SAGA Panel––Work Samples for Cary Boyce, February 2021:

Earphones strongly recommended.  PDF Scores of these works are below if you read music and would like to follow.

A Garden of Roses, 2020, a choral cycle for SATB Chorus and string quartet: Selections:  VI. One Perfect Rose [Dorothy Parker], VIII. Flowers [Cary Boyce], XII. A Rose By Any Other Name [William Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Victor Buono, Amanda Hugginkiss]––Kantorei Choir, Spokane String Quartet, Timothy Westerhaus conducting––Live performance recording.  [about 9 minutes before applause]

Boyce: A Garden of Roses  (PDF opens in new tab, start recording before opening––N.B. Large format score, viewing online recommended.  Selections on the recording include: VI. One Perfect Rose (p. 31), VIII. Flowers (p. 47), XII. A Rose By Any Other Name (p. 71)  [score pagination].

 

There Is No Rose, 2018, SATB Chorus by Cary Boyce, 15th-century English Traditional text––Kantorei Choir, Timothy Westerhaus conducting––Live performance recording. [about 4 minutes.]

Boyce-There Is No Rose”  (PDF opens in new tab, start recording before opening.)

 

The Magi, 2007, Christmas work for SSAATTBB Chorus and Chamber Ensemble by Cary Boyce, VocalEssence Choir with members of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra––Live performance recording. [about 7 minutes.]

Magi-orch-cmplt  (PDF opens in new tab, start recording before opening––N.B. Large format score, viewing online recommended.)