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Thanks, Noah! I was trying to keep divisi to a minimum for this piece, so that's out unfortunately. I've been aiming for a low difficulty level with my pieces lately. Not that this is appropriate for beginning middle school choir, or anything, but there are so many solid musical groups that are made up of volunteers, and don't have a lot of members, (and then someone has laryngitis and someone else has to leave town for a funeral). So I've been concentrating on writing things that can be pulled off successfully with the group you have, rather than the professional group of your dreams. No big orchestra, not a lot of parts, easy ranges in case you need an alto to sing tenor, etc. Maybe the next one will have a bit bigger budget! :D Glad you liked my chord changes at the end! It's a shift into harmonic major, so half the major scale and half the minor scale. To my ear, it feels like it adds a sense of mystery.

Overall I liked this a lot, especially the melody and the mood. And the bold gestures. I wonder if it needs more than just piano accompaniment. For example, when the bass voices enter and you had the piano play fast notes. That was great, but that was when I wanted a different color for that. Something to think about, Nice work. I think you could have left off the tag at the very end, it wasn't really needed.

Hi Pateceramics, I'm really pleased you liked it and even more pleased you think it might be good enough for others to possibly want to play it, and you're suggestions for posting it as a free score is a great idea I'd never thought of. For me, it's something I've done for years just to entertain myself, it took a long time before I even took the step of posting some of my stuff on here, but of course, it has to be every amateur composers dream of having your work played by real live people and heard by yet more lol. Unfortunately it's been many many moons since I went to uni, but you never know, I might look into it but in any case, I'm more than happy for you and the good folks here to have taken the time to listen and feel they would like to leave a comment be it good or bad. So, thank you again for your kind words, it really is appreciated. Mark

Hi Vahan, Thank you! It always helps to play the instrument(s) you are writing for! The premiere will be on the 20th of August 2017 in Amsterdam and I will do my best to get it recorded with high quality for you and of course for myself too!