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Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander (Seafarer Press)
How To Sing Like a Planet (SATB)
A genre-defying “instruction manual,” as whimsical and varied as the singing planet which inspired it.
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How to Sing Like a Planet
SATB, piano
This musical “instruction manual” is as whimsical and varied as the singing planet which inspired it.
This genre-defying showpiece evokes both the “ethereal” and the “grooving”, offering pieces of wisdom of humor, humility and common sense. A prominent piano part undergirds this colorful romp, requiring a sensitive and solid accompanist. (Commissioned by Michigan Youth Chamber Singers, Eugene Rogers conductor)
Composer’s Notes
Given a “no-strings attached” commission, 60 talented middle school boys, a solid accompanist, and one heck of a dynamic conductor, what’s a composer to do? Well, after she does a little happy dance, she thinks outside the box! Inspired by Mark Morford’s electric description of the music that the earth makes just by being itself, I wrote and set to music a set of instructions for those of us who might wish to emulate our planet’s humming and thrumming joy.
– Elizabeth Alexander
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“Scientists now say the planet itself is generating a…kind of music, huge, swirling loops of sound, a song so strange you can’t really fathom it, so low it can’t be heard by human ears…”
– Mark Morford, from “How To Sing Like a Planet,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4/23/2008
Let everything unfold in its own time.
Accept what’s beyond your control.
Revel in simple harmonic motion.
Turn. Rotate.
Get charged up.
Be weak.
Be strong.
Don’t fight friction.
Vibrate sympathetically.
Don’t be afraid to get into a groove.
Let gravity have its way with you.
Revolve around something luminous.
Wheel, whirl,
Slide, collide,
Circle, cycle,
Amble, gambol,
Resonate, radiate,
Innovate, renovate,
Oscillate, fluctuate, circumnavigate, flow.
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