FULL HYMNAL (Harriet Steinke) New Haven CT 2023 Molly Yuko McGuire

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: HYMNAL   
• Composer: Steinke Harriet  
• Libretto: Alessandra Lynch  
• Venue & Opera Company: Firehouse 12, New Haven, Connecticut  
• Recorded: October 3, 2023
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Molly Yuko McGuire
• Conductor: Samuel Fargo Hollister  
• Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: HarrietComposer  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  0:00 Hymnal (2023) opening credits
  0:16 I. Recitation
  5:56 II. Book in my hands
  13:32 III. God as ocean
  18:34 IV. Did they intend the damage?
  24:18 V. In every room
  28:40 VI. Father, I’m rowing
  31:36 VII. Forbidden to ask questions
  36:23 VIII. Once I loved
  41:50 IX. God & this circus
  50:54 X. I am the dreamer

  Harriet Steinke is a composer of concert music. She has been commissioned by chamber ensembles, orchestras, and soloists across the U.S and some of her favorite premieres have been in her hometown city of Detroit, Michigan.

  She received a 2023 Charles Ives scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been awarded fellowships at the Tanglewood, Aspen, and Norfolk summer festivals.

  From 2018-2020 she was composer-in-residence for the Detroit-based new music quartet Virago, who released their debut album of Steinke’s concert-length work Listening for Bells in 2022. Several of her works have also premiered at the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Friday Night Live series, including her piece Let Everything Ring for six grand pianos, which was premiered by the NYC-based piano sextet Grand Band in the DIA’s iconic Diego Rivera courtyard in 2018. Most recently in 2024, the Australian piano-clarinet duo CRUX, made of pianist Lisa Moore and clarinetist Lloyd Van’t Hoff, gave the Detroit premiere of her piece Rituals at the DIA as part of the performance tour for their debut record. Steinke’s five movement work appears on their new album My Place which was released by ABC Classic in January 2025.

  Steinke is currently working with the newly GRAMMY-awarded Akropolis Reed Quintet on a full length instrumental Mass, which premiered in Detroit in June 2025 and will be toured across the country during ARQ’s upcoming seasons. Also this year, she was named one of the finalists for the Beth Morrison Projects NextGen program and will present a newly commissioned one act vocal theatre work at National Sawdust in New York City in 2026, produced by BMP.

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