Product Description
Take All My Loves was composed in the Fall of 2009 for Dr. Karyl Carlson at Illinois State University during my first residency at the Ucross Foundation near Sheridan, WY. When Dr. Carlson requested that I use a Shakespearean text for the piece, I immediately turned to the Fair Youth sequence of the Sonnets and fell in love with Sonnet 40.
Most of my choral works deal with love and its various aspects, but I had never before worked with a text on the end of love. Here, there is a resignation, a concession to what must have been the inevitable, as well as flashes of anger tempered with an almost pathetic forgiveness. The Youth has badly abused the Poets trust; yet despite his anger, the Poet cannot help but to forgive the young man for whom he still has such love.
Duration: ca. 3½ min.
Composed: 2009
Registered with ASCAP.
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