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Jeffrey Derus

Jeffrey Derus is an American composer, producer, and musician. His music has gained a worldwide presence with commissions and performances from ensembles such as Choral Arts Initiative, INSPIRARE, Constellation Men’s Ensemble, Inversion Ensemble, KC VITAS, the Nova Scotia Choral Federation, Temple University, and Vanguard University. Hailed as “powerful, dramatic, lucid” (Sonograma Magazine) and “elegant” (Voice...

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I Shall Not Care

Name: I Shall Not Care
SKU: CB-IShallNotCare
Availability: InStock

Jeffrey Derus

Discovering that we will find our peace through our passing from this world to the next.

Difficulty: 5

Duration: 3-5 min.

CB-IShallNotCare

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SATB Chorus with Divisi & Treble Soli

Winner of the Magpies and Ravens Emerging Composer Competition, this piece received its world premiere with Director Maza Zimmerman and the Afternoon Singers. “I Shall Not Care” is a moving piece about how we will be at peace with everything once we have passed on. Sara Teasdale paints a setting in this poem depicting the beautiful nature our loved ones left behind get to experience in that moment, but nothing compares to the rest and tranquility one feels after death. This work offers two beautiful treble solos along with a third solo arriving at the second climax. The chorus has moments of tense harmonics, flowing textures, and soaring vocal lines. Any concert themed around nature, life and death, or spring would be enhanced by this centerpiece.