Charles Turner

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Four rather serene homophonic settings of English poetry:
1) It Was a Beauty That I Saw - Ben Jonson
2) Rose-Cheek'd Laura, Come - Thomas Campion
3) Threnos from The Phoenix and the Turtle - William Shakespeare
4) Ask Me No More - Thoma Carew

Four Choral Songs

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The text is in English, a poem of the apocalypse, written by the composer. Duration circa 12 minutes. The music attempts to dramatize the text using conventional and perhaps unconventional word-painting.

the end of all our kingdoms

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Duration: 3' 00"
The text is a poem by Else Lasker-Schuler, translated into English and slightly modified by the composer.

All the Blossoms

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The text of this piece is a series of words and phrases that describe or imagine early childhood from the standpoint of the child. The music becomes a hazy, six-voice texture, which evokes the haziness of memory. Written for Triad: Boston's Choral Collective.

Sing Child

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Duration: ca. 16' 10"
Eight settings of poems (in English) by the composer, to be performed as an unbroken sequence.
The texts and music attempt to express (directly or indirectly) the joy of simply being alive.

What Carnival

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Duration: ca. 17 minutes
Text is a rather surrealistic poem in Italian, written by the composer.
The music is at times funereal, nocturnal, cheerful, and capricious.

Per il rinoceronte nero

I composed Drifting Figures' in 2019 for the Triad Choir of Boston, a choral collective in which I sang bass, conducted, and helped organize.
The text is a group of short phrases taken from Walt Whitman's poem Sea-Drift.' The fragments of text are set to fragments of melody which repeatedly appear in all of the parts. The result is a shifting mass of sound, my attempt to evoke the sea with voices.
Duration ca. 2' 30"

Drifting Figures

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This piece was composed during the first part of the Covid pandemic, when choral groups could not meet in person. Each performer sings/plays through the simple modal melody twice, at their own speed. 

When my choral group, Triad, performed the piece, each singer and instrumentalist recorded herself performing the piece at her own speed, and I then mixed down the multitracked recordings. The result is rather like a crowd murmuring in a dream.

Later, members of the C4 choir of New York performed the piece live, using a networked audio technology. The piece certainly can be performed live with all singers and instruments in the same room. The text is a fragment from the works of philosopher George Berkeley, 1685-1753.

Berkeley Denies

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A setting of the complete antiphon Salve Regina mater misericordiae for unaccompanied choir. The musical setting uses the modern plainchant throughout, though frequently embellished or submerged into the choral texture. Composed for Capella Alamire, Peter Urquhart, director.

Salve Regina

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