Ethan Soledad
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A Thing That Wants Virginia (2024) for mezzo-soprano and piano [Score Video]
A Thing That Wants Virginia (2024) for mezzo-soprano and piano.
Commissioned by the Cincinnati Song Initiative and the National Association for Teachers of Singing (NATS) with major support from Lori Laitman.
Performers:
Natasha Naik, mezzo-soprano
Parker Konkle, piano
Excerpt of letter by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Thursday, January 21, 1926.
Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of The Beneficiaries of the Estate of Vita Sackville-West. Copyright © Vita Sackville-West
“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone:
I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your undumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it should lose a little of its reality. I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any more by giving myself away like this - But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.
You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. But you have broken down my defenses. And I don’t really resent it.”
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In effect it is this: that I love you (for SATB choir and piano) (2024) - Ethan Soledad [Score]
มุมมอง 3.3Kหลายเดือนก่อน
Premiered and commissioned by the Young New Yorkers' Chorus, conductor Alex Canovas as part of its Competition for Young Composers 2024. This piece is inspired by a love letter written by renowned WWI poet Wilfred Owen to his colonel, mentor, and fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon. Both literary legends were known for their raw depictions of the war in their poetry with Sassoon serving as a major in...
In effect it is this: that I love you (for piano trio) (2021) - Ethan Soledad [Score Video]
มุมมอง 1932 หลายเดือนก่อน
For piano trio. Composed for the Etchings Festival 2021 hosted by ECCE Ensemble. Violin: Natalie Boberg Cello: Issei Herr Piano: Geoffrey Burleson Audio and Video: Stuart Breczinski Program Notes: This piece is inspired by a love letter written by renowned WWI poet Wilfred Owen to his colonel, mentor, and fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon. Both literary legends were known for their raw depictions o...
In effect it is this: that I love you (2023) (art song) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 421ปีที่แล้ว
Art song for tenor and piano quintet (2 violins, viola, cello, and piano). Premiered in Hirsch Hall of Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, Composers Forum Concert, April 15th 2023. Performers: Collin LaHood, tenor Elise Haukenes and Hannah Corbett, violins Julia Kirk, viola Nathan Hsu, cello Anna-Sofia Botti, piano Program Note This song is based on a love letter written by renowned WWI...
Intrusive Thoughts (2023) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 324ปีที่แล้ว
Intrusive Thoughts (2023), version for 12 instruments, performed by the Hear & Now Ensemble at Rice University, Shepherd School of Music and conducted by the iconic, the legendary, the irreplaceable Oliver Dubon. Original version for dectet commissioned by the Albany Symphony (NY) as part of the Orchestrating in the 21st Century Workshop. An intrusive thought is an unwelcome, involuntary though...
Dreams and Nightmares (2022) - Ethan Soledad [Score Video]
มุมมอง 1.6Kปีที่แล้ว
For pierrot ensemble. Commissioned by the 2022 Impulse New Music Festival for the Brightwork Ensemble. Sarah Wass, flute Brian Walsh, clarinet Shalini Vijayan, violin Joo Lee, cello Aron Kallay, piano Program Notes Whenever I hear the word nightmare, I often associate it with being chased around by demons or being part of some kind of wild apocalyptic scenario, but the nightmares that I find th...
Dulce et Decorum est (2020) - Ethan Soledad [Score Video]
มุมมอง 17Kปีที่แล้ว
For SATB choir a capella with divisi. Premiered and performed live by Choral Arts Initiative as part of the PREMIERE| Project Festival 2022. Brandon Elliott, Artistic Director. Connor Scott, Conductor. Program Notes: One of Wilfred Owen’s most famous works, the text depicts the horrific scene of a WWI soldier experiencing the effects of chlorine gas in excruciating detail. Upon first reading th...
I Like For You To Be Still (2019) - Ethan Soledad [Score Video]
มุมมอง 3.6K2 ปีที่แล้ว
For SATB choir and piano. Commissioned for and performed by the Rose Singers from Coral Reef High School at the 2022 ACDA Southern Region Conference in Raleigh, NC. Conducted by Shanpatrick Davis. Accompanied by Diego Villacrez. www.jwpepper.com/I-Like-For-You-To-Be-Still/11565938.item
Integrity (2021) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 3112 ปีที่แล้ว
