The writing of David Ashley White demonstrates a varied approach to texture, mood, and voicing. His choral cycle, Mark the Music!, takes its title from Lorenzo's Admonition in The Merchant of Venice. With texts found in Shakespeare's plays The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, The Tempest and Twelfth Night, his three movements are scored for mixed chorus. Directors are free to program one, two or three of the movements as dictated by the needs of the ensemble. There are also movements for sopr...

I. Lorenzo's admonition - II. Under the greenwood tree - III. Blow - blow thou winter wind