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Jocelyn Hagen

Jocelyn Hagen composes music that has been described as “simply magical” (Fanfare Magazine) and “dramatic and deeply moving” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis/St. Paul). She is a pioneer in the field of composition, pushing the expectations of musicians and audiences with large-scale multimedia works, electro-acoustic music, dance, opera, and publishing. Her first forays into composition were via...

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We Are Here to Shine!

Name: We Are Here to Shine!
SKU: JH-C017
Availability: InStock

Jocelyn Hagen

This empowering piece for treble voices is rhythmic and full of color.

Difficulty: 4

Duration: 3-5 min.

JH-C017

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SSAA (div.) a cappella

Sometimes we need reassurances that it’s OK to be who we are. This work will invigorate your singers with confidence and joy.

Composer’s Notes

Writing empowering music for women to sing will always be one of my favorite compositional endeavors. I grew up listening to my mother and her two sisters singing in three-part harmony. They all had daughters around the same time, so from the age of ten or eleven I was singing in three-part harmony with my close cousins. Music for treble voices will always feel like home to me.

– Jocelyn Hagen

Text

Imagine you are the sky
Wake up a little cloudy
Shift from ink to orange to blue
More clouds? Less blue? More blue.
Whistle to the wind. Coax
The seas to dance—nothing wild today
Something rhythmic and steady
The syncopated music of you—
Still we won’t be able to look away.
How the birds sing. How the leafless
Branches sway. Pour golden light
Make it clear; you and me, we
Are made of weather. Today
We are here to shine.

– Julia Klatt Singer

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