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Marybeth Kurnat · Forever (SSAATTBB choir) - Chicago Choral Artists

My gateway to singing as a 15 year-old was early music, particularly Renaissance madrigals and motets. I would would stay up until all hours of the night, following each individual line of Josquin’s Ave Maria and Thomas Tallis’ If Ye Love Me, completely spellbound by their polyphonic textures and tense, churning harmonies. I chose to approach setting this poetry in the same structural style, not just to experiment with those musical characteristics, but also to challenge myself to evoke as much emotion as I could with very little text - which this era of composers did so masterfully. This music is a message in a bottle - a love letter unreceived. It is an anthem for anyone who has ever feared to love out loud, whether to avoid causing pain for someone else, or in fear of being rejected or discriminated against for who they love.

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