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Joan Szymko
Joan Szymko is widely regarded as an outstanding composer of choral music in America today. With a catalog of over 100 choral works in print, her music is sung regularly at choral festivals and competitions across North America and abroad and for nearly two decades has been heard on stage or in sessions at every...
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Todo o Meu Ser (SATB)
Has its roots with the Inuit who are indigenous peoples of the North American Arctic.
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Todo o Meu Ser
SATB with optional solo, conga drum, pandeiro, and clave
“Todo o Meu Ser” is about the unity of music and self… She’s such a wonderfully virile and vibrant composer and all of her music has this pertinent rhythmic aspect that enlivens all of the words.” — Charles Bruffy, director Phoenix Chorale
Text
Portugese
Não sei dizer-te quantas cançoes eu canto
Todo o meu ser é uma canção
E eu quanto enquanto respiro
Translation:
How many songs I have I cannot tell you.
All my being is a song,
and I sing as I draw breath.
– quote from Inuit shaman, Orpingalik
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