Judith Cloud
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Sheet music for Judith Cloud
The Mountain that is Mine for children's chorus and piano
Piano Accompaniment, Unison - Early Intermediate - Digital Download
Composed by Judith Cloud. 21st Century, Post-Romantic, Children's Music. 6 pages. Published by CloudWalk Press (S0.579683).
Anacreontics (Love, Heaven and Wine) for SATB chorus and guitar
Guitar, SATB - Digital Download
Composed by Judith Cloud (b. 1954). 21st Century, Post-Romantic. Score, Solo Part. 44 pages. Published by CloudWalk Press (S0.579693).
Fantasy on Three Irish Folksongs for Bb clarinet and piano.
Piano Accompaniment, Clarinet - Digital Download
Composed by Judith Cloud (b. 1954). 21st Century, Post-Romantic, Folk. Score, Set of Parts. 42 pages. Published by CloudWalk Press (S0.579605).
Three Impressions of Northern Arizona Violin Version
Piano Accompaniment, Violin - Digital Download
Composed by Judith Cloud (b. 1954). 21st Century, Post-Romantic, Native American. Score, Solo Part. 32 pages. Published by CloudWalk Press (S0.579619).
Three Impressions of Northern Arizona for flute (or violin) and piano
Piano Accompaniment, Flute - Digital Download
Composed by Judith Cloud (b. 1954). 21st Century, Contemporary Classical, Native American. 42 pages. Published by CloudWalk Press (S0.579601).
SOLILOQUY for Trumpet in C and Piano
Piano Accompaniment, Trumpet - Digital Download
Composed by Judith Cloud (b. 1954). 21st Century, Impressionistic. Score, Solo Part. 11 pages. Published by CloudWalk Press (S0.579609).
Voice and Piano
- Quatre mélodies de Ronsard (baritone or mezzo soprano) - Composed in honor of Carol Kimball
- Quand je te vois, seule…
- Bonjour, mon coeur
- À sa guitare
- Je suis homme, né pour mourir
- Four Neruda Songs (soprano or mezzo soprano) - poems by Pablo Neruda, translations by Stephen Tapscott – Commissioned by Arlene Shrut, founder New Triad
- Sonnet XVII: from Manana (Morning) I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz
- Sonnet XLV: from Mediodia (Afternoon) Don’t go far off, not even for a day
- Sonnet LVII: Tarde (Evening) They’re liars, those who say I lost the moon
- Sonnet LXXXIX: from Noche (Night) When I die, I want your hands on my eyes
- Four Neruda Songs, Set 2 (soprano or mezzo soprano) - poems by Pablo Neruda, translations by Stephen Tapscott – Commissioned by Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette
- Sonnet XXXV: from Manana (Morning) If your eyes were not the color of the moon
- Sonnet XXXV: from Mediodia (Afternoon) Your hand flew from my eyes into the day
- Sonnet LXX: Tarde (Evening) Maybe—though I do not bleed—I am wounded
- Sonnet LXXXI: from Noche (Night) And now you’re mine. Rest with your dream into my dream
- Três Canções (tenor or soprano) Commissioned by Ricardo Pereira
- Canto Da Juriti (Cassiano Ricardo)
- Poema (João Cabral de Melo Neto)
- Soneto De Separaçao (Vinícius de Morales)
- De Amor Oscuro (tenor or soprano) - poems by Federico Alarcón
- Me diste una canasta de manzanas
- Desde que conoci en el camino
- Night Dreams (soprano or mezzo soprano) - poems by Margaret Atwood Commissioned by Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette Available from Classical Vocal Repertoire sales@classicalvocalrep.com
- Night Poem
- Siren Song
- Variations on the Word Sleep
- Flying Inside Your Own Body
- The Secret History of Water (14 songs for voice and piano) - poems by Silvia Curbelo
- The Blackbirds Take Over the Sky
- The Secret History of Water
- The Death of the Tango
- The Lake Has Swallowed the Whole Sky
- Drinking Song
- For All The Goodbyes
- Dreaming Horse
- The Room Was A Pond
- I’m in love, I’m floating
- Last Call
- Janis Joplin
- Some nights you crank up the car radio and just drive
- The Simple Geography of Leaving
- Spontaneous Human Combustion
- Awake on a Spring Night (soprano or mezzo soprano) - poems by Betty Andrews
- When I Was Young
- The Time Comes
- New Grass
- Awake On A Spring Night
- The Shape of Laughter
- Absences (Philip Larkin)
- The Salley Gardens (W. B. Yeats)
- Sweet, stay awhile (John Donne)
- Hotel Garden (Carl Tomlinson)
Tenor, oboe and piano
- The Poet’s Pen (Menecrates)
Soprano, clarinet and piano
- Three Songs from “Gleanings” (Betty Andrews)
- Anxiety
- The Small Girl, Long Since Old
- Not To Be Taken Internally (I Swallowed My Anger)
Multiple solo voices with piano
- Lullaby for the Earth (Perry Brass) (two tenors, two baritones and piano)
Voice and Guitar
- Songs of Need and Desire (soprano, mezzo soprano or tenor)
- Sonnet (1928) Elizabeth Bishop
- Not In Time Kathleen Raine
