SOMETHING EXCITING
SATB
6 minutes
I couldn’t have made this piece without the collaboration of the wonderful singers of the NYCGB.
We spoke about how coming out as LGBTQ+ to others isn’t just a single occasion, rather a never-ending series of small — yet significant — conversations.
I scrolled way back on my phone to 2017, when I came out to my Dad via WhatsApp. I was too scared to tell him in person, so instead I wrote to him over text:
…I have something exciting to tell you.
I didn’t know how to say it, but thought I should say…
I didn’t know how to say it, but thought I should say…
This was a moment of both elation and nervousness.
Something Exciting is an explosion of these two feelings: ecstatic repetitions give way to quieter echoes, creating that strange, adrenaline-induced feeling of time passing both slowly and quickly at once.
Premiered by NYCGB Fellowship 2022 at Royal Albert Hall.
If you like SOMETHING EXCITING, you may also be interested in: SOFTLY or ELEVEN PIPERS PIPING