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MILLENNIUM OVERTURE ~
Another highlight comes with Sarah Meneely- Kyder's Letter
from Italy, 1944.
The Walt Witman-ish text is by the composer's sister, who assembled
it from their father's
wartime letters and diary entries.
The setting is a sensitive one, as befits the subject, and it
is gorgeously sung by baritone Chai-lun Yueh.
Trenchantly dramatic, eerie,
frightening and warmly lyrical as the text requires, Meneely-Kyder's
music goes beneath the surface and explores the complex emotions
of the poem's narrator...
Fanfare - Raymond Tuttle
July/August 2003
As a composer, most notable are those works
that fuse disparate musical traditions into single pieces.
Larger works have been performed by American Music/Theatre Group, City
Singers of Hartford, the Albany Pro Musica Chorus, the Wesleyan
University Orchestra and the New Haven Symphony.
A member of American Composers Alliance, and a founding member
of Connecticut 
Composers, Inc., her
creative endeavors have been rewarded with several grants
and prizes including Yale University's Rena Greenwald
Memorial Prize and several Artist Project
Grants from the
Connecticut
Commission on the Arts.
Upcoming Events:
Commissioned by FRIENDS OF VOCE to write a work for Soprano, Clarinet and piano in 2007 that was performed in February of 2008.
Recently commissioned to write a work for VOCE, an outstanding chorus in Hartford CT, to be performed in Februry of 2008.
Presently working with Voce to complete an enhanced CD recording of all of my musical Christmas Cards to
be released in November of 2008.
Millennium
Overture: Vocal and Instrumental Music by American
Composers.
Click for sound clips of Sarah Meneely Kyder's "Letter
From Italy, 1944