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Libby Larsen Photo: Ann Marsden - Libby Larsen - b. 1950 Libby Larsen is one of America’s most prolific and most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 200 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral and choral scores. Her music has been praised for its dynamic, deeply inspired, and vigorous contemporary American spirit. Constantly sought after for commissions and premières by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, Libby Larsen has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory. In April 2003, the Library of Congress announced Libby Larsen’s appointment as the first holder of the Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology in the John W. Kluge Center. She has received numerous awards and accolades, including a 1994 Grammy, and has held residencies with the California Institute of the Arts, the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, the Charlotte Symphony, and the Colorado Symphony. Larsen’s many commissions and recordings are a testament to her fruitful collaborations with a long list of world-renowned artists, including The King’s Singers, Benita Valente, and Frederica von Stade, among others. Her works are widely recorded on such labels as Angel/EMI, Nonesuch, Decca, and Koch International. Libby Larsen is a vigorous, articulate champion of the music and musicians of our time. In 1973, she co-founded (with Stephen Paulus) the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers Forum, which has been an invaluable advocate for composers in a difficult, transitional time for American arts. Larsen’s commitment to the wider issue of music in society has led her to activity on a national level. She has also been Vice-President of the American Music Center and a director of the College Music Society. Recognized as a leader in the generation of millennium thinkers, Libby Larsen’s music and ideas have refreshed the concert music tradition and the composer’s role in it. 28

Choral Works Sacred The Nothing That Is Baritone solo, SATB choir, 3 speakers, and chamber ensemble Hire conductor’s, vocal score and parts 9780193370128 A contemplation of faith in supreme being through faith in numbers, in particular the mystical number zero. With excerpts from Apollo 13 flight transcript, Psalms 90, 13, and 131, Ptolemy, John Donne, Charles Pierce, and John F. Kennedy, adapted by Larsen. 36 minutes Choral Leaflets/ Octavos Sacred Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round SATB, organ, and opt. congregation Vocal score 9780193404809 Commissioned for the American Guild of Organists 2014 National Convention in Boston, Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round is a joyful and exuberant setting of the well-known hymn by John Chadwick. 4.5 minutes Fanfare and Alleluia SATB, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, handbells, chimes, organ Vocal score 9780193860414 Available from Banks Music Publications 2 minutes Flee we to our Lord SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193869349 This is a lovely, hushed and meditative hymn that is simple and eloquent. The brevity and expressive beauty of this piece can be equally used in both sacred and secular settings. 4 minutes God so loved the world SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193856646 This is a moving arrangement of the familiar passage from the Book of John. Larsen takes an original melody and arranges beautiful harmonies underneath with delicate suspensions. 3 minutes i am a little church SATB and organ Vocal score 9780193868885 This ravishing setting of a heartfelt and emotional poem by e. e. cummings captures a sense of the ineffable place of faith in existence that transcends mere worship, doctrine, even humankind itself. The musical setting is mostly consonant, bittersweet, and well-attuned to the emotional content of the words. 4 minutes Libby Larsen 29