Скачать или смотреть John Muehleisen (b. 1955) - Perplexed Music (2006)

Performed by Vox16, directed by Markdavin Obenza, at Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA on April 16, 2016.

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John Muehleisen’s music has been described as “imaginatively harmonized...beautifully realized...and brilliantly crafted.” He has been Composer-in-Residence for Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble almost continuously since 1996, for the Dale Warland Singers (2003–2004), and for Choral Arts (2011–2012). He has also received commissions from Conspirare, The Esoterics, Harvard Glee Club, Northwest Girlchoir, Seattle Girls’ Choir, Seattle Pro Musica, South Bend Chamber Singers, and Volti. More than 40 of his choral works have been recorded commercially, and his compositions have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. Awards include winning the 1988 Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition, Third Place in the 2013 American Prize in Professional Choral Composition, and the coveted Dale Warland Singers Commissioning Award for 2014. On April 30 and May 1, 2016 Anton Armstrong will lead the St. Olaf Choir and Magnum Chorum in performances of Pietà—John’s oratorio about compassion and mercy—in Minneapolis and Northfield, MN.

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Perplexed Music

AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO E. J.

EXPERIENCE, like a pale musician, holds
A dulcimer of patience in his hand,
Whence harmonies we cannot understand,
Of God’s will in His worlds, the strain unfolds
In sad, perplexed minors. Deathly colds
Fall on us while we hear and countermand
Our sanguine heart back from the fancy-land
With nightingales in visionary worlds.
We murmur,—‘Where is any certain tune
Or measured music, in such notes as these?’—
But angels, leaning from the golden seat,
Are not so minded; their fine ear hath won
The issue of completed cadences,
And, smiling down the stars, they whisper— SWEET.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning