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Dead Fires Anthology

$20.00

Solo | Vocal | Anthology

Expected Availability Spring 2023

Program Note:

The Dead Fires Anthology is a zine comprised of solo unaccompanied/self-accompanied works for voice composed during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Each piece was composed for a specific singer. I have chosen to name this zine after my setting of Jesse Redmon Fauset’s Dead Fires because of the depth of both that collaboration and how many of us had a fire in our belly at the beginning of 2020 that turned to embers, much like dead fires. You can learn more about the pieces and singers I wrote for below. There will be 8 songs in total, which includes texts by myself, Carolyn Quick, and Jesse Redmon Fauset.  A copy of Vulnerability will be available on pre-order.

Vulnerability | Soprano Stephanie Lamprea

Twilight Blooming | Soprano Sofie Zane

Stillness | Soprano Marguerite McKean

Dead Fires | Composer/Soprano/Lyricist Carolyn Quick

There is Frost | Composer/Soprano Jordan Daniels

Centering | Composer/Soprano Mavis MacNeil

“Riots” | Actor/Soprano Erin Zelazny

Untitled | Composer/Vocalist Drew Swatosh

Genre

Art Song, Self-Accompanied, Unaccompanied

Difficulty Level

Advanced

Voice Type

High Voice

Instruments

Voice

Composers

Drew Swatosh

Medium

Digital, Print