Anne Kilstofte: Composer

Orchestral Works

Orchestra and Chorus

Requiem for Still Voices (2002), SATB divisi, Mezzo-Soprano, Symphony Orchestra
Duration: 40 minutes
            Texts: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Boleyn, John Galsworthy, Rainier Maria Rilke, Charlotte Mew, Walt Whitman, Eugene Field, traditional Latin movement - Lux Aeterna, commissioned and premiered by the Cherry Creek Chorale and the Arapahoe Philharmonic Orchestra, Denver, Colorado

            Individual movements can stand alone
God’s World, duration: 4.30 minutes
Rock Me on Sleep, duration: 13 minutes – includes 2 mezzo-soprano solos,
            Dream Sequence I: So Might it Be, duration: 3 minutes
            Dream Sequence II: Too Much Music, duration: 5 minutes
Smile Death, SATB a cappella, duration: 4 minutes
The Ship, duration: 3 minutes
Come, Lovely,duration: 6 minutes
The Divine Lullaby, mezzo-soprano solo, duration: 3 minutes
Lux Aeterna, duration: 5 minutes

Orchestration:

3 Flutes, 1 doubling picc
2 Oboes
1 Eng. Hn
2 B flat clarinets
1 B flat bass clarinet
2 Bassoons
4 French Horns (F)
3 B flat Trumpets
3 Trombones (3rd doubling Bass Trombone)
1 Tuba

Percussion: 3-4 players

Timpani
Acoustical piano
Harp
16 1st Violins
16 2nd Violins
10 Violas
12 Violoncellos
6 Contrabasses

Chamber Orchestra

Diagrams (2005), SATB divisi, and chamber orchestra, duration: 10 minutes. Text by Daniel Burnham and Carl Schurz. Commissioned and premiered by Hamline University Choir and Orchestra,

2 flutes, 1 doubles piccolo
oboe/English horn (double)
clarinet
bass clarinet
bassoon
2 French Horns
2 trumpets
2 trombones
1 timpani
1 percussion
12 1st violins
8 2nd violins
6 violas
4 cellos
2 contrabasses

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (1992), narrator and orchestra or chamber ensemble, duration: 12 minutes. Text by Eugene Field; premiered on Entourage Eclat Concert Series.