- Lyric 4 Perry Brass
Voice and Trombone
- Vocalissimus (Wallace Stevens)
Voice and String Quartet
- I’ve Always Had Some Problems With The Resurrection (Betty Andrews) (Baritone or mezzo soprano)
Large Choral Works
- Feet of Jesus (Langston Hughes) - Soprano saxophone, soprano and baritone soloists, chorus and organ
- 1. Feet o’ Jesus - Soprano saxophone, soprano solo, chorus, organ
- 2. Prayer - SATB, a cappella
- 3. Shout - SATB, a cappella
- 4. Litany/Sinner - Soprano solo, baritone solo, soprano sax, SATB and organ
- 5. Fire - Baritone solo, SATB, a cappella
- 6. Angels Wings - Soprano solo, baritone solo, SATB, a cappella
- 7. Spirituals - Soprano solo, baritone solo, soprano sax, SATB and organ
- Philosophia Perennis (texts compiled from Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial Philosopher) Mezzo soprano, men’s chorus, flugelhorn and piano
- 1. What is Man? - Mezzo soprano, TTBB, a cappella
- 2. Good and Evil - Mezzo soprano, TTBB, a cappella
- 3. The Buddha’s Fire Sermon - Mezzo soprano, TTBB, a cappella
- 4. The Fallen Spirit - Mezzo soprano, TTBB, flugelhorn and piano
- 5. Evolution - Mezzo soprano, TTBB, flugelhorn and piano
- Eagle Poem (poem by Joy Harjo) Trumpet in C, SATB double chorus, a cappella
Other Choral Works
- Words From An Artist’s Palette, TTBB, a cappella Commissioned by Santa Fe Desert Chorale
- 1. Ad caelum scalas anima non invenit mea nisi per terrae pulchritudinem. Michelangelo
- 2. La funzione dei moscoli è di tirare non di spingere, eccetto nel caso dei genitali e della lingua. Leonardo da Vinci
- 3. Dejad que mis enemigos se devoren entre ellos. Salvador Dali
- 4. Bénis sont-ils qui voient de belles choses dans les endroits humbles où d’autres ne voient rien. Camille Pissarro
- 5. I hate flowers - I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move. Georgia O’Keefe
- Three Spells (Kathleen Raine) for SSAA, a cappella — Commissioned by Nancy Hadden and Psalite (with flute obligato)
- 1. Spell Against Sorrow
- 2. Love Spell
- 3. Spell of Creation
- Mesa Songs (Betty Andrews) for SSAATTBB a cappella, rain stick, Indian flute and Indian drum
- High Mesa Land
- There Is A Color In Nature
- Power
- anacreontics, or “love, heaven and wine” for chorus and guitar — commissioned by cantori, robert cowles, director — hobart and william smith colleges, geneva, new york
- love
- the honey of heaven
- wine
- Christmas Prayer for SSAATTBB a cappella
- A Christmas Folksong for SATB and piano
- A Walk Alone (Carl Tomlinson), for SATB and piano
- Goodnight, God, for Children’s chorus and piano
- Dulcis Jesu Memoria, for SATB a cappella
- Long, long ago for SATB, divisi, a cappella
- Bright Stranger (Helen Schucmann) for SATB, divisi with solo quartet, a cappella
- The Mountain that is Mine (Charlie Moody) for Children’s chorus and piano — Instrumental Music
Guitar
- Introduction and Fantasy 1995
Violin and piano
- Berceuse - 1996
Soprano saxophone, Trumpet and Horn
- Three movements for soprano saxophone, trumpet and horn
- Variations on an old Negro Spiritual
- Slane
- Aunt Nancy’s Dance
Concertos
- Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra (18’)
- I. Andante con moto
- II. Andante misterioso
- III. Land of Rest
Woodwind Quintet
- Six Stories by Italian Children
- The Singing Goat
- The Dog Who Lost His Tail
- The Talking Plate
- The Love-Sick Elephant
- The Generous Tree
- The Acrobatic Flea
Trumpet and Piano
- Soliloquy
Flute and Clarinet
- Six Forays
Flute and Piano
- Three Impressions of Northern Arizona
- Wupatki
- Dineh Song of Friendship (In memoriam Michael Sullivan)
- Wind
Composer Judith Cloud’s gift for vocal writing originates out of her own rich experiences as an accomplished mezzo–soprano soloist. Performing throughout the United States, Cloud premiered many new works by young composers as well as her own music, including acclaimed performances at the Aspen Music Festival, with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Tallahassee Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Sedona Chamber Music Festival, the Flagstaff Festival of the Arts Orchestra and the Rome Festival Orchestra. Highlights of her performing career include a performance of the Brahms Neueliebeslieder Waltzer with the acclaimed radio program Saint Paul Sunday Morning, as well as being the soloist for the American premier performance of Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with the Winston-Salem Symphony. She still remains active as a recitalist and soloist, and will perform the mezzo solos in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Flagstaff Symphony in the spring of 2009.
