Dr. Shay asked me once if I played with myself while I practiced voice. I'm sure she meant play the piano...

I just finished my Fantasia for Clarinet and Piano. And my teacher and I have been bouncing ideas banck and forth about my next project.

So far, I'd like it to be for Male Choir, Harp (?), and Percussion. Kurek (my composition teacher) went crazy with the idea, and started coming up with some wild thoughts like rainsticks and stuff. Some things were inspiring (the rainstick idea was incredibly thought- provoking), and some were just crazy (mostly my ideas were the crazy ones).
I'm enlisting your help. Any texts, instruments, themes and anything you might think of would be AWESOME. Please leave me comments.

Springboard:

• It will have to involve male choir
• I'm liking the rainstick idea (are there poems that would lend themselves to it)
• I'm a postmodernist classical, neo-romantic, jazz, gospel composer
• Other than that I'm open...