IOCSF Live: "Pieces of My Heart" by Lauren Bydalek (12/18/21)

Live performance of Lauren Bydalek's "Pieces of My Heart" by IOCSF. Recorded live on December 18th, 2021 at "Freshly Squeezed: Juicy New Music from Today's Premium Composers" at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco.
Zane Fiala, Artistic Director
Zach Miley, recording engineer
Lauren Bydalek, composer (www.laurenlynnmusic.com)
For information about IOC: www.iocsf.org
Text by the composer:
I have left pieces of my heart
All across the world,
And I have been working my whole life Just to leave where I’ve come from.
Searching for answers
To the questions I didn’t know, Craving freedom
From the black and white routine.
Some have the path fall before them Some are caught entangled Venturing to make a way
In a journey not foreseen.
And now that I’ve wandered a distance away,
I don’t even know where I’d go Besides the places that I’ve been Or the one that I call home.
Taking for granted
The wide open spaces Ignoring the sky brimming With kaleidoscope sunsets.
I have left pieces of my heart
All across the world,
But they’re not left in the places I’ve been They’re with the people I’ve met.
Composition © 2019 Lauren Bydalek. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Audio and video recording © 2021 International Orange Chorale of San Francisco. All rights reserved.

[@giacomodigrigoli1210]

God, I love this piece! Such beautiful work from Lauren Bydalek. And the soloists are so :chefs_kiss: !