Away in a Manger for SATB a capella
(2018)
Carlos Cordero
S A
T B
b & b bb ? bb b b
soprano
˙ tenor
˙
˙ ˙
alto
˙ bass
˙
www.composercordero.com ©Cordero, 2018. All rights reserved.
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ABOUT THE WORK
The vulnerability of this text is one I wanted to express in my music. Setting Away in a Manger has been an adventure of understanding how fragile can we be if we let it happen. It reminds me of the love that family and friends share during the holidays, asking the little Lord Jesus to keep us safe and the ones around us.
ABOUT THE COMPOSER Carlos (b. 1992), recent University of Houston Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy of Rome, is an award winner composer of several international competitions, including the International Choral Composition Competition Japan 2018 (Ave, Regina Coelorum); Inversion Ensemble’s Emerging Composer Competition (Nada Te Turbe); Vox Populi winner and Special Mention in the I International Choral Composition Competition Alberto Grau (Nada Te Turbe); The Uncommon Music
Festival
Choral
Composition
Competition
(Night
Meadow), as well as Chorus Austin 2017 Young Composers Competition (Seven Seconds of Love). His pieces have been performed internationally, including, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Hungary, London, USA, UK, and Venezuela. Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Carlos is currently residing in Houston, Texas where is finishing his Master of Music in Composition at University of Houston, Moores School of Music, with Dr. David Ashley White as his current professor. Cordero is a former singer with Moores School of Music’s Concert Chorale under the direction of Dr. Betsy Cook Weber, winning the 28th Béla Bartók International Choral Competition. Former Choral Conductor, and Music Educator, at El Sistema, Carlos holds a B.M. from Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta (UNICA, 2015), and a Specialization in Composition (UNICA, 2017).
With much love to Dr. David Ashley White.
Away in a Manger Mixed Choir a cappella
Carlos Cordero (b. 1992)
Traditional Carol
Tenderly, molto rubato q = c 72
A S A
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chil - drem
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ask
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to
stay,
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and
love
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me,
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in
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care
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take
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p
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and
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53
53
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us
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32 ˙˙
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with
Thee
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heav - en,
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6
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Austin August 2018. 3' 20''