Chorus Angelorum

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Chorus Angelorum for Double SATB Choir, the second composition of mine as Composer-in-Residence with Te Deum (Matthew Christopher Shepard, conductor,) was begun in January 2026 and completed in early March of the same year.  Written for their Memorial Day concerts that year, I decided to revisit the “In Paradisum” text that I had set two years prior in my Requiem for Animals(and famously set in the requiems of Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Duruflé) because I was particularly drawn to the imagery of the “Choir of Angels” (“Chorus Angelorum” in Latin) welcoming the departed souls into heaven.  I set out to write the most angelic and comforting music I could, and hit on the idea of dividing the singers into two choirs who sing swelling chords that overlap with each other.  I pared down and adapted the text a bit to focus it more on the angels themselves:

Chorus Angelorum

          May flights of angels welcome you into paradise.

          May choirs of angels voice your arrival

          and may they grant you eternal rest.

Premiered May 23, 2026 by Te Deum, conducted by Matthew Christopher Shepard, in Prairie Village, KS.