I Am The World

A stirring, expansive SATB choral composition commissioned for WACDA 2024.

5 min • Composed 2023 • Purchase SATB & piano

Composer’s notes

In 2023, I was selected as winner of the Western Region ACDA Emerging Composer Competition and commissioned for the 2024 WACDA Regional Conference “Many Voices, One Song." My chosen text—Dora Sigerson Shorter’s “I Am The World”—uses imagery of space and nature to proclaim the interconnectedness of Creation. With distinct Celtic influences, haunting minor melodies, and war chant elements, this setting of “I Am The World” showcases the struggle of humanity to become unified.

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Lyrics

Text from Dora Singerson Shorter’s poem, “I Am the World.”

I shall arise, and like a shooting star
Slip from my place;
So lingering see the old world from afar ⁠
Revolve in space.
Of song and shine, of changing leaf apart, ⁠
Of bud uncurled:
With all the senses pulsing at my heart,
⁠I am the world.

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