The Water Is Wide - A ballad to be savored by both singers and audiences. It showcases male and female soloists over a beautiful, haunting background lines, builds up to the tutti section where each part has a moment to shine, then comes to a quiet close with a reprise of the male solo. SATBB a cappella.
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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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