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stuartbeatch
Canada
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2011
Canadian composer of choral and chamber music, currently based in Edmonton AB.
New music. It sounds amazing.
New music. It sounds amazing.
"Chosen Family" for SATB choir (2023) [Score-Video]
Stuart Beatch - "Chosen Family" for SATB Choir (2023)
stuartbeatch.com/chosen-family
Chronos Vocal Ensemble (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Director: Jordan Van Biert
Live recording from the first performance in January 2024
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00:00 Program Note / Complete Texts
00:15 I. Inside the Frame
06:13 II. Oxygen
09:51 III. What She Gave Me
14:52 IV. Chosen Family
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Chosen Family is a four-movement choral cycle adapting poetry by Victoria-based poet John Barton. The text is taken from his most recent book Lost Family, a memoir in sonnets. The four poems recall important people in his life, both friends and family, who have since passed away. Together, they form a narrative of life, love, and coping with loss through the support of our chosen families.
Chosen Family is dedicated to the memory of James Gordaneer (1933-2016), Barbara Preston (1931-2016), Nancy Barton (1922-2014), and Eva Wynand (1940-2019).
Learn more at stuartbeatch.com/
stuartbeatch.com/chosen-family
Chronos Vocal Ensemble (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Director: Jordan Van Biert
Live recording from the first performance in January 2024
--
00:00 Program Note / Complete Texts
00:15 I. Inside the Frame
06:13 II. Oxygen
09:51 III. What She Gave Me
14:52 IV. Chosen Family
--
Chosen Family is a four-movement choral cycle adapting poetry by Victoria-based poet John Barton. The text is taken from his most recent book Lost Family, a memoir in sonnets. The four poems recall important people in his life, both friends and family, who have since passed away. Together, they form a narrative of life, love, and coping with loss through the support of our chosen families.
Chosen Family is dedicated to the memory of James Gordaneer (1933-2016), Barbara Preston (1931-2016), Nancy Barton (1922-2014), and Eva Wynand (1940-2019).
Learn more at stuartbeatch.com/
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"When Sleep is Nigh" for SATB choir (2020) [Score-Video]
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Stuart Beatch - "When Sleep is Nigh" for SATB choir, a cappella (2020) I was contacted in November 2019 by Michael Gaffney, a singer in The Fourth Choir, to privately commission a work both in honour of his mother’s 90th birthday, and in memory of his late father. Throughout our correspondence, Michael shared many details and stories of his parents’ long marriage, and I was immediately struck b...
"on queer survival" for Alto Saxophone and Piano (2023)
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Stuart Beatch - "on queer survival" for Alto Saxophone and Piano (2023) Nick May, saxophone Alex Li, piano Live recording from October 2023 As a composer of queer choral & vocal music, I was thrilled when Nick May approached me about writing a piece for the I Exist Project, his large-scale commissioning project to foster new queer-themed repertoire for saxophone. I wanted to address the struggl...
Stuart Beatch - "Jesus at the Gay Bar" for SATB and Piano (2023)
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"Jesus at the Gay Bar" for SATB and Piano (2023) Music by Stuart Beatch Text by Jay Hulme stuartbeatch.com/jesus-at-the-gay-bar i Coristi Chamber Choir (Edmonton, AB, Canada) www.youtube.com/@iCoristi Director: Rob Curtis Pianist: Ariane Lowrey Live recording from the first performance in November 2023 As a queer person of faith, the intersection between religion and sexuality has always been i...
"a boy & a boy" for SATB choir (2022) [Score-Video]
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Stuart Beatch - "a boy & a boy" for SATB choir, a cappella (2022) Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Director: Michael Zaugg Live recording from the first performance in September 2022 In early 2019, my friend and poet Matthew Stepanic set out alongside fellow poet Jason Purcell with the ambitious plan to open Glass Bookshop, a queer-focused bookstore & community space in Edmonton. As part ...
the no-contact rule (from "he opens"), for baritone and piano (2019) [Score-Video]
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"the no-contact rule" from he opens: queer love songs for baritone and piano (2019) Music by Stuart Beatch Poetry by Matthew Stepanic Recorded by CodyRay Caho (baritone) and Michael Lewis (piano) Live recording from the first performance in October 2019 "he opens" was written as a companion piece to Schumann’s Dichterliebe-an intentionally queer work on the same themes of love & loss, intertwin...
