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Whistling Hens: Reacting to the Landscape

Featuring music by Victoria Bond, Ashi Day, Melika M. Fitzhugh, Cherise D. Leiter, Danielle McBryan, Diana Rosenblum, and Jennifer Stevenson


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Check out my operatic, can-can-inspired arrangement of “Olé” for WNO and the Washington Spirit, perhaps my most important work to date.

 
 

For Whom the Dog Tolls

a 10-minute opera for soprano, piano, whistle, and duck call

Composer: Ashi Day Soprano: Charlotte Stewart-Juby "For Whom the Dog Tolls" depicts the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. Tollers were bred to imitate foxes, for whom ducks have a fatal attraction, in behavior and look, and to be excellent retrievers.

Charlotte Stewart-Juby, soprano (Piper, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever)
Barbara Pritchard, piano

 

The Green Child

A mini-play for soprano and clarinet (full version ~15’)
Abridged (10 min.) also available

Commissioned and performed by Whistling Hens
Jennifer Piazza-Pick, soprano (Narrator/The Village Girl)
Natalie Groom, clarinet (The Green Girl)

 

waking the witch

An immersive, one-act chamber opera for countertenor or mezzo-soprano/contralto and Pierrot ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion)
Excerpt: Prologue
Grantee, Opera America’s 2022 Grants for Women Composers: Discovery Grant

Min Sang Kim, countertenor
Erin Snedecor, cello

 

To Help the Crampe

SATB a cappella choir (opt. bass divisi)

Performed live by Choral Arts Initiative. Brandon Elliot, Artistic Director. Written for CAI’s PREMIERE|Project Festival. Connor Scott, conductor.

Nothing New Under the Sun

SATB choir (or solo quartet)

N.E.O. Voice Festival 2019 David Harris, conductor Ashi Day, composer Text: Ecclesiastes 1:9 "There is nothing new under the sun." (text and all the individual phonemes that make up the phrase) Written for the N.E.O. (New Exploratory Oratorio) Voice Festival 2019 as part of a collaboratively created 'exploratorio.'

 

Eelgrass 

fixed media (modified soprano voice), text by Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

boundless

four-part choir with low voices or solo quartet; optional ending with three high-voice solos
Part of Noises, Sounds, and Sweet Airs, an ongoing series of Shakespeare text set out of context for unconventional choral configurations, performable alone or in any combination

 

Open Your Mouth

high or low voice and piano, text adapted from Proverbs 31:8-9 and I Chronicles 28:20
An accompaniment track is available to download at operatracks.com

Melissa Mino, soprano
Brad Clark, piano
Ashi Day, composer

 

Even So, Lord, Quickly Come

SATB choir, text excerpted from the hymn “Come, Ye Thankful People, Come” by Henry Alford

Artifice
Lee Cromwell, conductor

 

WHAT DOTH THE LORD REQUIRE?

SATB choir, a cappella or with optional keyboard accompaniment, text from Micah 6:8

The Polyphonists
Amy Broadbent, Sylvia Leith, Matthew Hill, Gilbert Spencer

 

Old Man Kangaroo

high, medium, or low voice and piano, text adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories

Anney Barrett, soprano
Wesley Hall, piano

 

Soothe! soothe! soothe!

tenor and piano

Daniel O'Dea, tenor (2005 recording)

 

Thursday

soprano and clarinet

Whistling Hens performs Ashi Day's "Thursday" at MilkBoy ArtHouse. The piece was written in 2019 for Whistling Hens.
 

Ad Vitam

SATB choir, text excerpted from the Requiem mass

Allegra Martin, conductor
Anney Barrett, Michael Barrett, Brian Church, Mary Gerbi, Katherine Engel Meifert, Adam Oullet, Paul Max Tipton, and Sarah Yanovitch, choir

 

Music from I Thought the Earth Remembered Me: Becoming Moss

fixed media (modified voice and ukelele)

 

The Lobster Quadrille

tenor (or baritone) soloist, SATB choir, and piano, text from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Allegra Martin, conductor
Michael Barrett, tenor
Wesley Hall, piano
Anney Barrett, Brian Church, Mary Gerbi, Katherine Engel Meifert, Adam Oullet, Paul Max Tipton, and Sarah Yanovitch, choir

 

The Dove Pursues the Griffin 

SSSSAAAA chorus, improvised piano, and internal piano strings, text from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

The Evening Darkens Over

SSAA chorus, text by Robert Bridges

Ashi Day, composer
Allegra Martin, conductor
Anney Barrett, Mary Gerbi, Katherine Engel Meifert, and Sarah Yanovitch, choir

 

Good and Faithful Servant, well Done

SATB choir with optional piano, text adapted from various Bible verses

Allegra Martin, conductor
Wesley Hall, piano
Anney Barrett, Michael Barrett, Brian Church, Mary Gerbi, Katherine Engel Meifert, Adam Oullet, Paul Max Tipton, and Sarah Yanovitch, choir

The Engine

3-part choir (any combination) and optional percussion, text by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Anney Barrett, Allegra Martin, and Katherine Engel Meifert, voice and percussion

 

 Where You GO

medium voice solo and SATB choir, or medium solo voice and piano, or solo unaccompanied voice, text adapted from Ruth 1:16
An accompaniment track for the solo voice version is available to download at operatracks.com

Allegra Martin, conductor
Anney Barrett, soprano
Michael Barrett, Brian Church, Mary Gerbi, Katherine Engel Meifert, Adam Oullet, Paul Max Tipton, and Sarah Yanovitch, choir

Anney Barrett, soprano
Wesley Hall, piano

 

 

The Lion and the Tiger

2- or 4-part chorus (any voice combination) and piano, text by Hilaire Belloc

 

Woman, Why Are You Weeping?

soprano solo and SATB choir, text adapted from John 20:10-18

Allegra Martin, conductor
Sarah Yanovitch, soprano
Anney Barrett, Michael Barrett, Brian Church, Mary Gerbi, Katherine Engel Meifert, Adam Oullet, and Paul Max Tipton, choir

 

The VOiceless

soprano, mezzo-soprano, and tenor solo tri and piano, text by Olive Wendell Holmes
also available for SAB choir and piano