Mr. Christopher Alexander is an award-winning composer and arranger from St. Joseph, Missouri. He received his Bachelor of Science in Vocal Music...
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Christopher Alexander
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About This Piece
Shelley's timeless meditation on power and impermanence meets a cinematic soundscape for tenor-bass choir, building from intimate solos to expansive eight-part divisi. Bold, dramatic programming for an advanced ensemble looking to make a statement.
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I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said — "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." —Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818