<div style="overflow-wrap:break-word;margin:0px auto 1em;padding:0px;font-family:Raleway, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:1;font-size:16px !important;color:rgb(81, 81, 81) !important;box-sizing:inherit">The new Virtual Chicago songSLAM remains open through May 31st at 5pm. Online audience members will vote with their dollars, starting at just $1, for their favorite team to win. The winning team’s composer will receive the first ever Chicago songSLAM commission prize: $1,000 commission from Fourth Coast Ensemble The funds that each team raises during the virtual event will be split 50/50 with the team and Fourth Coast Ensemble, who will use their portion to reinvest in future competitions and new art song initiatives.  On May 31st, total funds raised will be announced on our website and social media, including the $1,000 commission prize.</div>TEAM #4Brandon Young-Eleazar, composer & pianistMolly Jennings, vocalist The Oracle Was Stonedwhat would have happened had Achilles stayed entwined with you, his lover, in your bed, who could feel a pack of Trojans through his letterman jacket but also the well of the water styx he kept in a flask as he tried to end his lie in a kiss to the crook of your neck with dyed body and soul, eyelids a vibrant purple dust with hair an inch shorter and awkward to touch before he fled to war Achilles wrote you a poem a contradictory tea of how diadems of knowledge brew ichor how even gods fear the future of the curse of polytheism he reads the plight of Adonis and the destruction of a field of anemone flowers the theft of his mother’s newborn and how you both might suffer the loss of a child but you warn him that for taking these grains of salt how Gods will notice him plucking more prophecies from the bowl of pomegranate seeds and ambrosia his pipe colludes with him more than you confirms to him that Zeus is away worshipping Ceres goddess of cereal hoping to see answers in a potion of milk and honey and fennel ignoring the texts of his ex, Hera and ignorant to the inherent theft of the future at the hands of your lover they both waste away in a dank darkness high on a chronol haze and you are all that is left to demand, from Zeus the burial of your love singed and stoned your love to a man, now immortal, but not where it counts. ----- Molly Jennings (they/she) is a Soprano from Atlanta, Georgia. They are actively pursuing their Masters in Vocal Performance and Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Jennings earned a Bachelors in Vocal Performance from Kennesaw State University and has worked with the Atlanta Opera chorus in their 2022 production of Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini.  Brandon Young-Eleazar (they/them) is a musician-educator-activist in their fourth year of undergrad in Choral Music Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Brandon sees music as a message of the history (yet-to-be) made, and a method of change that has (yet-to-be)come, and a medium to engage with/in.

Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{lastname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">Last name, On behalf of Brandon & Molly, thanks so much for your vote, and for your support of new art songs!  Exactly half of your voting dollars go to these artists, and the other half supports Fourth Coast Ensemble as they continue to create and foster new songs and the artists who care about them! Live song and prosper,Fourth Coast Ensemble

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<div>The new Virtual Chicago songSLAM remains open through May 31st at 5pm. Online audience members will vote with their dollars, starting at just $1, for their favorite team to win. The winning team’s composer will receive the first ever Chicago songSLAM commission prize: $1,000 commission from Fourth Coast Ensemble The funds that each team raises during the virtual event will be split 50/50 with the team and Fourth Coast Ensemble, who will use their portion to reinvest in future competitions and new art song initiatives.  On May 31st, total funds raised will be announced on our website and social media, including the $1,000 commission prize.</div>TEAM #4Brandon Young-Eleazar, composer &amp; pianistMolly Jennings, vocalist The Oracle Was Stonedwhat would have happened had Achilles stayed entwined with you, his lover, in your bed, who could feel a pack of Trojans through his letterman jacket but also the well of the water styx he kept in a flask as he tried to end his lie in a kiss to the crook of your neck with dyed body and soul, eyelids a vibrant purple dust with hair an inch shorter and awkward to touch before he fled to war Achilles wrote you a poem a contradictory tea of how diadems of knowledge brew ichor how even gods fear the future of the curse of polytheism he reads the plight of Adonis and the destruction of a field of anemone flowers the theft of his mother’s newborn and how you both might suffer the loss of a child but you warn him that for taking these grains of salt how Gods will notice him plucking more prophecies from the bowl of pomegranate seeds and ambrosia his pipe colludes with him more than you confirms to him that Zeus is away worshipping Ceres goddess of cereal hoping to see answers in a potion of milk and honey and fennel ignoring the texts of his ex, Hera and ignorant to the inherent theft of the future at the hands of your lover they both waste away in a dank darkness high on a chronol haze and you are all that is left to demand, from Zeus the burial of your love singed and stoned your love to a man, now immortal, but not where it counts. ----- Molly Jennings (they/she) is a Soprano from Atlanta, Georgia. They are actively pursuing their Masters in Vocal Performance and Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Jennings earned a Bachelors in Vocal Performance from Kennesaw State University and has worked with the Atlanta Opera chorus in their 2022 production of Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini.  Brandon Young-Eleazar (they/them) is a musician-educator-activist in their fourth year of undergrad in Choral Music Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Brandon sees music as a message of the history (yet-to-be) made, and a method of change that has (yet-to-be)come, and a medium to engage with/in.

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Team 5: "The Oracle Was Stoned" (Music by Brandon Young-Eleazar | Text by Chester Wilson III)

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