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Volume 98 Issue 8
WATER IS
THE
WIDE
Senior vocal performance major Lorenzo Butler publishes original work with Imagine Music Publishing Cheyenne Cole
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the CU Centennial Singers and the CU Percussion ensemble, Butler has always Managing Editor been involved in music in an academic setting. Cameron senior Lorenzo Butler’s As a child, he found music all around rendition of the Scottish folk song “The Water is Wide” is available for purchase him; his mother sang to him, his father blared the radio and older siblings shared on imaginemusicpublishing.com. their own music. Imagine Music Publishing licensed “Music was already a part of me,” he and published Butler’s original said. “It was this habit that was already composition this semester. there that I don’t think I can ever escape In an arrangement theory course, from.” Butler’s professor tasked the class with But his own first music discovery was arranging a choral piece. Butler searched for a piece, stumbled the rock band Coldplay. “They influenced how I listened to upon “The Water is Wide” in a choral music and how I treated dissonances or the book and remembered the first time clashy sounds that you hear in music,” he he heard his best friend sing it in high said. “Everything has this flow, and they school. know how to make you feel.” “The song is very beautiful, and it Butler added piano, vocal harmonies really fit his voice well,” he said. “It was just stuck in my head for months - to see and key changes to “The Water is Wide” and showed it to his compositional my friend open up as an artist because professor, Dr. Gregory Hoepfner, he was really shy.” who encouraged him to submit it for Butler knew in that moment that publication. this was the piece he wanted to make Hoepfner said he was not surprised his own. that Imagine Publishing picked up Butler’s “It’s a combination of: nothing piece. is impossible, you just have to think “It’s quality, professional work. And it outside the box, and different struggles of life, love and happiness — that spoke has a market,” he said. “There are always people looking for this kind of composition. to me,” he said. He found the lyrics of the first verse It’s a well-written choral piece and based on a familiar tune that many people like.” meaningful. Hoepfner said this is an “The water is wide / I can’t cross over accomplishment that will take Butler far in / But neither have I wings to fly / So I’ll build a boat that can carry to / And the music profession. “If nothing else,” he said. “I hope this both shall row / My love and I.” gives him some validation for all the hard Butler said the soothing tune, work that he has done these last few years. although it originates from Scotland, serves as a reminder of his Irish heritage. He is a very talented young man.” Butler will debut “The Water is Wide” “The song has this comforting folklike melody, which you can pretty much with the Centennial Singers at the annual choir concert at 7:30 p.m., April 26, in the sing anywhere,” he said. A member of the CU Concert Choir, University Theatre.
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