The Dead Fires Anthology is a zine comprised of solo unaccompanied works for voice composed during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Each piece was composed for a specific singer. I have chosen to name this zine after the my setting of Jesse Redmon Fauset’s Dead Fires because of the depth of both that collaboration, and how many of us had a fire in our belly at the beginning of 2020 that turned to embers, much like dead fires. You can learn more about the pieces and singers I wrote for below. There will be 7 songs in total.
Vulnerability – Soprano Stephanie Lamprea
Twilight Blooming – Soprano Sofie Zane
Stillness – Soprano Marguerite McKean
Dead Fires – Composer/Soprano/Poet Carolyn Quick
There is Frost – Composer/Soprano Jordan Daniels