Neighbors at Seven

Type
Piece
Composer
Jamie Klenetsky Fay
Composer Nationality
American
Composer Date of Birth
1984
Text
Twitter user @onaggregate
Year Composed
2020
Pages
6
Minutes
5
Difficulty
3 (Advanced high school collegiate or community chorus)
Language
English
Voicing
4 part mixed chorus
Divisi
No
Solos
Yes
Extended Techniques
No
Sacred or Secular
Secular
Mood
Joyful; Caring, warm
Description

We all had our pandemic rituals, actions to make us feel connected during isolation, whether is Zoom calls or games with friends online. Waving to the neighbors at seven, cheering for healthcare workers, went on for weeks in New York. It gave me hope that we would persist, and I wanted to celebrate that through this piece! Neighbors at Seven was written for C4’s live remote performance project, featuring aleatoric lines to account for latency and solos to emphasize the text.

Group
C4
Performances
C4: 2020 June (Animated. Graphic. Novel.), cond. Wozniak (World Premiere)