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TTBB a cappella chorus with soli

“Home” illuminates the moment when a mother is comforting their child by singing softly to them. This child is in distress, “restless and angry in the darkness.” With no conclusion to this poem, I wanted to musically create one that ensures hope for more moments like this with all children, all people. As we grow older, we see the effects of our childhood. If not in the ways we were cared for, then in what we lived through at a young age. I pulled on a moment I often lean on in my adulthood; the moments of my own mother singing to me as a child. Now knowing what her singing gave to me all those years ago, I too “wish the world had more of:” this.