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Choral: Man Saves Own Life
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My Phantom Digital Orchestra lives in my computer and I am (on a good day) composer-in-residence, just a servant of the Muse...
I write symphonic, small ensemble and choral music, in multiple styles from medieval through modern classical. The music you hear on my pages is created with Finale notation software and Garritan Personal Orchestra sound samples. All pieces have a traditional score associated with them; if you are interested in any piece for possible performance, please contact me for details on scoring, instrumentation, pricing, etc. Recent Concert: I enjoy many kinds of music for listening - rock, pop, jazz, world, and classical of all periods. I am interested also in the fusion of art, poetry, dance, video, and ritual with music, music as a healing force and have been a music volunteer in the hospice setting.
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Genre
Classical • Symphonic
Charts
Peak #129
Peak in subgenre #26
Author
A. Anstett/KE Peace
Rights
2008 KE All rights Reserved
Uploaded
October 15, 2008
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MP3 3.0 MB • 119 kbps • 3:31
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Original Text of Poem (by Aaron Anstett): MAN SAVES OWN LIFE In the morning, before breakfast, I save my own life, then walk around the house all day a hero. Friends come by and ask how it feels. I say it just happened. I couldn't help it. They'd do the same in my shoes. I don't tell them how, before I knew it, something raced down my fingers and my feet. Something made me strong. It crowded itself in my arms and my heart and filled me up with as strange and kind a feeling as I could remember, and suddenly I knew nothing but I had to help that guy. It wasn't words. No voice told me. It was more like light behind my eyes, weight pressing in from every direction. High notes pierced me, and it was clear what I had to do: Text as adapted from above by KE Peace (ie, as sung in this piece): Solo: In the morning, before breakfast, I save my own life, then walk around the house all day a hero. Chorus: We come by and ask how it feels. Solo: It just happened. I couldn't help it. You'd do the same in my shoes. Chorus: We would do the same... But! how could we be sure? Solo: You just know those things. Chorus: We'd just know.... But! he doesn’t tell us how, before he knew it, Solo: something raced down my fingers and my feet. Chorus: Something made him strong. Solo: It crowded itself in my arms and my heart and filled me up with as strange and kind a feeling as I could remember, Chorus: and suddenly he knew nothing but… Solo: … I had to help that guy. Chorus: Help him! Solo: It wasn't words. Chorus (sotto voce): He hears (or heard) no words. Solo: No voice told me. Chorus: (sotto voce): No voice speaks (or spoke) to him. Solo: It was more like light behind my eyes, weight pressing in from every direction. Chorus: High notes pierced him!, Solo: and it was clear what I had to do:
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