Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Commissioned by The Laudate Singers in 2015.

A setting of the iconic children’s poem for a skilled choir. A director once described it as a miniature secular mass, complete with an “Amen” at the end.

I read the text as an expression of thankfulness and I was drawn to the idea of a choral setting that emphasizes this reading. I tried to imagine a traveler lost in the wilderness with no guide save for this supernatural beacon in the sky and the feeling of gratitude they would feel towards it at the crest of the last horizon.