2009 Destination Opera! Festival Ocean Grove Great Auditorium

for SATB Chorus unaccompanied Words by Mary Elizabeth Frye: Public Domain Music by Stanley M. Hoffman © Copyright 2018 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. The poem above is sometimes called “I Am” due to its repet...  morefor SATB Chorus unaccompanied Words by Mary Elizabeth Frye: Public Domain Music by Stanley M. Hoffman © Copyright 2018 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. The poem above is sometimes called “I Am” due to its repetition of the phrase. Was the poem inspired? The Hebrew name for God, YHWH, means “I am” or “I am that I am.” And there does seem to be something magical about the poem, as it was written by a woman who, to our knowledge, had never written a poem before. Mary Elizabeth Frye was an orphan with no formal education. In 1932 she and her husband hosted a young Jewish woman, Margaret Schwarzkopf, who was fleeing the Holocaust. When she received news that her mother had died in Germany, the heartbroken houseguest told Frye in despair that she had never had the chance to “stand by my mother’s grave and shed a tear.” Frye found herself composing the poem above on a ripped-off section of a brown paper shopping bag. She said the words “just came to her.”  less

Lirica tijdens het Winnersconcert van "25th Takarazuka InterNational Chamber Chorus Contest" in Japan o.l.v. Jos Venken (juli 2009) www.lirica.be

New Jersey Choral Society will be hosting auditions through July and August for anybody interested in joining our Chorus. This fall, NJCS will practice in-person for a full concert season. We will take all necessary precautions at rehearsal and during our...

Watch Ensemble perform "There is Sweet Music" by Daniel Gawthrop on December 8th.

Writtle Singers dressed for the wedding of Miss Dracula and the son of Frankenstein...

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