A Ghost Through the Winding Years song cycle for baritone and piano on poems of Sara Teasdale. April Dominick DiOrio

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3 A Ghost Through the Widig Years sog cycle for aritoe ad piao o poems of Sara Teasdale April 201 Domiick DiOrio

4 "a forard-thikig youg composer filled ith e ideas, ready to tackle aythig," Coductor ad composer Domiick DiOrio as amed Best Composer 2011 y HoustoPress for Klytemestra, his chamer opera ith Divergece Vocal Theater ad lirettist Misha Peto. His secod opera, The Little Blue Oe ith lirettist Megha Guidry, had its premiere i April 2014 i Bosto ith Juvetas Ne Music Esemle ad musical director Lidiya Yakovskaya. Of the opera, the Bosto Examier rote, "The Little Blue Oe defies the idespread otio that cotemporary classical music is iaccessile; DiOrio's score aouds ith gorgeous lyricism, supported y compellig harmoy." DiOrio fills frequet commissios for orgaizatios ad istitutios across the coutry icludig eighth lackird, Uiversity of Richmod, Third Coast Percussio, Priceto Glee Clu, Juvetas, the Ciciati Boychoir, the Texas Choral Directors Associatio, ad the Housto Chamer Choir. His music has ee heard i veues as diverse as the Museum of Moder Art (NYC), the Museum of Fie Arts (Housto), the Orietal Arts Ceter (Shaghai), the Rothko Chapel, the Meyerso Symphoy Ceter (Dallas) ad the Kimmel Ceter for the Performig Arts (Philadelphia). He has ee aarded prizes i compositio from ASCAP ad ACDA, as ell as from Bosto Metro Opera, the Yale Glee Clu, the Youg Ne Yorker's Chorus ad the Catate Chamer Sigers, amog may others. His ork is pulished ith Alliace, Boosey & Hakes, Carl Fischer, Éditios à Couer-Joie, Editio Peters, G. Schirmer, Lorez, Mark Foster, Oxford ad Sata Barara. DiOrio is assistat professor of choral coductig at the Idiaa Uiversity Jacos School of Music, here he directs NOTUS: IU Cotemporary Vocal Esemle, a auditioed chorus specializig i music of the last fifty years. He metors graduate choral coductig majors ad also teaches courses i score readig, choral literature, ad udergraduate ad graduate coductig. Uder his leadership, NOTUS has performed at a iterest sessio for the America Choral Directors Associatio (ACDA) Cetral Divisio Coferece ad as a ivited esemle o the Distiguished Cocerts Iteratioal Ne York (DCINY) Artist Series at Caregie Hall. DiOrio made his Caregie Hall coductig deut i Feruary 2012 as a ivited fello of the Caregie Hall Choral Istitute. I Octoer 2009, he as oe of oly 12 coductors i the orld ivited to Sede to compete for the Eric Ericso Aard, the premier iteratioal competitio for choral coductors. He as a fialist i the 2005 ACDA Udergraduate Coductig Aards i Los Ageles. A fierce advocate for e music, he has premiered orks y may composers of his geeratio, icludig Deey Fleszar, Sataa Haight, Taie Olso, Aaro Travers, ad Zachary Wadsorth, as ell as his o compositios. His discography icludes coductig (Alay Records ith Jim Pellerite), compositio (Ne Dyamic Records ith NOTUS ad Juvetas), ad sigig (MSR Classics ith Housto Chamer Choir). DiOrio eared the Doctor of Musical Arts degree i coductig from the Yale School of Music, studyig ith Marguerite Brooks, Simo Carrigto ad Jeffrey Douma. His DMA research o Krzysztof Pederecki's St. Luke Passio is pulished i The Choral Scholar. He also eared the MMA ad MM i coductig from Yale ad the BM i compositio summa cum laude from Ithaca College, here he studied ith Gregory Woodard, Daa Wilso ad Jaet Galvá. He curretly serves as Treasurer o the Executive Board for the Natioal Collegiate Choral Orgaizatio (NCCO) as ell as o the advisory oards for the Choral Arts Iitiative, the Priceto Pro Musica, ad the Youg Ne Yorker's Chorus (YNYC)..domiickdiorio.com

5 Commissioed y Kyle Siddos ad dedicated to Joae Wuest, i hoor of her lifelog love ad support of music A Ghost Through the Widig Years sog cycle for aritoe ad piao o poems of Sara Teasdale I. Aloe II. Sprig Torrets III. Tilight IV. The Ghost V. Peace VI. Joy VII. Ne Love ad Old VIII. Riches IX. Let it e Forgotte X. Sog Makig Duratio: 0 miutes Difficulty: 4 Copyright 201 Domiick DiOrio ad DD Pulicatios. All rights reserved. This score ca e foud at GraphitePulishig.com For more iformatio aout this ork ad others, please visit.domiickdiorio.com

6 Commissioed y Kyle Siddos ad dedicated to Joae Wuest, i hoor of her lifelog love ad support of music A Ghost Through the Widig Years for aritoe ad piao Sara Teasdale ( ) I. Aloe Domiick DiOrio (. 1984) Very free, approx. h = 52 & Very free, approx. h = 52 f pp pp <#? I am a- loe, i spite of love, ot rushed, ut ith the iflectio of speech? - U & i spite of all I take ad give, let resoat soud rig freely U i spite of all your te-der ess, some-times I am ot glad to live. U 5 & f ff? <# I am a- loe, as though I stad o the high-est peak of the tired gray Copyright 201 Domiick DiOrio ad DD Pulicatios. All rights reserved. This score ca e foud at GraphitePulishig.com.domiickdiorio.com pp

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8 Sara Teasdale ( ) III. Tilight Domiick DiOrio (. 1984) & Very slo ad steady q = 56 4 Very slo ad steady q = shade dyamics aturally ith the voice phrase aturally J Dream - i- ly o-ver the roofs 6 # # Ó the cold sprig rai is fall - ig; & ## # # 11? Out i the loe - ly tree a ird & # # Copyright 201 Domiick DiOrio ad DD Pulicatios. All rights reserved. This score ca e foud at GraphitePulishig.com.domiickdiorio.com.

9 16 < # & # 21 is call - ig, call - - ig. # J & j j j Slo - ly o-ver the earth the & 1 # # & # # igs of ight are fall - ig; my ##

10 5? # # heart like the ird i the tree is & # # # # 9 each eighth ote slightly loger tha the previous call - ig, call - - ig. & J? Ó U 4 call - - ig. & j j j 5 take time, do ot rush U let liger U March 28, 201 Bloomigto, IN

11 X. Sog Makig & Slo h = 52 Uaverig q = 52 C 4 J ff suito p f <? C 4 j pedal isely throughout < j j j mf j j 10 J J My heart cried like a eat-e child Cease-less-ly all ight log; & - j mp j j J j j < j 17 j J J J I had to take my o cries ad thread them i-to a sog. Oe as a cry at lack mid-ight ad & j j j - mf j J J Copyright 201 Domiick DiOrio ad DD Pulicatios. All rights reserved. This score ca e foud at GraphitePulishig.com.domiickdiorio.com.

12 2 J J J J & & & 29 4 oe he the first cock cre My heart as like a eat-e child, ut o oe e-ver ke. f < J Life you have put me i your det ad I must serve you log ut oh, the det is rit.? U J 4 J J " & j ff ter - ri-le that must e paid p < < J j i sog. j U " 4 U ff fff ff U " 4 U < tempo ruato f mf mp p iete pp - fff U J Ó & ÿ #? U J J J j J J < J j Ó j J U # # # U Ó J j March, 201 Bloomigto, IN