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Composed by Graham Yates. This edition: pdf. 21st Century, Classical. Score. 17 pages. Graham Yates #1290354. Published by Graham Yates (A0.1728373).
Duration: 9 minutes. Songs: 1. The Kiss (1915, Florence Kiper Frank), 2. Your Hands (1923-27, Angelina Weld Grimké), 3. The Rushlight (1913, Michael Mecredy), 4. Episode (1920, Winifred Bryher). Composer's Notes:
“Always Here” is a collection of songs I composed for a Pride-themed concert in Austin, TX in 2025. Mezzo soprano Page Stephens collaborated with me for the premiere. The cycle features texts by queer poets from over a century ago that I found published on Dick Whyte’s Substack, Forgotten Poets. Whyte generously shared his research, encouragement, and knowledge of the poems and their writers with me.
Each poem invites us to consider not just the writer’s unique experience as a queer person living in the distant past, but the poem’s mundanity, too. Though the writers’ lives were (arguably) much different than those of the queer community today regarding visibility and openness, we see them grapple with the natures of love, relationships, and humanity in much the same way we ourselves might, or another of their contemporaries might. In fact, we may not even realize we are reading queer texts except by knowing something about the authors.
“Always Here” reminds us that queer people have always existed, and that their experiences continue to shape our own. Across time, we are all worthy of expressing and sharing our experiences, both because of and in spite of our unique biographies. We are worthy in the diversity and commonality of our perspectives.
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Composed by Graham Yates. This edition: pdf. 21st Century, Classical. Score. 17 pages. Graham Yates #1290354. Published by Graham Yates (A0.1728373).
Duration: 9 minutes. Songs: 1. The Kiss (1915, Florence Kiper Frank), 2. Your Hands (1923-27, Angelina Weld Grimké), 3. The Rushlight (1913, Michael Mecredy), 4. Episode (1920, Winifred Bryher). Composer's Notes:
“Always Here” is a collection of songs I composed for a Pride-themed concert in Austin, TX in 2025. Mezzo soprano Page Stephens collaborated with me for the premiere. The cycle features texts by queer poets from over a century ago that I found published on Dick Whyte’s Substack, Forgotten Poets. Whyte generously shared his research, encouragement, and knowledge of the poems and their writers with me.
Each poem invites us to consider not just the writer’s unique experience as a queer person living in the distant past, but the poem’s mundanity, too. Though the writers’ lives were (arguably) much different than those of the queer community today regarding visibility and openness, we see them grapple with the natures of love, relationships, and humanity in much the same way we ourselves might, or another of their contemporaries might. In fact, we may not even realize we are reading queer texts except by knowing something about the authors.
“Always Here” reminds us that queer people have always existed, and that their experiences continue to shape our own. Across time, we are all worthy of expressing and sharing our experiences, both because of and in spite of our unique biographies. We are worthy in the diversity and commonality of our perspectives.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not
print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
Preview: Always Here: A Song Cycle of Forgotten Queer Poetry
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