Songs of Renewal, for SATB choir and piano (2021) [Score-Video]
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Stuart Beatch - Songs of Renewal for SATB (divisi) choir and piano (2021) Da Camera Singers (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Director: Laura Hawley Live recording from the first performance in May 2022 0:00 I. Vitae Summa Brevis 3:06 II. The Enkindled Spring 6:00 III. Haze 9:01 IV. Everyone Sang At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, I (like many other people) watched innumerable plans, per...
Preserves (from "Still Running"), for tenor and piano (2022) [Score-Video]
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"Preserves" from Still Running: queer songs for tenor and piano (2022) Music by Stuart Beatch Poetry by Matthew Stepanic Recorded by Tim Carter (tenor) and Kimberley-Ann Bartczak (piano) Live recording from the first performance in March 2022 "Still Running" is a queer song cycle commissioned by Tim Carter for his final recital as part of graduate studies at the University of Victoria. The text...
Prairie Bound, for Choir (2016) [Score-Video]
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Stuart Beatch - Prairie Bound for SSSAAATTTBBB choir, a cappella (2016) Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Director: Michael Zaugg Live recording from the first performance in June 2017 This piece is based on a short poem by the nineteenth-century poet Pauline Johnson, which describes the promise of the Canadian landscape to settlers, and the power of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In my set...
Beatch/Harrold - Voices of Vimy, for Choir and Violoncello (2017) [Score-Video]
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Stuart Beatch & Tom Harrold - Voices of Vimy, for SATB (divisi) choir and violoncello (2017) Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Director: Michael Zaugg Solo Cello: Rafael Hoekman Live recording from the Canadian premiere in November 2017 Co-commissioned by Pro Coro Canada and the John Armitage Memorial to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. A collaboration between...
Remembrance, for Choir (2013) [Score-Video]
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Stuart Beatch - Remembrance for SATB choir, a cappella (2013) University of Regina Chamber Singers (Regina, SK, Canada) Director: Dominic Gregorio Studio recording from Spring 2013 Remembrance is the final section from a larger work, Requiem for the Fallen. A setting of a beautiful Civil War-era poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, this simple chorale is intended to remind us that in the ravages...
Simple Psalms, for Choir (2016) [Score-Video]
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Stuart Beatch - Simple Psalms for SATB choir, a cappella (2016) I. Magnus Dominus - 0:00 II. De Profundis - 2:22 III. Levavi Oculos Meos - 4:43 Pro Coro #connect (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Director: Michael Zaugg Live recording from the first performance in May 2019 In my own ongoing personal challenge to compose shorter pieces which might be accessible to a wide range of choirs, Simple Psalms is a...
Resurrectio, for Choir (2015) [Score-Video]
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Stuart Beatch - Resurrectio, for SSAATTBB choir, a cappella (2015) Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Michael Zaugg, Artistic Director Davide Fior, Guest Conductor (Pro Coro Canada Emerging Artist) Live recording from November 2019 "Resurrectio" is a dense and layered setting of "Resurrection, Imperfect" by the English poet and priest John Donne, juxtaposed with several Latin scriptural exc...
"I loved you first" for Choir (2015) [Score-Video]
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Stuart Beatch - "I loved you first" for SATB choir, a cappella (2015) Chronos Vocal Ensemble (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Director: Jordan Van Biert Studio recording from January 2018 "I loved you first" is a simple and emotional setting of the eponymous poem by Christina Rossetti. In this piece, I aimed to write something pure, delicate, and vulnerable, but which made reference to my roots in sacred...
"Set me as a seal" for Choir (2019) [Score-Video]
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Stuart Beatch - "Set me as a seal" for SATB choir, a cappella (2019) Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Director: Michael Zaugg Live recording from the first performance in September 2019 "Set me as a seal" was a piece written on short order for Michael Zaugg, who casually asked me one day whether I had any a cappella choral works which set text from the Song of Solomon - to which my opport...
"Joy will lead you" for Choir and Piano (2020) [Score-Video]
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"Joy will lead you" for Choir and Piano (2020) [Score-Video]
"I am like many" for Choir (2018) [Score-Video]
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"I am like many" for Choir (2018) [Score-Video]
Psalm 53, for Double Choir (2016) [Score-Video]
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Psalm 53, for Double Choir (2016) [Score-Video]
Pange Lingua, for Choir (2014) [Score-Video]
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Pange Lingua, for Choir (2014) [Score-Video]
HYMNS MODERN - 35 Hymns with Service Music (Score/Video)
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HYMNS MODERN - 35 Hymns with Service Music (Score/Video)
MODERN PSALTER - 150 Contemporary Anglican Chants (Score/Video)
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MODERN PSALTER - 150 Contemporary Anglican Chants (Score/Video)
lovely. well done. the cres. going into H in the first movement was especially gorgeous!
