(Level IV) My Grandfather’s Clock An American classic sung all
over the world is now a spirited jazz waltz! Commissioned by a Japanese
arranger, written for Vox One, it features tenor and soprano solos,
incorporating the sounds that old clocks make (tick, tock, ding, dong) in the
background. The section where grandfather departs from this world is more
somber, but it eventually resumes its initial tempo to a heartfelt finish.
Suitable for choir as well as well-rehearsed small ensemble. SATTB a Capella.
View all charts by Yumiko Matsuoka
YUMIKO MATSUOKA, originally from Tokyo, Japan, is a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, teaching ear training. She is the founder of Boston-based a cappella quintet Vox One whose albums Vox One (1993), Out There (1995),Chameleon (1997) and Pure Imagination (2005) have won multiple awards from the
Contemporary A Cappella Society of America (CASA). Yumiko’s arrangements and compositions can also be heard on her anthology
To Every Thing There Is A Season (2008), Vox One’s Say You Love Me (2005), and on recordings by other a cappella groups around the globe, as well as TV commercials in Japan.
Yumiko is an active clinician, adjudicator and choral director, working locally, nationally and worldwide.
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