SATB unaccompanied duration: 5’30”
The Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York has a “Poetry in Motion” series that puts posters of poetry in subway cars. I was on the 1 train on Manhattan’s West Side one day when I saw the poem “Heaven,” by Patrick Phillips. I was immediately captured by the simple beauty of Patrick’s poem, and the mystery of the first line, “It will be the past.” I loved his vision and thought immediately that I wanted to compose music for this poem. Mystery, joy, wonder.
“Heaven” is the winner of choral composition competitions sponsored by both the Manhattan Choral Ensemble and Georgia College.
“stunning, timeless, doable” — Deborah Simpkin King, Project:Encore
Heaven was premiered by the Manhattan Choral Ensemble, and has been performed by the Georgia College Max Noah SIngers & the University of Rhode Island Concert Choir
