Composition
Gretchen has written a wide variety of original compositions. Drawing on her various talents in vocals and piano, she, with her producer Dehner Franks, released her album “Draw Close” which showcases her diversity of songs. You can download a select track below:
Track 4 Add To The Flowers a song for Princess Diana
Track 9 I Wonder When I Will See You Again
“After being commissioned to write some country tunes, they just kept comin’! In Your Eyes came quickly one day in my kitchen.”
To order this CD, or commission original works for any event, feel free to contact her.
Draw Close
1. In your Eyes
2. Come Find Me
3. Come On Home
4. Add To The Flowers
5. Draw Close
6. Symphony of Brotherhood (with Choir)
7. Biko-First Meeting
8. Have You Heard
9.Symphony of Brotherhood (Duet)
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Also available in sheet music: DANCE - piano piece for intermediate level:
Download DANCE by Gretchen Hewitt
This firey piece was influenced by hearing Leonard Bernstein’s music as a child. The piece was started at the age of 12. I wrote the middle section and finished it just last year! My 13 year old student, Alexis, performed DANCE on the last Student Recital on January 31, 2009.
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Through COCA Gretchen and an art instructor create an opera with the COCA summer campers (ages 6-8). Story line, music, props and costumes come alive throughout the length of the camp and is presented to friends and family at the end of the session.
In 2002 Gretchen was invited by Barbara Harbach, a composer and instructor at University of Missouri-St Louis to participate in a concert of 21st Century St Louis Female Composers. For the concert Gretchen and wrote and performed with two colleagues, Leon Burke and Lynn Hague, a song cycle for voice, piano and violin intitled “Birdsong” music set to the poems of Rumi.
