Source Song Festival Three-Year History of Commissions & Music Programming *information included are the last three in-person festivals (‘17, ’18, & ’19). The 2020 Festival included re-imagined video event of archival audio from 2019 OpenSource Concert, and the launch of ‘re:Source’, a database of all works commissioned by Source Song Festival.
Source Song Festival Commissions Song Cycles Carol Barnett
Longing for Home
2018
(five-song cycle)
Libby Larsen
Pharaoh Songs
2017
(six-song cycle)
David Evan Thomas
To Joy
2017
(fourteen-song cycle)
Individual Songs Prince / arr. Liam Moore Carol Barnett Libby Larsen
“Baby” “Blessing” “Blessing”
2019 2019 2019
Michael Betz Ryan Johnston Kelly Krebs Chris Koza Chris Koza Liam Moore Martha Helen Schmidt Scott Senko Justin Anthony Spenner Roger Towler Timothy C. Takach
“A Purple Unraveling” “Evensong” “Whiteout” “Last One Up” “Stand Clear” “Winter and Construction” “Lonely” “Primordial Drink” “In Normandie” “The River Runs Near” “Mantra”
2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018
Source Song Festival Non-Commissioned Premieres Premiered by Local Professionals Emily Boyajian Micah Dombrower Stanford Felix Linda Kachelmeier Kelly Krebs Isaac Lovdahl Liam Moore Greg Schaffner Martha Helen Schmidt Simon Sperl Timothy C. Takach Jeremy Walker J. David Moore
“Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” “Christmas Music” “Trunken müssen wir alle sein!” “La Promesse” “I GOT THE HOTS FOR MOMMA” “How Close I’d Love to Be” “You Seem Most Full” “Spheksophobia” “Mediterranean Suns” “Why Am I Alone?” “Leave a Comment” “Forest Green”
2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
“Outside Work”
2019
Justin Rubin Ian A. Cook Catherine Dalton Jake Endres Kelly Krebs Benjamin Emory Larson Isaac Lovdahl Jonathan Tauscheck Jeremy Walker Jake Endres William Kenlon Benjamin Emory Larson Michael Maiorana Liam Moore Jason Mulligan Daniel Nass Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei Scott Senko Timothy C. Takach Joshua Yoshi Weinberg Dominick Argento Jonathan Posthuma
“February” “Amor é um fogo que arde” “You Have to Stand There” “The Fugue of Love” “Cliff Notes from Your Mother on Leaving Home” “An American Joke” “There, There is a Spring in Me (For Katie)” “What should I say?” “The Song of the Wandering Aengus”
2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019
“Bitter Cold” “The Yellow Room” “The Lesson” “Enivrez-vous” “Crepescule” “The Defeat of Youth” “The Antediluvians Were All Very Sober” “Delbaré” “the beginning of things” “How to Triumph Like a Girl” “1888”
2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018
“Daisies” The Voices of the City
2017 2017
(five-song cycle)
Source Song Festival American Premieres “L’Horloge” “Il était unefeuille – Hommage to Noël Lee” “Paroles peintes” “Berceuse pour “La Tragédie de la mort””
Noël Lee Jeff Cohen Phillippe Hersent Claude Debussy
2018 2018 2018 2018
Music by Composer Institute Composers, Performed by Local Professionals (MNSong) Samuel Beebe Emily Boyajian Dorian Cunningham Eric Snyder Jonathan Tauscheck Griffin Candey Aaron Israel Levin Tristan Zaba Griffin Candey Seamus Hubbard Flynn Jason Squinobal Martha Helen Schmidt Steven Serpa
“The Die was Already Cast” Songs on Poems of Robert Frost “À Travers Une Nuit Sans Repose” Ulysses Four Songs fox songs “Like That Time” Études for a Dying Race
2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019
Hard Stones Ryokan Songs The Way of Things Three Songs Canciónes de desamor
2018 2018 2018 2018 2018
“Survive” “If I” “A Math Problem from the Real World” Preludes Songs from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Benjamin Fraser A Child’s Garden of Verses Come Up From the Fields, Father Three Songs of the Librarian
Jason Stutzman Gala Flagello Ryan Johnston Kevin J. Kelly Kelly Krebs Kyle Lewis Jason Mulligan Dawn Sonntag Robert Strobel
2018 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017
Music by Living Local Composers, Performed by MNDuo Students Abbie Betinis Abbie Betinis Linda Tutas Haugen Edie Hill Edie Hill Timothy C. Takach David Evan Thomas David Evan Thomas
All Things Live “The Waking” Garland Songs “Ballads for Sale” “Between the Limbs, Music” “How to Triumph Like a Girl” “Du bist die Ruh” “Music Speaks”
2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019
Catherine Dalton Jocelyn Hagen Jocelyn Hagen Linda Tutas Haugen Edie Hill Linda Kachelmeier David Evan Thomas
“Turning into April” “To My Daughter, After a Fight” “The Flower of the Field” “Gjendine’s Lullaby” “The Book of Hungers” I Give Voice to My Mother “The Wings of the Morning”
2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018
“Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight” “Ophelie” “Unwissend vor den Himmel” “The Prayer Wind” Songs of Fields and Prairies “Ballads for Sale” Among the Pines “El Corazón Humano”
2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017
Abbie Betinis Abbie Betinis Abbie Betinis Abbie Betinis Jocelyn Hagen Edie Hill Linda Kachelmeier Reynaldo Moya
Additional New Music Programmed & Performed by Guest Artists James Kallembach Andre Previn Libby Larsen Leslie Uyeda Scott Wheeler Andrew Staniland Roberto Sierra Andrew Staniland
Weightless Dreams (2018) Sallie Chisum remembers Billy the Kid (1995) Cowboy Songs (1979) “Uvavnuk: The Great Sea” (2007) Wasting the Night (1990) Execution Songs (2013) Décimas (2013) Peter Quince at the Clavier (2008)
2019 2019 2019 2018 2018 2018 2018 2017