YOUR SOUL IS SONG - Jake Runestad

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JR0074 – RUNESTAD: YOUR SOUL IS SONG

Jake Runestad

YOUR SOUL IS SONG SATB choir & piano

Music jakerunestad.com


Duration ca. 4:30

Text Sing! When the seams burst, and the traps ensnare, and your body breaks, and the light f lees– Sing then! For then, your soul is song. – Germán Aguilar

About the Work When Germán Aguilar passed away unexpectedly in the summer of 2014, it was a huge loss to our world. Germán had a warm, kind personalit y and a love for life, teaching, and the people around him. He was a choral conductor, had a beautiful tenor voice, and was deeply engaged in the music communit y. After a difficult time in his life, Germán wrote this poem – a plea to the power of song and weathering the storms of life. Germán died of a massive aneurism in the middle of a concert, while he was singing, and I can’t move beyond that image and the meaning it brings to these words. Life is not easy, and is never perfect, but there is so much beaut y and joy to be found in song.

About the Composer Considered “one of the best of the younger American composers” (Chicago Tribune), award-winning composer and conductor Jake Runestad has received commissions and performances from leading ensembles and organizations such as Voces8, Washington National Opera, the Philippine Madrigal Singers, the Netherlands Radio Choir, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Seraphic Fire, the Dallas Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, the Pacific Chorale, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and a forthcoming allRunestad album from Grammy-winning Conspirare. In 2019, Jake became one of the youngest composers ever awarded the prestigious Raymond C. Brock commission by the American Choral Directors Association. Dubbed a “choral rockstar” by American Public Media, Jake is one of the most frequently performed composers in the world and has traveled to work with ensembles on all but one continent. Jake Runestad holds a Master’s degree in composition from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins Universit y where he studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts. Learn more at: JakeRunestad.com


Commissioned by Choirs of America for a 2019 world premiere at Carnegie Hall

YOUR SOUL IS SONG

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6

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° b œ & 41

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then!

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8

° bœ & 45

SA

mf

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° b œ & 49

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° b ˙ & b˙ 57

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° b œ & 65

SA

Sing

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14

° b˙ & ˙ 69

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