Skylark Lullaby awarded 2015 IAWM Judith Lang Zaimont Prize

So excited to share that my composition "Skylark Lullaby" (2014) for saxophone ensemble was awarded the Judith Lang…

Posted by Jennifer Bellor, composer on Thursday, July 30, 2015

“Burning Light” for soprano, piano, electric guitar, bass, and drums

Finished a new piece recently, and wanted to share! Burning Light is written for soprano, piano, electric guitar, electric bass and drums. The music is a revised version of my older piece titled The Distant, and the text is from Emily Bronte’s Poem “Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun.” I love this poem, and used a few stanzas from this same poem before in an earlier piece I composed in 2009 titled Stars. I used the two final stanzas for this piece:

“O Stars and Dreams and Gentle Night;
O Night and Stars return!
And hide me from the hostile light
That does not warm, but burn—

That drains the blood of suffering men;
Drinks tears, instead of dew:
Let me sleep through his blinding reign,
And only wake with you!”

I hope to premiere the piece this fall. In the meantime, here are a few score excerpts:

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Jazz@Eastman – Past, Present, and Future

Honored to be featured as a composer along with composers/arrangers Julian Tanaka and Gabe Condon on this episode of…

Posted by Jennifer Bellor, composer on Wednesday, July 8, 2015