Missa Brevis for a cappella SATB Choir - I. Kyrie Eleison (with score) by Keane Southard

Missa Brevis for a cappella SATB Choir (2017-19) - I. Kyrie Eleison, by Keane Southard.

Finalist in the 2019 Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest.

Premiered March 23, 2019 by the East Lyme High School Choir (CT), Anthony Maiese-conductor, at the Ithaca College Choral Composition Festival, Ithaca, NY.

Program notes:

Work on my Missa Brevis began with the “Kyrie Eleison” movement which was composed in three days in mid-December of 2017, excepting a few preliminary sketches made earlier that year. It originally was planned to be a stand-alone movement, but I later decided to add more movements to make a “Missa Brevis” (not a complete mass because I have left out the “Credo”). The other three movements were written in fall and early winter of 2018 with the “Gloria” completed a few days into 2019.

The “Kyrie” deals with topic of mercy and compassion, which is something I have been thinking about a lot during the past few tumultuous years for my country and the greater world. I firmly believe that each of us needs to cultivate more mercy and compassion for all other beings if we are to have a brighter, better, and happier future. This movement is a meditation on these oftentimes overlooked virtues.

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