What a wonderful piece! My first thought was PDQ Bach, but then I listened. Well done!
I love my youtube algorithm for giving me this. Amazing work, I would love to sing this some day. Much love from germany :)
Great piece. Happy Pride '24.
listened twice, back-to-back. crying with a sense of peace and satisfaction. this is so beautiful. remarkable piano writing, and fantastic harmony. the way it drops down to the solo voice at the end - and on *that* line, that gorgeous line - is heartrending. just sublime.
Thank you so much for your kind comments! ❤️❤️❤️
Singing this song cycle currently and it is one of the most exciting things I’ve sung in a while. Beautiful, interesting, challenging, funny - it has it all. Really looking forward to performing it in June!
I'll be there - really looking forward to hearing your choir's rendition!
This was beautiful. 💙🧡
Why does it change key but not change key in the first movement
This is my favorite song now. I am relatively young, and I am bisexual (I like guys a little more), but my home is not very supportive of my sexuality. I listen to things like this and cry. It is such a beautiful story. One that I want to have. One that I crave.
Thank you for this beautiful message! I'm glad my music resonates with you, and I hope you find this story for yourself one day ❤️
@@stuartbeatch Thank you for your reply. Keep up the good work. 👍:)
I'm a queer & trans Christian. I've seen the poem before, and was so happy to hear it had been set to music. And as a pianist, singer, and choral conductor - this is absolutely gorgeous. I would love to conduct/sing in this one day 💕 Thank you. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
How moving! Thank you for writing it; thank you for sharing it.
You are such an incredible composer! I loved listening to this! Do you happen to have anything that is strictly 4-part? I'm the bass in an SATB quartet and we would like to perform more modern music and if you have anything, im sure we'd be happy to buy some copies of :)
Thanks so much! I've written quite a few pieces without divisi, it just depends what you're looking for (a cappella or with piano, secular or sacred, difficulty level, etc) - send me a message through my website and we'll go from there! stuartbeatch.com/contact
Singing a boy and a girl right now for choir. I don't know how to feel
This was magnificent. Bravo my good sir, you have a knack for this sort of thing dont you? lol much love
Very moving. Not at all what I was expecting, and so glad I took a moment out of my day to listen to this.
So gorgeous. Thank you for sharing.
This soothes my heart at a difficult time. Thank you for sharing!
This is stunning. I started crying at the "my child" section.
gorgeous! and a lovely choir too
Some wonderful music here Stuart! Thank you for sharing :)
this is beautiful!!
This piece, along with the song I Chose For You composed by Daniel Ficarri, are the two most beautiful and powerful pieces of music about reconciling being LGBT and christian. Congrats!
Thank you
Two year Iowa All State Choir singer here, I would like to say this is one of the most moving pieces of love and inclusion I have heard and I would kill to be able to preform this someday. This beats out songs like I Am Loved by Christopher Harris, Through Love to Light by Elaine Hagenberg, and Can We Sing the Darkness to Light by Kyle Pederson, This piece deserves attention from organizations like the IHSMA.
I love the piece, I don't love the message.
I'm catholic and gay/same sex attracted (struggling with the naming issue), and while I still hold to the official catholic teaching on homosexuality (as it is stated in paragraphs 2357, 2358 and 2359 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church), I still found this piece very very beautiful and moving. I'm currently exploring anglicanism and other LGBT-affirming forms of Christianity. I can't say I'm fully convinced by them, but I'm open to hearing their points of view. The only issue I would have with the text of the poem itself is the phrase "there's nothing in this heart of yours that needs to be healed", because even if I were to fully agree with LGBT-affirming Christianity, obviously gay people would still have things we need to be healed by Christ, like every other people does. But I get the point of the text is to merely affirm that being gay in itself is not one of those things that would need to be healed. Anyways, this is a beautiful piece, I can feel it was composed from the heart, and I appreciate that.
Yo, this is a very thoughtful and sincere reflection. May God's peace that surpasses all understanding, and the wisdom to do what is good and right, be with you!
Absolutely beautiful!
lovely
I’ve sung a lot of songs, but this one touched me more deeply than any other. It is the core of love one another. I am blessed by being given the chance to sing this beautiful piece. Many thanks Stuart!