Cloud first began composing for the voice in 1974, and her vast catalogue of vocal works attests to her growing reputation as a “singer-friendly” composer. Her growing oeuvre also features many choral pieces, as well as works in a wide range of other genres, including a concerto for soprano saxophone and orchestra; the woodwind quintet Six Stories by Italian Children; and a work for soprano saxophone, trumpet and horn entitled Variations on an Old Negro Spiritual. Other songs include The Secret History of Water, fourteen settings of poems by Cuban-American Silvia Curbelo and Awake On A Spring Night, five songs to poems by Betty Andrews Recent choral compositions include Philosophia Perennis for men’s chorus, mezzo soprano, flugelhorn and piano, and Long, Long Ago, a Christmas setting for a cappella chorus. Her chamber work for soprano, clarinet and piano Three Betty Andrews Songs, was one of the highlights of the 2006 International Alliance for Women in Music International Conference in Miami, Florida.
Cloud has been an honored composer in residence with the noted “Escape to Create” program sponsored by the Seaside Institute in Seaside, FL for two seasons. Recordings include her cantata Feet of Jesus, for soprano and baritone soloists, soprano saxophone, chorus and organ, with the BIS label on a CD entitled “Spirituals,” released in 1997 by the Saint Jacob’s Chamber Choir and directed by Gary Graden. Slated for release in late 2008 with Centaur is “(In)habitation: Settings of Margaret Atwood Poetry by American Women Composers”, by the Strempel-Beaudette duo, with her cycle Night Dreams included with works by some of the top female composers of our time, including Libby Larsen, Lori Laitman, Amanda Harberg, Elisenda Fábregas, and Tania León. The recently released Clarion recording “First Day,” by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Linda Mack, conductor includes Words From An Artist’s Palette and Spell Against Sorrow.
Recent performances of the prolific composer’s music include Três Canções, a new set of songs with texts by three 20th century Brazilian poets composed for Brazilian tenor Ricardo Pereira and pianist Rita Borden. Lullaby for the Earth, a song for two tenors, two baritones and piano, set to poetry by Perry Brass, was composed and performed in celebration of Earth Day, 2007.
Cloud’s song cycle Night Dreams, a riveting setting of Margaret Atwood poems was commissioned by soprano Eileen Strempel and pianist Sylvie Beaudette, and performed as part of the Great Music Series at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan in May of 2007. Spell Against Sorrow, for women’s a cappella choir received its first performance in London by Psallite, under the direction of baroque flutist and scholar, Nancy Hadden. Words from an Artist’s Palette, Cloud’s most recent commission for the Santa Fe Desert Chorale men’s choir, received its premiere on July 13, 2007. Songs of Need and Desire for soprano and guitar was premiered in July of 2007, as well, by soprano Eileen Strempel and guitarist Kenneth Meyer with a repeat performance at the Chautauqua Institute in August of 2008. Three Impressions of Northern Arizona, for flute and piano was premiered in China in September of 2007 by flutist Emily MacKay and pianist Rita Borden. Soprano Meghann Vaughn and pianist Arlene Shrut performed the premiere of the song set, Four Pablo Neruda Sonnets, in February of 2008. Six Forays for flute and clarinet, commissioned by Emily McKay and Jeremy Reynolds, received its first performance in January of 2008 and was featured at the Great Southwest Flute Fest in April. Cloud’s most recent premier was of the song set Quatre melodies de Ronsard composed in honor of noted scholar, Carol Kimball, on the occasion of her retirement. Baritone Tod Fitpatrick and pianist Robert Mills performed the piece on March 29, 2007 at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada. Her woodwind quintet Six Stories by Italian Children was a featured work performed by Kokopelli Wind Quintet at the International Double Reed Society Conference in Provo, Utah in July of 2008. Three Spells for Women’s Chorus a cappella with baroque flute will be performed by Psallite at the Women in Music Conference in London on November 8, 2008.
Current projects include songs to poetry by Kathleen Raine and a second set of Pablo Neruda Sonnets, as well as a work for chorus and guitar, commissioned by conductor Robert Cowles and The Hobart and William Smith Colleges vocal ensemble Cantori.
Dr. Cloud received vocal performance degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts, and Florida State University. Her first composition lessons were with Robert Ward, who advised her to keep singing—but to keep writing music, too. She has been a member of the music faculty for The North Carolina School of the Arts, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, and Indiana State University. She is currently Coordinator of Voice at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, where she teaches studio voice and vocal pedagogy. Inspiring students with her teaching as well as her compositional talents, she was awarded “Teacher of the Year” for the College of Fine Arts in 2004.
The Composer is a member in good standing with ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.)
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