Performed by Fear No Music as part of the Oregon Bach Festival Composer Symposium 2021 (Project #1: Social and Racial Justice) Amelia Lukas, flute James Shields, clarinet/bass clarinet Keiko Araki, violin Emily Cole, violin Kenji Bunch, viola Nancy Ives, cello Monica Ohuchi, piano Norman Huynh, conductor Program Notes This piece explores the idea of speaking up against racism and injustice and ...
When I Rise Up (2021) - Ethan Soledad [Score Video]
มุมมอง 2.2K2 ปีที่แล้ว
For SATB choir, solo cello, and piano. Winner of the Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition 2021. Recorded by True Concord Voices and Chamber Players as part of "The Trailblazers" concert series on April 15, 2021. "When I Rise Up." Text by Georgia Douglas Johnson - 1880-1966 When I rise up above the earth, And look down on the things that fetter me, I beat my wings upon the air, Or tranq...
In effect it is this: that I love you (2021) (piano trio) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 5322 ปีที่แล้ว
For piano trio. Composed for the Etchings Festival 2021 hosted by ECCE Ensemble. Violin: Natalie Boberg Cello: Issei Herr Piano: Geoffrey Burleson Audio and Video: Stuart Breczinski Program Notes: This piece is inspired by a love letter written by renowned WWI poet Wilfred Owen to his colonel, mentor, and fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon. Both literary legends were known for their raw depictions o...
Vitriol (2021) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 5032 ปีที่แล้ว
For string quartet. Composed for the Beo String Quartet as part of the Charlotte New Music Festival 2021. Violin I: Aviva Hakanoglu Violin II: Jason Neukom Viola: Sean Neukom Cello: Ryan Ash Program Notes: Jealousy is a disease, and some may describe me as being patient zero. This piece explores the seething resentment brought upon by intense jealousy as represented by the slowly developing tex...
Come as you are (2021) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 2622 ปีที่แล้ว
For cello and two sopranos. Composed for Julian Gau (cello), Zoe Marie Hart (soprano 1), and Sarah Richards (soprano 2) as part of zFest 2021. Audio Engineer: Luke Damrosch 0:00 Prelude: l(a (a leaf falls on loneliness) 3:10 Come as you are Program Notes: This piece is about finding one's people. The journey of finding a place of belonging and understanding and building friendships with those w...
When I Rise Up (2021) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 7103 ปีที่แล้ว
For SATB choir, solo cello, and piano. Winner of the Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition 2021. Recorded by True Concord Voices and Chamber Players as part of "The Trailblazers" concert series on April 15, 2021. "When I Rise Up." Text by Georgia Douglas Johnson - 1880-1966 When I rise up above the earth, And look down on the things that fetter me, I beat my wings upon the air, Or tranq...
Salome (solo violin) (2019) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 3513 ปีที่แล้ว
Performed by Claudia Holm Recorded by FSU Society of Composers 4/10/2020 Program notes: This piece was written in 2019 during the Curtis Institute's Young Artist Summer Program in composition and later revised during the summer of 2020. It takes inspiration from the character of Salome and Richard Strauss' opera by the same name.
Stillness (2020) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 3843 ปีที่แล้ว
Stillness (2020) - Ethan Soledad
Violin, Violin (2020) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 2843 ปีที่แล้ว
Violin, Violin (2020) - Ethan Soledad
Songs of Love and Death (2019) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 4473 ปีที่แล้ว
Songs of Love and Death (2019) - Ethan Soledad
Two Short Movements for Solo Marimba (2020) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 3283 ปีที่แล้ว
Two Short Movements for Solo Marimba (2020) - Ethan Soledad
Venting - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 1763 ปีที่แล้ว
Venting - Ethan Soledad
Songs of Love and Death: No. 1 and 2, You who never arrived, You Beloved - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 1963 ปีที่แล้ว
Songs of Love and Death: No. 1 and 2, You who never arrived, You Beloved - Ethan Soledad
Salome for string quartet (2019) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 2534 ปีที่แล้ว
Salome for string quartet (2019) - Ethan Soledad
From Dusk Till Dawn (2019) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 3354 ปีที่แล้ว
From Dusk Till Dawn (2019) - Ethan Soledad
The Beauty of Cosmic Things (2018) - Ethan Soledad
มุมมอง 6454 ปีที่แล้ว
The Beauty of Cosmic Things (2018) - Ethan Soledad
The Cross of Snow (2017) - Ethan Soledad (World Premiere)
มุมมอง 3015 ปีที่แล้ว
The Cross of Snow (2017) - Ethan Soledad (World Premiere)

