<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 #8Caleb Wayman, composer & pianistStephen Burdsall, vocalist Louisiana Oak I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any companion it grew there, glistening out with joyous leaves of dark green, And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself; But I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves, standing all alone there without its friend, its lover- -For I knew that I cou;d not; And I plucked a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss, and brought it away – and I have placed it in sight in my room, It is not needed to remind me as of my friends, (for I believe lately I think of little else,) Yet it remains to me a curious token - it makes me thing of manly love, For all that, and though the live oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary in a wide flat space, uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near - I know very well I could not --- A recent graduate from the University of Illinois, with a masters in Vocal Coaching and Accompanying, Caleb Wayman has deeply loved music since childhood. With his undergrad in Vocal Performance, Caleb has been deeply entrenched in the world of voice and has a great love for singers.  Stephen Burdsall, a Philadelphia-born baritone and pedagogue, is a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying with Prof. Nathan Gunn. Also an avid teacher, Stephen serves as the teaching assistant for the department of Lyric Theatre, where he both lectures and maintains a full studio of private students.

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 Caleb & Stephen, 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 #8Caleb Wayman, composer &amp; pianistStephen Burdsall, vocalist Louisiana Oak I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any companion it grew there, glistening out with joyous leaves of dark green, And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself; But I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves, standing all alone there without its friend, its lover- -For I knew that I cou;d not; And I plucked a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss, and brought it away – and I have placed it in sight in my room, It is not needed to remind me as of my friends, (for I believe lately I think of little else,) Yet it remains to me a curious token - it makes me thing of manly love, For all that, and though the live oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary in a wide flat space, uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near - I know very well I could not --- A recent graduate from the University of Illinois, with a masters in Vocal Coaching and Accompanying, Caleb Wayman has deeply loved music since childhood. With his undergrad in Vocal Performance, Caleb has been deeply entrenched in the world of voice and has a great love for singers.  Stephen Burdsall, a Philadelphia-born baritone and pedagogue, is a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying with Prof. Nathan Gunn. Also an avid teacher, Stephen serves as the teaching assistant for the department of Lyric Theatre, where he both lectures and maintains a full studio of private students.

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Team 9: "Louisiana Oak" (Music by Caleb Wayman | Text by Walt Whitman)

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