Lamentations

O Lord

the
highlight of
the year
came Nov. 9
with Justin
Merritt's
Five
Preludes for
piano
-Peter
Schimpf,
Bloomington
Independent

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness

Surely against me is he turned
He turneth his hand against me
My flesh and my skin hath he made old
He hath broken my bones
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone
He hath made my paths crooked
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces
He hath made me desolate
He hath filled me with bitterness
He hath broken my teeth with gravel stones
He hath covered me with ashes
Their heart cried unto the Lord,
let tears run down like a river day and night:
Arise, cry out in the night:
lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children,
that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever;
thy throne from generation to generation.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
and forsake us so long time?
-from the King's James
translation of the Bible

commissioned by
St. Lukes United Methodist Church

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Several times I wrote "Wow!" next to

a work being played...
-Peter Jacobi, Herald Times

In 2000 composer Justin Merritt (bn. 1975)

was the youngest-ever winner of the
ASCAP
Foundation/Rudolph
Nissim
Award for Janus Mask. He is also the winner
of a host of other awards including the 2008-09 Copland Award, the 2008
Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute Prize for River of Blood, and the
2006 Polyphonos Prize
He received his Bachelors from Trinity University and his Masters and
Doctorate from Indiana University. He studied
composition with Samuel Adler, Sven-David Sandstrm,
demands
Claude Baker, Timothy Kramer, Don Freund, and
an audience's
electronic and computer music with Jeffrey Hass. He is
attention
currently Assistant Professor of Composition at St. Olaf
Merritt's
College. He resides in Northfield, Minnesota with his
piece was the
wife Yuedong and their children Cullen Fang Ouxiang
standout.
and Molly Fang Qinghe.
-Rob
Hubbard,
Pioneer Press

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Dur: ca 7 min.

for Bert Bostic & St. Luke's United Methodist Choir

Lamentations
for 4-part choir a cappella

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Standard Deviation!.............................................................................................violin
Bar for Hans Sachs!.................................................................................................flute
Veloce!.......................................................................................................violin & piano
Coupling!................................................................................................................organ
Drum Break!...................................................................................................percussion

chamber

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Janus Mask!..................................................................................................
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winds in 2s
River of Blood!.............................................................................................winds in 2s
Dervish!.........................................................................................................winds in 2s
Lachryme!..............................................................................................string orchestra
Monster!........................................................................................................winds in 3s

A Gauze of Misted Silver!..........................................................string quartet & harp

Ravening!..................................................................................................string quartet
Invocation!....................................................................................................8 solo brass
The Day Florestan Murdered Magister Raro!............clarinet, violin, cello, & piano
Trio!.................................................................................................violin, cello, & piano

piano

5 Preludes!..............................................................................................................piano
Chaconne: Mercy Endures!..................................................................................piano
Rococo Suite!..........................................................................................................piano
Sierpinski Gasket!..................................................................................................piano
Windchimes!...........................................................................................................piano
Hive!...................................................................................................4 pianos, 16 hands

vocal

other compositions by justinmerritt

Dissonance!.....................................................................................................song cycle
Steps Into Stillness!........................................................................................song cycle
Dhammapada!................................................................................................song cycle
London Thoroughfare, 2AM!...........................................tenor, horn, violin, & piano
May Evening in Central Park...........................................................
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baritone & piano

Corde natus!..........................................................................................................SATB
Lamentations!.......................................................................................................SATB
Hay Das!......................................................................................................SMsATBrB
Nativity!.................................................................................................................SATB
Adoro Te Devote!.................................................................................................SATB
Fire Sermon!....................................................................................SSATB & orchestra

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