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Living with Squirrels

• Score: $3 (for reproduction rights; minimum purchase of 10 required; additional charge for hard copies)
• SATB chorus/piano
• Secular text (settings of texts about experiencing nature by New Hampshire poet Liz Ahl)
• 13:00
• Difficulty rating (1-5): 5
• Hear a performance of the work (New Hampshire Master Chorale, Dan Perkins, conductor)
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• Commissioned by the New Hampshire Master Chorale, Dan Perkins, Music Director
• Premiered by them on November 20, 2009
• The premiere performances constituted my “Report to the New Hampshire Community” as 2010 Individual Artist Fellow of the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts

During my Spring 2009 sabbatical, I was privileged to hear a reading of recent works by my friend and colleague Liz Ahl, poet and Chair of the English Department at Plymouth State University.   They were about her interactions with nature – specifically, her transition from a more urban existence to life in central New Hampshire.  When Dan Perkins asked me to write a new piece for a New Hampshire Master Chorale concert entitled Harvest & Home, Liz’s works sprang to mind immediately.  These settings are dedicated to Liz, Dan, and all of us who are, in the words of the New Hampshire Master Chorale’s motto, “creating our own culture in the woods of New Hampshire.”

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