for SSA unaccompanied
Marie-Claire Saindon's Keeping Time for Joy abounds with the joy of contemporary writer Sarah Windle's text in this uplifting piece. Folk-like scalic melodies, infused with momentum through changing compound and irregular metres, invite our wintry selves to awaken and soar like summer's swifts and swallows.
for SSA unaccompanied
Marie-Claire Saindon's Keeping Time for Joy abounds with the joy in contemporary writer Sarah Windle's text in this uplifting piece. Folk-like scalic melodies, infused with momentum through changing compound and irregular metres, invite our wintry selves to awaken and soar like summer's swifts and swallows. Effective textural changes, including opening solos over a tutti drone, and imitation between parts enable Saindon to make full use of the upper-voice scoring.
Marie-Claire Saindon is a Franco-Ontarian composer with a penchant for vivid imagery and a great affinity for setting text. In addition to her role as composer-in-residence for Choeur Adleisia, she runs creative choral and vocal composition workshops, scores films, and teaches Irish fiddle. Her choral works have been performed in many countries, continents, and contexts, from local community performances to the World Symposium on Choral Music, and have been awarded multiple prizes for composition.
