SBMP 865 Abbie Betinis, JOURNEY HOME

SATB/soprano descant piano duration: 3:30

THE JO-MICHAEL SCHEIBE- ______CHORAL SERIES

JOURNEY HOME for SATB chorus (soprano descant), and piano

Text by Erik Halverson, adapted by Abbie Betinis

Commissioned by the Minnesota Chorale, Kathy Saltzman Romey, Artistic Director, and premiered by the choir of Como Park High School, Carole Whitney, conductor, as part of the Bridges 2007: Sing Me a Home concert, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Target Foundation.

Note: A lead sheet of this song is available from the Minnesota Chorale. Visit www.mnchorale.org for more information.

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ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS

Spoken: A place, Un lugar, A home, Un hogar, Our Home, Nuestro hogar. A place we can call our own, Un lugar que podemos llamar el nuestro, make our own. hacer el nuestro. A place to live, grow, and be. Un lugar para vivir, crecer, y ser. An end to a journey from Mexico and Texas, Un pedazo de lo nuestro que compartimos con el mundo, but a beginning to a future of glimmering success. Un trozo de nuestros corazónes que traemos a la comunidad, A place to hope, dream and love, Un mundo de consuelo, A place of wonder sent from above. y un mundo de calma. Un mundo de amor. Our home is our own, yet so much more, Sung: It’s a piece of us we share with the world, A place, A piece of our hearts we bring to the community, a place to live, A world of comfort, a place to grow, and a world of calm. and be.

Our home, A place, Our casa, a place to hope, The home of our familia, a place to dream, A world of amor, and love... A place we will grow, And a place we’ll learn. An end, A place we will share. an end to a journey, but still we’re just beginning: A place, a place with you, A place, a place to start anew. to call our own. A home, (Un hogar) - Erik Halverson a home is our own, (nuestro propia hogar) yet so much more, (y mucho más) a world... (un mundo)

A world, (Un mundo) a world we’ll learn, (aprenderemos) a world we’ll bring, (lo traeremos) and share... (para compartir)

A world of comfort, of calm, the hope of our family, a place of love, of wonder from above...

A place, a place we’ll grow, a place we’ll learn, and share.

A place... to call our own, to make our own...

Our home.

– Erik Halverson, edited and adapted for music by the composer Spanish translation by Chad Zdroik and Gabrielle Diharce

SBMP 865

JOURNEY HOME ERIK HALVERSON, ABBIE BETINIS adapted by the composer

SPOKEN SOLO (freely): "Un lugar . . . un hogar . . . nuestro hogar. Un lugar que podemos llamar el nuestro, hacer el nuestro . . . Un lugar para vivir, crecer, y ser . . . Un pedazo de lo nuestro que compartimos con el mundo . . . Un trozo de nuestros corazónes que traemos a la comunidad . . . Un mundo de consuelo . . . y un mundo de calma . . . Un mundo . . . de amor." Freely U ## 4 ∑ nw & 4 w w Piano - w- p U ? ## 4 ∑ ∑ ∑

Moderato ca. 108 4 solo, or soli women {q = } P S/A # j & # ∑ ∑ Œ œ ˙ Œ œ œ œ Aplace, aplaceto.

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74 rit. unis. S/A # U # ∑ & w w w w home. (mm) rit. unis.

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Reviewed as “most audacious… edgy and thrilling,” the music of Abbie Betinis is being performed increasingly in the United States and abroad. Born in 1980, Betinis has been commissioned by nearly 40 music organizations including the American Suzuki Foundation, Cantus, Cornell University Chorus, , The Rose Ensemble, The Schubert Club, and the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus. Published by Augsburg Fortress, Graphite Publishing, Kjos, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and in G. Schirmer’s Dale Warland Series, she has won a Jerome Commissioning Grant, the Esoterics’s Polyphonos Young Composer Prize, the Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize, and awards from the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, and Minnesota Music Educators Association. Betinis holds a BA from St. Olaf College, and MA in music composition from the . Upon twice receiving the Cynthia Lilley Scholarship from the European American Musical Alliance, she spent two summer sessions in , France, where she studied harmony and counterpoint in the tradition of with faculty from Juilliard and the Paris Conservatory.

Since 2005, Betinis has served as Composer-in-Residence for The Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has also held residencies with The Singers—Minnesota Choral Artists and The Rose Ensemble.

Learn more about Abbie Betinis on her website: www.abbiebetinis.com