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Hope
for SATB Chorus and Keyboard* (1996)
Instrumentation
SATB & Keyboard. *The keyboard part has been written so that it may be performed by any three available instruments, such as flute, clarinet, bassoon; 2 violins and cello; flute, violin, bassoon; 2 trumpets, trombone; clarinet, trumpet, cello, etc.
Duration
5'
Text
Emily Dickinson (E)

Program Note

The first version of Hope was completed in New York City on 21 August 1996. The composer radically revised the work, completing the final version on 14 September 1996. Dedicated to Scott Foss and Kitt Reuter Foss, this choral work was commissioned by Scott Foss and composed specifically for publication by E.C. Schirmer, from whom it is still available.

--- Bill Rhoads, 2003