Immortality (for children's chorus, cello, and piano)

Children’s chorus, cello, and piano · 4 minutes · 2025

Commissioned by the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus.

Premiere

Los Angeles Children’s Chorus; Pasadena Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, CA (May 12, 2025)

Program note

In the winter of 2017, while I was living in Boston, my friend Mason read me Clare Harner’s Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep to me. It was past midnight at the Conservatory, and I was sitting at the piano when he asked me to play something that felt like the poem. I began improvising, and, as if by instinct, our friend Angie started singing the words after a short piano introduction. A piece was born.

The poem’s simple yet profound comfort in the face of loss has stayed with me ever since, along with the melody and that night. Recently, when I couldn’t sleep, I kept hearing the same melody and knew I wouldn’t sleep until it left my body. I instantly thought of my friends at my favorite children’s chorus on planet Earth, the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, and of course stayed up all night.

I hope this music offers a moment of peace, a sense of continuity, and the reassurance that love and memory never fade.

What you receive

PDF full score plus the cello part. The pianist reads from the score, so the score and the cello part are all you need to perform it. One license covers unlimited copies for a single choir and its players, for as long as you perform it — no per-copy fees and nothing to re-order. Delivered by email immediately after checkout. Download links stay active for 30 days and can be re-sent any time on request.

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