NOTUS & Dominick DiOrio - What Is Ours: Music for an America in Progress (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

There are generally two ways one can face a crisis. One can give up, or one can persevere and use it to one’s advantage. Choir director Dominick DiOrio definitely chose the latter during the pandemic, turning his reflections and sentiments about it into a profoundly engaging, almost philosophical choral album titled WHAT IS OURS. DiOrio conjures a formidable cross-section of music by a range of contemporary composers that not only reflects the diversity and multiplicity of modern-day America, but also its underbelly of struggle, challenge, and an eventual triumph of humanity.

Tracklist
01. Cordero: ¡Ayúdame!
02. Ramsey: Stomp on the Fire
03. Esmail: Tuttarana (Version for SATB Choir)
04. II: First Light
05. Amick: Night Sky Songs: No. 1, The Dark
06. Amick: Night Sky Songs: No. 2, The Other Side of the Valley
07. DiOrio: It Takes Your Breath Away
08. Smiley: Wire You Here
09. Thompson: America Will Be!
10. DiOrio: A Chain Is Broken