Alexandra du Bois | ORCHESTRAL, CHORAL AND MIXED LARGE ENSEMBLES

Hope Dies Last (2015)

Nonet (for chamber ensemble)

Commissioned by the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings for trombonist David Jackson
Original photography and video mapping by photojournalist and artist Michelle Andonian
In creative preparation for writing Hope Dies Last, Alexandra du Bois traveled throughout Armenia with artist Michelle Andonian. The work honors the 100th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide in 2015. Du Bois collaborated with University of Michigan trombonist David Jackson and Detroit-based artist Michelle Andonian (a recent...Read more

03 February, 2015

Noctilucent Song (2013)

for string orchestra

Commissioned by New York Classical Players
World premiere: November 2013, New York Classical Players, Dongmin Kim, conductor, Broadway Presbyterian Church, New York City
Score/parts available Program note...Read more

03 February, 2015

American Tune (2012)

song cycle for a play with songs, for mezzo soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, percussion and string quartet

Commissioned by playwright Shailly Agnihotri. Text by Shailly Agnihotri. Libretto by Agnihotri/du Bois Premiere: November 2012, Shelter Studios, New York City

I. "Mister Smith/I Will Defend You" LISA (mezzo) II. "Founding Fathers/Nothing More Sacred" JUDGE ROBERTS (baritone) III. "Mother's Song" SUSAN (soprano) IV. "I Will Defend You" duet: LISA (mezzo)/JONES (baritone) V. "I Want You to Know" duet KATIE (alto)/Matt (tenor) VI. "Easy to Hate" JONES (baritone) VII. "You Think I'm Guilty" (baritone) VIII. "I Try...Read more

03 February, 2015

Beneath Boundaries (2012)

for symphony orchestra (2-2-3-2; 4-3-4-1; timp.; perc.; strings)

Commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Written in collaboration with NPR's Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva and inspired by the photography of Iranian photographer Shadi Ghadirian World premiere: July 2012, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conductor, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, California Score/parts available ...Read more

03 February, 2015

Fanfare (2008)

for symphony orchestra (2-2-2-2, 4-3-2-1, timp, strings)

Commissioned by the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra
World premiere: January 2009, Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, Randall Craig Fleischer, conductor, Atwood Concert Hall, Anchorage, Alaska
...Read more

03 February, 2015

Prologue: The Quechol’s Cry (2011)

for children’s choir, prepared piano and string quartet

Commissioned by PALS Children's Chorus Boston
World premiere: March 2011, PALS Children's Chorus, Alysoun Kegel, conductor, First Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Score/parts available...Read more

03 February, 2015

Within Earth, Wood Grows (2010)

for chamber orchestra and Vietnamese dan bau (fl.[+picc.], ob., cl. (+ bass cl.), bsn., hn., dan bau, Vietnamese perc., hp, pno., strings)

Commissioned by Southwest Chamber Music in Los Angeles by the Schoenberg Family Charitable Fund
Written in honor of the 15th anniversary of the normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam
World premiere: March 2010, Southwest Chamber Music, Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor, Ascending Dragon Music Festival, Hanoi Opera House, Hanoi, Vietnam; Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, California (U.S Premiere)
Score/parts available
Program note Excerpt...Read more

03 February, 2015

In Beauty, May I Walk (2009)

for women’s choir, children’s choir, clarinet (+bass cl.), violin, two violas, cello and double bass

Commissioned by Present Music
World premiere: October 2009, Present Music with the Milwaukee Choral Artists and the Milwaukee Children's Choir, Kevin Stalheim and Sharon Hansen, conductors, Cathedral of St. John, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
...Read more

03 February, 2015

Lumino(c)ity (2004)

for mixed amplified ensemble (2 fl. [+picc.,alto], alto sax, baritone sax, electric guitar, bass guitar, perc., amplified violin and amplified cello

Commissioned by the Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute
World premiere: July 2004, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can Festival Fellows, Dante Anzolini, conductor Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), North Adams, Massachusetts
Score/parts available...Read more

03 February, 2015

A Requiem for the Living (2001 original) (2012 arrangement)

for string orchestra (2012)

Original version for two violins, viola, and two double basses. Arranged for string orchestra
Dedicated to the victims of 9/11 in the United States and the victims in Iraq of the United States’ invasion of Iraq in 2003
Score/parts available...Read more

03 February, 2015