TWO SANDERS SONGS (2025) - for soprano (or baritone) and piano

Premiere: Rose Kearin and Maggie Hinchliffe, June 7, 2025, Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX

Duration:  ca. 9 min

Program Note and text:

Two Sanders Songs is a song cycle containing two texts by Nacogdoches-based poet Mark Sanders: "In Hurricane, with Horses," and "The Trees Know." "In Hurricane, with Horses" depicts a horse wrangler during a destructive hurricane, while  "The Trees Know," which was commissioned specifically for this song cycle, explores environmental destruction and severe storms from the perspectives of trees. 

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The work was commissioned by Maggie Hinchliffe and Rosie Kearin for their art song tour, "No More Walks in the Wood."

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Additional Performances:

• Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, April 11, 2025 ​

• MATCH (Midtown Arts and Theatre Center Houston), TX, June 22, 2025

• Centex Songslam Competition, First Presbyterian Church, Waco, TX January 25, 2025 (2nd place)