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Timothy C. Takach
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Kin
When tenors and basses get together to sing, a fellowship is born.
TB, piano
“Kin” is a tribute to the feeling of fellowship in the room when tenors and basses get together to sing, and it will quickly win a top place in your choir’s library. Written with strong melodies and supportive piano lines, the music is accessible as a singer and as a listener.
Composer’s Notes
There is something intangible about tenors and basses getting together to sing. It’s empowering, fraternal, and totally unique. If I knew what it was I’d bottle it up and sell it, but since I don’t I’ll settle for trying to capture it in music. When I asked Michael Dennis Browne if I could set his poem “Kin” for TB choir, he asked, “Why that poem?” I told him it’s because if a TB choir is lucky enough to get together and make music, they need to have repertoire in which they can believe, and they need texts that have depth and truth in them – texts that we may not get the chance to say out loud. To me, this poem embodies what it’s like to sing in a room full of fellowship. Most people will never know what that feels like. But that’s okay. Because we know.
– Timothy C. Takach
Text
you are all my kin
in the small hours
I claim you
set out in your shadow boats
let us meet
arriving
by sail, by paddle, by oar
on a vastness of water
however wild it may be
all of you my kin
and I claim you
– Michael Dennis Browne
– Used with permission
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