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  • @dvs4xn
    @dvs4xn 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    this is so incredible i have watched all of your scores and i cant get enough, i wish to write as well as you

  • @danielk.7221
    @danielk.7221 วันที่ผ่านมา

    all i can say after listening to this is wow. this is so incredible

  • @COTDBroski
    @COTDBroski 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very interesting harmonies! Awesome job man

  • @JRROGERS2
    @JRROGERS2 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Truly passionate and exquisitely crafted. Words really don't do it justice. 🙌

  • @doostan193
    @doostan193 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is such an interesting adaptation of the art song!

  • @CatherineMagarino
    @CatherineMagarino 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love your exquisite attention to detail

  • @CatherineMagarino
    @CatherineMagarino 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love it sm

  • @darushkii
    @darushkii 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Stunningly beautiful, and so well developed. Congratulations!

  • @DylanTranMusic
    @DylanTranMusic 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Damn 😢

  • @the-cccc
    @the-cccc หลายเดือนก่อน

    So beautiful!

  • @justinharvey8039
    @justinharvey8039 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm obsessed this is beautiful

  • @maizie5590
    @maizie5590 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Only on the last line did I recognize the words and was able to put my finger on where I’ve heard it before. This came up in my recommended and is BEYOND. I mean this puts me at a complete loss for words. Absolute powerhouse of a piece.

  • @nathanmartin3779
    @nathanmartin3779 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a gorgeous piece, and I am so, so very happy that I came across your work. You are making the world a more beautiful place Mr. Soleded. Cheers.

  • @wequik
    @wequik 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No words! Magistral

  • @OurSeaBee
    @OurSeaBee 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    At risk of being pedantic, I doubt Owen wrote the poem with Italianate Latin pronunciation in mind. He's more likely to have used insular English pronunciation.

  • @peterjrmoore3941
    @peterjrmoore3941 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wow !

  • @timalgate3709
    @timalgate3709 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This gives Raua Needmine vibes but is significantly more accessible than that work. Wonderful composition, adding it to my shortlist of pieces to consider for my high school chamber choir for festival season.

  • @brycezimmerman8225
    @brycezimmerman8225 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What would it take you to write a work for solo countertenor!? 😊

  • @oscargill423
    @oscargill423 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know a piece is good when I like react it without realising.

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You don't know when a piece is good, ever.

    • @oscargill423
      @oscargill423 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Whatismusic123 I can't tell if this is a philosophical musing or an insult to my music taste, and either way, please elaborate.

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@oscargill423 insult to your music understanding

    • @oscargill423
      @oscargill423 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Whatismusic123 Music is subjective and no one has any right to tell anyone that their music taste is wrong or bad. Your turn.

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@oscargill423 again, this is not about your taste in music, noone cares about your taste in music. Your understanding of music is what's horrid. Music isn't subjective, just because your taste in it is.

  • @gabrielbaker7250
    @gabrielbaker7250 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is staggering. i see a lot of SATB youtube videos, and they tend to blur together, but not this. such distinction, creativity, unexpected choices, music serves text so well. and you wrote this when you were 20? that's the silliest part: to have such a unique, interesting, thoughtful style at that age is insane. i'm obsessed with this piece. well done

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 ปีที่แล้ว

      Uniqueness is the easiest part of being a composer, literally anyone can be "unique" if they want to. The challenge comes in making good, coherent music along the way, which they fail to.

    • @gabrielbaker7250
      @gabrielbaker7250 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Whatismusic123 i disagree with everything you’re saying. uniqueness CAN be the easiest part, but finding your voice can be very difficult. he has an established style at a young age that most don’t have yet

  • @moimeme6533
    @moimeme6533 ปีที่แล้ว

    marvelous, viscerally musical experience and the execution of a challenging score by this ensemble, wow, superb!

  • @jenniferlamont7460
    @jenniferlamont7460 ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely stunning and gut-wrenching. Bravo, Ethan! I will be recommending every choir director I know to listen to this piece.

  • @vichernandezii
    @vichernandezii ปีที่แล้ว

    High schoolers did this?

  • @TAP7a
    @TAP7a ปีที่แล้ว

    Now this is what good remembrance is. Visceral. Horrifying. Communicating the intense horror like nothing seen on the continent before, sending a generation of boys into the meat grinder to massage the egos of a few heads of state. Never. Again.

  • @Videogamehero67
    @Videogamehero67 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is honestly one of the best choir pieces I have ever heard. Utterly beautiful.

  • @TheMitzhael
    @TheMitzhael ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing

  • @susannestechow
    @susannestechow ปีที่แล้ว

    Music against war.

  • @jaynelsestuen9038
    @jaynelsestuen9038 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow. I am dumbstruck.

