Student Composer Features
As mentioned in our last blog post, leading up to this Wednesday's Student Composer Concert (tomorrow) we thought we would start a new tradition: Student Composer Features! The aim of these blog posts is to help people get to know our talented student composers and to give them a chance to talk about their pieces.
Today's feature: Stephanie Orlando!
Today's feature: Stephanie Orlando!
Stephanie Orlando, My Verse Shall Stand
Tell us about the text you set and why you chose it.
"This past summer, I had the opportunity to work for a professional choral group who specialized in performing early music. While working with the choir I was exposed to many different styles of music from the Renaissance period. Compositionally, I find these styles of music quite fascinating and charming, and so I composed My Verse Shall Stand to draw on the influences of these styles. Arranged for SATB, my piece explores a more contrapuntal approach to choral writing, modal harmonies and word painting."
Tell us a bit about your piece in this Wednesday's Student Composer concert and why you decided to write it.
"I have always been an admirer of William Shakespeare, and chose to set his sonnet 60. One of the major themes of this sonnet is mortality. Time gives the gift of life, only to take away with death. No living things can out stand time. Except poetry, through which Shakespeare has immortalized his message: 'And yet to times my verse shall stand'. Likewise, music is another art form which stands through time."
A huge thanks to Stephanie for telling us about My Verse Shall Stand, which will be premiering at the Student Composer Concert this Wednesday (tomorrow), November 19th at 8pm in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall at Wilfrid Laurier University. Come out and hear Stephanie's piece as well as new compositions by many other Laurier student composers! Join the Facebook event here.
Stephanie's website: http://www.stephanieorlando.ca/
Stephanie's website: http://www.stephanieorlando.ca/