Our Queer Future (TTBB)

$3.50

Lyrics derived from poems by Leo Herrera
Music by Ash
Commissioned for the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus by John J. Atorino, Artistic Director

General Details
TTBB and piano
4 voice parts (divisi on finale note for Tenor 2s)
Well-suited for small ensembles (8-12 voices), large choruses (100+), or in between
Duration: approx. 3:50

Vocal Ranges
Tenor 1: C#3-Ab4
Tenor 2: C#3-F4
Baritone: Bb2-E4
Bass: Bb2-D4

Score Video

$3.50 per copy

Looking for alterations for your ensemble? Contact ash@musicbyash.com.

Delivery: PDFs of all purchased choral titles will be emailed to you within 24 hours.

Lyrics derived from poems by Leo Herrera
Music by Ash
Commissioned for the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus by John J. Atorino, Artistic Director

General Details
TTBB and piano
4 voice parts (divisi on finale note for Tenor 2s)
Well-suited for small ensembles (8-12 voices), large choruses (100+), or in between
Duration: approx. 3:50

Vocal Ranges
Tenor 1: C#3-Ab4
Tenor 2: C#3-F4
Baritone: Bb2-E4
Bass: Bb2-D4

Score Video

$3.50 per copy

Looking for alterations for your ensemble? Contact ash@musicbyash.com.

Delivery: PDFs of all purchased choral titles will be emailed to you within 24 hours.

Text (as it appears in the work):

We were not taught: to think about our future, to think about our spirit.
We spend our lives: digging up our history, banished from religions,
focused on our bodies, focused on our present.

So we educate and protest, we sew grief into a quilt,
we use our words like scalpels, we dazzle with fury…

Will that be enough? Will that be enough?
We educate and protest. We sew grief into a quilt.
Will that be enough? Will that be enough?
We use our words like scalpels. We dazzle with fury.

Our progress has always been: ten steps forward, six steps back.
Our Movement’s constant circle is: sky-high victory, fiery defeat,
sky-high verdict, fiery defeat.

So we educate and protest, we sew grief into a quilt,
we use our words like scalpels, we dazzle with fury…

Will that be enough? Will that be enough?
We educate and protest. We sew grief into a quilt.
Will that be enough? Will that be enough?
We use our words like scalpels. We dazzle with fury.

Enough! Will it be enough?
We were never promised linear progress.
Yes, it gets better, but also impossible in ways you can’t imagine,
cause this world lacks imagination for people like you.
So, imagining your Queer future is a form of prayer, a prayer.

So we will educate and protest. We’ll sew grief into a quilt.
We will use our words like scalpels. We’ll dazzle with fury!

That will be enough. That will be enough.
Imagine your future! Create your Queer future,
and there will be enough, there’ll always be enough
Sundays for your Queer divinity! 
Imagine your future! Our Queer Future!