  • @collinmccookcomposer
    @collinmccookcomposer ปีที่แล้ว

    Shocking. This piece made me cry with its pain and suffering. Loved every moment

  • @rhonetalsma3089
    @rhonetalsma3089 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was listening to this on my TV and around 1:40 in I stopped it and put it on my phone with headphones lol...knew I was in for something special and this didn't disappoint. This is really exquisite and also totally fearless. The relentless dissonance & use of homophony to basically attack the ear with sound at key parts of the poem is really thoughtful and effective. I would be afraid to sing this but imagine the satisfaction of pulling it off...this choir was up to the challenge and what a reckoning it is. I sometimes struggle to figure out how to convey sadness, disgust or other negative emotions in my own music and this has given me a lot to think about. Amazing work!

  • @jaymackie1164
    @jaymackie1164 ปีที่แล้ว

    Exquisitely polished. A moving and unique work capturing this bleak classic poem. Quite simply an incredible new choral work which will be a real tour de force for choirs seeking very challenging and highly dynamic new a capella repertoire. This is the kind of piece you want to go back and listen to again and again. Breathtaking performance.

  • @DTM.
    @DTM. ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing. I would love to sing this piece!

  • @sunsp0t347
    @sunsp0t347 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not even 30 seconds into this, and I am obsessed with it. Competition winner music, and an overall blessing.

  • @divisix024
    @divisix024 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a visceral piece! The oppressive horrendous vibes are impressive

  • @Zoorty_
    @Zoorty_ ปีที่แล้ว

    Usually not really a fan of contemporary classical music. But this, this is a gem. This piece shows perfectly how technical extensions should be used, when composing with them. Bravo

  • @zerois2801
    @zerois2801 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow

  • @RHSChoirsSD
    @RHSChoirsSD ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely incredible. Vivid and corporeal, Ethan. Bravo! And well done to the choir. It's a difficult piece to have performed so well. Stunning all around

  • @Whatismusic123
    @Whatismusic123 ปีที่แล้ว

    repetetive and lacking in progression

    • @ethansoledad7645
      @ethansoledad7645 ปีที่แล้ว

      name checks out

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ethansoledad7645 it does, because I have the right to ask someone like you that question.

    • @ethansoledad7645
      @ethansoledad7645 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Whatismusic123 aww thank you!

    • @sneddypie
      @sneddypie ปีที่แล้ว

      rachmaninoff is probably too modernist for you

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sneddypie no, he's not, because atleast rachmaninoff understood music and made *music*

  • @Whatismusic123
    @Whatismusic123 ปีที่แล้ว

    incredibly pretentious description aswell. learn music, not noise.

    • @ethansoledad7645
      @ethansoledad7645 ปีที่แล้ว

      no u

    • @sneddypie
      @sneddypie ปีที่แล้ว

      coep

    • @harrisonjcollins
      @harrisonjcollins ปีที่แล้ว

      Look who’s talking about being pretentious-Ethan has written an excellently and thoughtfully crafted work and description and here you come with a completely vapid criticism. Learn intellect and compassion, not thoughtlessness and cruelty.

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@harrisonjcollins I don't care about his feelings, this piece is shit and the description is pretentious and stupid.

    • @harrisonjcollins
      @harrisonjcollins ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Whatismusic123Again, a wholly vapid response. It’s obvious that you are projecting your own intellectual insecurities on strangers on the internet; I hope you learn to move through them.

  • @Whatismusic123
    @Whatismusic123 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is not music. garbage.

  • @ashiapmanman
    @ashiapmanman ปีที่แล้ว

    absolutely amazing

  • @jakeberran4187
    @jakeberran4187 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how you blend all these techniques together so naturally!!

  • @yeetthebeet
    @yeetthebeet ปีที่แล้ว

    man these days im obssesed with swelling textures and this piece scratches that itch when i start testing out new textures in orchestral ill keep in mind of some of your works

  • @yeetthebeet
    @yeetthebeet ปีที่แล้ว

    PEAK

  • @jarydtraaholt5068
    @jarydtraaholt5068 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful, and an incredible performance on top of that. 3:19-4:00 might be one of my favorite sections in any modern piece.

  • @enker5331
    @enker5331 ปีที่แล้ว

    AYOOOOO POGGGGGGG

  • @ashiapmanman
    @ashiapmanman ปีที่แล้ว

    LET'S FUXKING GOOOOOO

  • @jackminto7062
    @jackminto7062 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    cronchy

  • @ashiapmanman
    @ashiapmanman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    hood classic

  • @justinharvey8039
    @justinharvey8039 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yesss i love this