Again imitates the experience of insomnia. The nagging ostinati, repeated harmonic progression, and frustrated arrival at the words “Not Again” demonstrate the cyclical affliction of lying still, unable to calm the mind.

-Sam Scheibe

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Again is a wordless (well, almost wordless...) depiction of insomnia and the problems therein - it is a colorful realisation of the power that voices hold even without narrative devices or text itself.

-Phillip A Cooke

 

Performances

US premier by students of Westminster Choir College at Sam's undergraduate composition recital in January of 2021. 

UK premier by the University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir, March 2022.

Frost Chamber Singers, University of Miami, February 18 2024.