A Lonely Land

Composer: WYERS, Giselle
  • Wyers published this choral work in 2016. It is scored for SATB choir, piano, and violin.1
  • This work was commissioned by the Gilroy High School Chamber Singers, directed by Jonathan Souza.2 Wyers wrote this piece for the choir’s tour of Ireland.3  
  • The obbligato violin part in this work uses an Irish folk melody.4
  • The work’s text, by Irish poet William Allingham, is available here. 

Sources

  1. Giselle Wyers, A Lonely Land (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Music Publishing Inc., 2016), 3.
  2. Ibid.
  3. “A Lonely Land,” Santa Barbara Music Publishing, accessed November 17, 2021, https://sbmp.com/SR2.php?CatalogNumber=1363.
  4. Ibid.

Cut IDs

22336