- Orchestra
- Winds
- 1861
- 3 O’Clock Mix
- Across the groaning continent
- As the scent of spring rain...
- Avenue X
- Blow It Up, Start Again
- Chunk
- Climbing Parnassus
- Concertino
- De Profundis
- Moon by Night
- My Hands Are a City
- Novel Romance
- OK Feel Good
- Pi‘ilani and Ko‘olau
- Single
- Sowing Useful Truths
- Symphony No. 1, My Hands Are a City
- Tender Hearts
- The Americans
- The Rivers of Bowery
- Uncle Sid
- Chamber
- Bespoke Songs
- Boston Fanfare
- Concertino
- Deep Sky Blue
- Dohyci
- Halfway ThereNEW
- Knowledge WorkersNEW
- Lullaby for Munch in Hell
- Milori Blue
- Nostalgia for the KingdomNEW
- OK Feel Good
- Prayers of Steel
- Run Love Love, Run Jane RunNEW
- Savoy BlueNEW
- Stereo Action
- The Vinyl Six
- These Inflected Tentacles
- Wapwallopen
- Solo
- Vocal
- Arrangements
Halfway There
songsNEW
Year
2025Duration
12:00Level
ProfessionalPerusal Score
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Movements:
1. Idea
2. To Take Back a Life
3. Moon Song
4. Halfway There
Kate Baer‘s poetry sings with a beautiful mixture of vulnerability, evocative imagery, celebration, and humor. This set of songs was happily made for my longtime friend Emily Martin, with whom I’ve musically collaborated since we were (so very) young, and who was literally my first commissioner when I was 18 years old. The work—performable with piano, or piano and string quartet—is lovingly dedicated to her and to our long musical history.
This work is also published in an alternate instrumentation for voice and piano.
Above audio excerpt: Moon Song from HALFWAY THERE (Albany Records 2026).
Score video of To Take Back a Life below:
Instrumentation
soprano and piano quintet
Commissioned by
Dr. Emily Martin