for 3-Part Mixed Choir, Piano and Cello - 10'
Commissioned by American Composers Forum ChoralQuest Program.
Premiered May 12, 2012
Taloowa’ Chipota is a work composed for middle school aged chorus. The songs are reminiscent of traditional stomp dancing and are based on old Chickasaw melodies. Stomp dances begin at dusk and end at dawn. The first movement depicts the emerging sunlight of the morning. The second movement is full of abstracted textures emulating the shell shaking in stomp dances. The vocables have no translated meaning and are pronounced as in English.
I. Sunrise
II. Turtle Shells