Commissioned after winning the 2025 IL-ACDA Composition Award
The Unlived Life (after Ivor Gurney)
for SATB choir
February 21st -Premiere performance by The William Ferris Chorale
Church of Our Savior
Chicago, IL
Christopher Windle, conductor
When I die, let it be like a dream
Where I fly over fields of snow
With your hand in mine;
Squeezing three times to tell me you love me
And we live here in a cabin ensconced in glistening white
We live here in a place of our own
Without fear of suffering
Without the brittle noise of the world
Without the weight of anxious thoughts
A place, our place
Where we can be free together
To live the unlived life in the midst of a perfect slumber.