Is it plainly in our living shown,

By slant and twist, which way the wind hath blown?

-Adelaide Crapsey

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

Several times I wrote "Wow!" next to

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

justinmerrit

On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees

In
2 00 0
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
demands
with Samuel Adler, Svenan audience's
David Sandstrm, Claude
attention
Baker, Timothy Kramer, Don Freund,
Merritt's
and electronic and computer music
piece was the
with Jeffrey Hass. He is currently
standout.
Assistant Professor of Composition at
-Rob
St. Olaf College.
He resides in
Hubbard,
Northfield, Minnesota with his wife
Pioneer Press
Yuedong and their children Cullen
Fang Ouxiang and Molly Fang
Qinghe.

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On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees

for baritone & viola

Adelaide Crapsey

Baritone voice

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Copyright 2002 (c) Justin Merritt (ASCAP)

Published by JMKrause
All rights reserved

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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

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solo

Corde natus!........................................................................................................................................SATB
Lamentations!.....................................................................................................................................SATB
Nativity!...............................................................................................................................................SATB
Adoro Te Devote!...............................................................................................................................SATB
Fire Sermon!..................................................................................................................SSATB & orchestra
Dissonance!...................................................................................................................................song cycle
Dhammapada!..............................................................................................................................song cycle
London Thoroughfare, 2AM!.........................................................................tenor, horn, violin, & piano
May Evening in Central Park.........................................................................................
!
baritone & piano
5 Preludes!............................................................................................................................................piano
Chaconne: Mercy Endures!................................................................................................................piano
Windchimes!.........................................................................................................................................piano
Standard Deviation!...........................................................................................................................violin
Veloce!.....................................................................................................................................violin & piano
Coupling!..............................................................................................................................................organ
Drum Break!.................................................................................................................................percussion

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chamber

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choral/vocal

orchestral

other compositions by justinmerritt

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