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No! Don’t go!
Read the story behind this work and share your #ReasonsToStay:
Don’t let your worst day be your last. The storm is strong, but it will pass. You think you can’t go on another day, but please stay. Just stay.
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Hope is real. Help is real. You are breath, you are life, you are beaut y, you are light. Your story is not over. You are not a burden to anyone. Please stay. Just stay. [Text adapted from tweets using #IKeptLiving – expressions of hope from those who battle depression and chose to live.]
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c. 6:30
About the Work Commissioned by the Ohio Choral Directors Association College & Universit y Commissioning Consortium. North Carolina State Universit y (Daniel Monek, consortium coordinator) Ashland Universit y (Ron Blackley) Bowling Green State Universit y (Mark Munson, Tim Cloeter) Capital Universit y (Lynda Hassler) Cleveland State Universit y (Brian Bailey) College of Wooster (Lisa Wong) Denison Universit y (Wei Cheng) Hiram Universit y (Dawn Sonntag) Kent State Universit y (Scott MacPherson) Malone Universit y (Jon Peterson) Marietta College (Jay Doughert y)
Miami Universit y (Bill Bausano, Jeremy Jones) Mount Vernon Nazarene Universit y (Bob Tocheff) Muskingum Universit y (Zebulon Highben) Ohio Christian Universit y (Dione Bennet) Otterbein Universit y (Gayle Walker) Sinclair Communit y College (Nolan Long) Universit y of Akron (Marie Bucoy- Calavan) Universit y of Dayton (Robert Jones) Universit y of Mount Union (Grant Cook) Universit y of Toledo (Brad Pierson) Wright State Universit y (Hank Dahlman) Xavier Universit y (Rich Schnipke) Youngstown State Universit y (Hae-Jong Lee)
About the Composer Considered “highly imaginative…with big ideas” (Baltimore Sun) and “stirring and uplifting” (Miami Herald), award-winning composer Jake Runestad (b. 1986) has received commissions and performances from leading ensembles and organizations such as Washington National Opera, the Netherlands Radio Choir, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble, Seraphic Fire, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare. Dubbed a “choral rockstar” by American Public Media, Jake is one of the most frequently performed composers in the U.S.A. Jake Runestad holds a Master’s degree in composition from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins Universit y where he studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts. He has also studied extensively with acclaimed composer Libby Larsen. A native of Rockford, IL, Mr. Runestad currently lives in Minneapolis, MN and his music is published by Boosey & Hawkes and JR Music. Find out more at: JakeRunestad.com