Alex Shapiro, composer: Because I Am

Because I Am

A 1-minute statement of womanhood.

(SSAA Choir and piano).
Total duration ca. 1 minute (2015)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Commissioned in 2015 by Joseph Ohrt, for the Central Bucks High School-West Women's Choir.
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".

Premiered in February 2016 at the 2016 ACDA Eastern Division Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.

Audio from the premiere performed by the Central Bucks High School-West Women's Choir, Karen Burgman, piano; Joseph Ohrt, conductor.


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Because I Am is a stand-alone miniature that is part of a suite of nine such others composed by women including: Dale Trumbore, Giselle Wyers, Aiyana Tedi Braun, Elizabeth Alexander, Susan LaBarr, Jocelyn Hagen, Karen Burgman, Joan Szymko, and Helen Kemp. These short pieces comprise a collective work titled, BECAUSE I AM A WOMAN, dedicated to the memory of Helen Kemp.

Because I Am, page 7