“The text of Living’s a Gift is an amalgamation of poetry written by Mimi Broderick’s middle school choir students at MS 51 William Alexander Middle School in Brooklyn. It is the only piece directly about living during this pandemic, but because it opens the album, it frames the rest of Shyu’s discourse on loss. Textually dense, increasingly I felt the accumulated weight of isolation on these kids as their words formed a cloud of bedroom adolescent musings.”⁣ ⁣ Read Tamzin Elliott’s review of Jen Shyu and Jade Tongue’s album “Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses” in San Francisco Classical Voice! The multilingual and genre-crossing album includes an arrangement of “Living’s A Gift,” a piece Shyu co-wrote with middle school students as a part of American Composers Forum’s #ChoralQuest program. ⁣ ⁣ To read the full review, visit the link in our bio! #NewMusic #Composer #MusicCreator #JenShyu #Choir #Choral #MusicEducation