Lullabye (In Memoriam S.H.) by Brett Abi...

By Brett Abigaña

Instrumentation: Flute, Violin, Harp (Chamber)
Duration: 4 minutes
Grade Level: 4

Lullaby (In Memoriam S.H.)
This was written the night after the Sandy Hook Massacre. I came home from school after seeing the news, and needed to just hold Caeli for a while (she was 7 months old). So, I was feeding her, and I ended up singing this to her, making it up as I went and crying all over her in the process. I got a commission a few days later from Ensemble E451, for whom this was written, and I couldn’t shake this lullaby or the circumstances that created it, so there it was. It’s a deceivingly difficult piece to play, but it’s also very personal to me.

100% of the composer’s proceeds will be donated to Sandy Hook Promise, a charity dedicated to protecting children from gun violence.