*PromoSM*
Was not ready for it to go from jazzy and fun to so beautiful and loving. This is such an important message <3 Would love to cover this!
I'm a music director for a Lutheran church. Perhaps one of the most moving choral pieces of music I've encountered. I wish our choir could sing this, but it feels too technical for the choir. Would it be possible if there could be an accessible arrangement for a community choir without paid section leaders?
Uterly beautiful! Thank you. Much love from Brazil.
Intense, fluent song cycle. Congratulations! Y también bellamente interpretado 💐💐
Wonderful song 🌻
Frankly, to me, this poem and setting reflect the Jesus who sought out the ruffians and rejects of society/ The same Jesus had some very pointed remarks about people who flaunted their faith and rituals more far than they cared for others, and saw the widow who gave a few cents that she'd miss as giving a lot more than the rich people who gave a fortune they'd not miss.
interesting. i like it. maybe i’ll try playing it
This is beautiful! I especially love the out of time section.
holy shit. now i wanna be gay AND christian! Amazing work truly, congrats!
You may have seen on instagram (or possibly will soon see) the stories you've been tagged in from a KCL student, asking people to nag the chapel choir to sing this work lol, well thats me :) you're a legend, and I genuinely didn't know you were a KCL alumni when I first sent that post, which is a wild coincidence!! Another coincidence is that I saw that you were inspired by Bob Chilcott, and Chilcott is far and away my very favourite living composer, his music just speaks to me in some magical way, he is an absolute genius. I've had the privalege of singing with him at one of his 'come and sing' days and had a short conversation with him. So very humble and so incredible with amateurs, which is what a composer should be in my opinion. I actually also sung in the childrens choir of one of bob chilcott's recordings 9-10 years ago now (which i cant believe...) as a treble, that was an incredible experience, and what first got me interested in his music, and possibly composing music as a whole. It's so odd how our paths have kind of crossed many times...
Such a coincidence! KCL had a massive impact on my development as a composer. The choir has only performed one of my anthems, back in 2018... so I appreciate the nagging! 😉
@@stuartbeatch you're a legend :) thank you
stuart... man you are so fucking talented... listening to 'jesus in a gay bar' and then this, I havent had so many shivers listening to music in a long long time. wow wow wow. in awe. i'm just a young guy studying music, but it really seems like you have a very very bright future. dont stop composing just like this!! no one is composing music like this here in the UK, people here dont understand that church-like tonal soundworlds and contemporary texts can in fact work so beautifully together. you guys in north america are unique in that understanding. thank you <3
Have to agree with the other comments. I was expecting and irreverant, sarcastic parody. Instead - this is both beautiful in sentiment and in composition. Wonderful job.
This is the kind of stuff that gives me faith in humanity
This is actually stunning.
This would be nice as a piano quintet (piano plus string quartet)
Excellent performance, excellent piece, excellent understanding of human nature. Many thanks Stuart,
Beautiful choral writing.
This so majestic and delicate at the same time❤❤
After just a week, this piece has already hit 20k views! I wrote this music to affirm queer Christians with a message of unconditional love, and I'm thankful for the overwhelmingly positive feedback and heartfelt comments. 🏳🌈❤🏳⚧ If you've come here to rant about semantics and Bible quotes... you're missing the point. Queer & trans people deserve to be welcomed with open arms, full stop. If you're this desperate to justify exclusion, then I pray that you stop letting your own vanity and prejudice cloud your heart. And if I've somehow committed blasphemy, then I suppose that's between me and God. Ultimately, I'd rather be condemned for spreading love than go to heaven for spreading hate. And if you reply with more semantics and Bible quotes, I'm just going to delete them. I've already shown people more patience than was owed. 🤷
facts. you're a legend.
This is literally blasphemy. How dare you think that the same God who condemned Sodom and Gomorrah to flames in Genesis is now ok with this. You will be punished for this. God will not be mocked.
This is literally a piece of music about Jesus' love.
@stuartbeatch no it's not, it's saying anyone can get into Heaven, although the Bible clearly states that nothing defiled shall enter Heaven. Your definition of Love is a false definition. The true definition is wanting what is best for the other, not accepting everyone's erroneous opinions (yes I said opinions) that they have.
@@johnpaulpiano4186 I'm defiled? That's news to me.
@@stuartbeatch There is a chance for everyone, if you repent of your ways. If you are LBTQ, yes, you are defiled because God literally rained fire and brimstone down on Sodom and Gomorrah due to that very reason. Why should it be different now than it was then?