Coming home from school in my brother’s Geo Metro

Is it winter yet? Has it gotten lost?
We watch our breath, braced for frost.

Air hits our lungs a burning cold;
the car warms up right as we get home.

The sun spun our afternoons dark.

“Winter & Construction” was commissioned as part of the 2018 Source SongBook, celebrating the festival’s 5th anniversary. It was premiered on August 5th 2018 at Westminster Hall in Minneapolis, MN by Jacob Christopher, tenor, Alan Dunbar, bass-baritone, Mary Jo Gothmann & Mark Bilyeu, piano.

It was programmed again on August 5, 2019 OpenSource: Six Decades of Minnesota Songs with Jacob Christopher, tenor, Alan Dunbar, bass-baritone, Timothy Lovelace & Mark Bilyeu, piano

The 2019 recording was featured on August 3, 2020 OpenSource.

I love that this piece is written for piano four hands! I do recall that it was a little challenging for the two of us to stay together and keep a steady tempo— very fun to perform! -MJG

A true bop if ever there was. -MB

Liam Moore wants the music stuck in his head to get stuck in yours. He deals mostly in song, writing primarily for solo voice, choir, and chamber ensembles. Liam’s music draws from a wide array of styles but keeps a focus on threading indelible melodies through novel environments.

Liam participated in the inaugural Source Song Festival in 2014 and the VocalEssence ReMix program in 2015, received second place at the 2018 Sparks & Wiry Cries Minneapolis songSLAM, and attended Art Song Lab in Vancouver in 2019.

When he’s not writing concert music, Liam is writing for himself, setting his own highly personal texts and wrapping them in lush instrumentation.

For a while, Liam was concerned about letting his world of “classical music” mix with his world of “everything else”. But, like many things, genre is a spectrum. He’s now working to remind us that all music has always been “everything else."

www.liammusicmoore.com

Minnesotan writer Marie Loom was the daughter of a patent examiner and a physicist, and traces of science and invention are often found littered throughout her writing. After the publication of her collected poetry With and Without Asparagus was met with universal loathing, she retreated into a very private life, rarely making public appearances. In recent years, Loom's work has been reappraised as a sharp critique of post-GPS America.