for acapella SATB divisi choir

Winner of the 2007 Sorel Medallion Award Meciendo for SSAATTBB acapella choir TEXT: Meciendo El mar sus millares de olas---mece divino. Oyendo a los mares amantes---mezo a mi niño. El viento errabundo en la noche---mece los trigos. Oyendo a los vientos amantes---mezo a mi niño. Dios Padre sus miles de mundos---mece sin ruido. Sintiendo su mano en la sombra---mezo a mi niño. (Gabriela Mistral) Rocking The divine sea rocks its endless waves. Listening to the loving seas I rock my child. At night, the vagabond wind sways the wheat. Listening to the loving winds I rock my child. The Heavenly Father silently rocks thousands of worlds. Sensing His hand in the shadow, I rock my child. (Gabriela Mistral, translation by Maria Giachetti in Gabriela Mistral:  A Reader) YEAR: 2005 TEXT: Gabriela Mistral DURATION: 5 minutes COMMISSIONED BY: Harmonia Chamber Choir, Boulder, CO THEMES: nature (wind/waves), motherhood (mother/child), spirituality PERFORMANCE SUGGESTIONS: Spanish and English texts, nature-themed concert Get this score View score excerpt Now available on Navona Records A new collection of choral pieces recorded by Grammy-winning chamber choir, THE CROSSING. The collection includes my pieces, “Meciendo” and two movements from “Holy Waters.” To listen and purchase: https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6675/ New York Times Review:  5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now Dutch blog Nieuwe Noten:  The Crossing - Ways You Went/Meciendo Textura:  The Crossing: Meciendo PROGRAM NOTES: Meciendo is the winner of the 2007 Sorel Medallion, an international choral competition sponsored by the Sorel Organization.  Named in memory of pianist-prodigy, Claudette Sorel, the organization seeks to offer new opportunities for women musicians.  As a part of the award, Kirchoff’s Meciendo, was performed at an October 9 concert sung by Voices of Ascension, a mixed chorus of 40 professional vocalists directed by Dennis Keene and based in New York City.  The evening concert was held in Zankel Auditorium, one of three performing spaces within renowned Carnegie Hall. The text of Meciendo, Spanish for “rocking,” is from a poem by the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral.  Against a background of flowing, rhythmic chants that evoke fields of wheat waving in the wind, a solo soprano voice raises a lyrical contrast as she reflects on rocking her child in her arms.  Nine separate lines call and answer each other then meld into a single voice at the end. PREMIERE: Harmonia Chamber Choir April 22, 2006 The Journey Longmont, CO OTHER PERFORMANCES: Harmonia, April 23, 2006 The Academy Boulder, CO St. Martin’s Chamber Choir December 17, 2006 Broomfield Auditorium Broomfield, CO St. Martin’s Chamber Choir December 22, 2006 St. Elizabeth’s Church Denver, CO Metropolitan State College of Denver Concert Choir March 5, 2007 Denver, CO Voices of Ascension October 9, 2007 Carnegie Hall New York, NY Metropolitan State College of Denver Concert Choir January 25, 2008 Colorado Music Educators Association Conference Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan State College of Denver Concert Choir February 21, 2008 American Choral Directors Association Conference Kansas City, MO St. Martin’s Chamber Choir December 19, 2008 St. John's Episcopal Cathedral Denver, CO St. Martin’s Chamber Choir December 20, 2008 First Congregational Church Boulder, CO St. Martin’s Chamber Choir December 21, 2008 Augustana Lutheran Church Denver, CO Lamont Women's Chorus March 2, 2011 University of Denver Denver, CO