Lamentations of Jeremiah (Lamentaciones de Jeremias)

Z. RANDALL STROOPE, American composer & conductor; SATB/piano (or with orchestra or wind ensemble); U.S. publisher - Alliance Music Publ. AMP #0356; Duration: 4:30
**RANDALL CONDUCTED/POSTED A NEW UA-cam RECORDING of this work by THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES in April 2024
• LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMI...
as well as an anniversary edition of the work (now available with Alliance Music) with notes and new interpretive markings!
NOTES FROM THE COMPOSER (www.zrstroope)
This is a study of universal human emotions. Suffering, anger, self-pity, frustration - to a greater or lesser degree - is common to all human beings. This work captures five very different, but intertwined emotions: feeling grief-stricken (opening "moans" as Jeremiah is collapsed in rubble of destroyed Jerusalem); striking out in anger at those who pass by ("o vos omnes"); completely consumed in self-pity ("Si est dolor"); enraged/pleading to perceived abandonment ("recordare Domine"); and the inability to effectively face waves of overwhelming circumstances (final section - "Recordare! O vos omnes! O Domine!...).
Commissioned by TEXAS CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION.
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Visuals from "Les Bourgeois de Calais" (The Burghers of Calais) - Auguste Rodin.