Two weeks ago I received a sad email, telling me that the composer Donald Martin Jenni had died, from a long and painful cancer. My first thought was that I was sorry I had not kept in closer contact, my second was that I was surprised to read in his obituary that he had ended up in New Orleans, with a new life and an adopted family. His life had changed so much since I had known him. I had been a masters student of Martin's from 1978 to 1980 at the University of Iowa, and although we had stayed in touch after I left Iowa—we would send each other music and he would come visit whenever he was in New York—the second that he retired he vanished…
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Donald McKinney
make peace (2016) 3'
SATB
commissioned by The Crossing, Donald Nally, conductor, with the support of the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music.
in nature (2020) 20'
SATB
Warren Miller Performing Arts Center and The Crossing (Donald Nally, conductor)
statement to the court (2010) 10'
Text by Eugene Debs
SATB, strings, bass drum
The Crossing
i live in pain (2011) 4'
Text by David Lang (after Beatriz de Dia)
women's chorus; SAA
The Crossing
protect yourself from infection (2020) 6'
SATB
The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
poor hymnal (2023) 60'
word and music by David Lang
SATB
co-commissioned for The Crossing and Donald Nally by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, Jill and Loren Bough, and Peggy and Mark Curchack.
love fail (2012) 60'
Text by David Lang (after Lydia Davis, Marie de France, Gottfried von Strassburg, Béroul, Thomas of Britain and Richard Wagner)
SSAA playing simple percussion instruments
love fail was co-commissioned by The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The John F. Kennedy Center Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, The Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University, and Hancher Performances at the University of Iowa. Movement 4, 'the wood and the vine', was commissioned by The Newman Center for the Performing Arts at University of Denver, The University of California at Riverside, and the Santa Fe Concert Association in Santa FE, NM. Movement 10, 'I live in pain', in a different version, was originally written for “TheCrossing,” Donald Nally, conductor.
the mile-long opera (2018) 60'
co-created with Elizabeth Diller; texts by Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine
1000 singers
a house (2016) 18'
text by David Lang
SATB
Northwestern University