Aphorism (2002)

for SATB Chorus & Piano

Duration: 2 minutes

Premiere: March 2001, Eastman Chorale (Rochester, NY)

Chorus: SATB

Instrumentation: pf

Availability: Not available.

Text: by Sappho

Program Notes

This short work for chorus and piano is an arrangement of the second song from Three Aphorisms for Soprano and Piano. I wanted to capture the spaciousness of Sappho’s brief lines in the spare choral writing and in the piano’s declamations.