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I will be leading the 32 voice
women's choir at North Carolina Governor's School East, based at
Meredith College (for more info on this incredible program, visit
www.ncgovschool.org This is an
amazing program for 800 gifted HS juniors from all over North Carolina
in all disciplines. The performing arts program especially is geared
toward challenging young people to discover cutting edge arts-- thus no
Mozart, instead John Tavener, or thus... no Brahms, but instead Aarvo
Part. This is going to be way cool, and Sherri, Aidan and I love North
Carolina anyway, ya know! I'll blog about this and post progress,
concert dates, etc. We are going to present two very amazing programs--
and actually, the second program will be mind-blowingly deep and very
theatrical.
I have been asked by the Incheon
City Chorale (the Korean Choir that blew people away at the recent ACDA
national convention) to write a short mass for Fall 09 performance-
perhaps other works as well. This is an amazing opportunity, as I know I
can write ANYTHING for them and they WILL sing it! The mass project is
something I will tackle in my spare time while in Raleigh.
I have just been asked by Nancy
Menk to be one of the clinicians for her 25th anniversary women's HS
choir invitational in South Bend, IN. Nancy is awesome- and how
amazing is it that she has been doing this now for 25 years?! This event
will be Nov 19th-20th.
Roger Dean has just announced
they will be publishing three more of my pieces. They will be out Feb
2010- more info later, but I can say that one is
Winter Solstice, a very gorgeous holiday piece for SSA/harp
or piano
Sales at Walton of
Peace on Earth...and lots of little crickets continue
to be through the roof. Also at Walton, more and more performances
lately by college choirs of Play with your
Food!, including a very solid and enjoyable rendition which I
attended last night by the DePaul University Singers right here in
Chicago, led by the very animated and fun Clayton Parr- great
performance (and some very cool programming overall) and a BIG THANKS
from me!
Late March 2009
Coming up for this summer- Loosin Yelav,
SATB version, will be in the directors choir repertoire for the Illinois
ACDA summer convention, directed by Rick Bjella. Play with your Food
will be in the repertoire for this summer's Interlochen Music School and
Festival, and some of my advanced SATB pieces will be sung at the Iowa
ACDA summer sessions in late July.
March 2009
IN PROGRESS: I'm going to gradually publish
score errata (there are only a few) and performance suggestions for
pieces. I will place them on each piece's webpage, but here are some
right away I want people to see, as the two pieces below are being
performed a lot right now:
ERRATA in Alley Cat Love Song, published by Santa Barbara; opening
piano tempo should be quarter note equal to 76-80, NOT 120.
In addition, in the first measure, the very top note on beat three is a
tied over C#, not the odd D natural some computer gremlin threw in just
before we printed the piece.
We'll fix
these errors at the next reprint!
Peace on
Earth...and lots of little crickets: Please visit the page for that
tune for some performance ideas (new gnus- this piece has
now sold 9,000 copies in its first few months in print- go, crickets!)
AND some nice performances on
YouTube.
Search the song title!
Check out these New Releases
Upcoming Personal Appearances
I will be at the following performances/events. Email me for more details, and please,
introduce yourself --
I would love to meet you!
April 25, 2009 - Hinsdale, IL
Premiere of Prairie
Songs, a fun piece with excellent early texts by
Carl Sandburg, commissioned by the Hinsdale Chorale, Hinsdale,
IL
May 28, 2009 - Upper St. Clair, PA
Premiere of three African-American spiritual
arrangements commissioned by the Music Boosters of Upper St. Clair
HS, Upper St. Clair, PA
July 2009- Normal, IL
I was going to be at the Illinois ACDA summer convention, and
what I said earlier was "Karyl Carlson and Sarah Graham are hosting this for the first
time- how could I miss that? Rick Bjella will be conducting my
Loosin Yelav with the directors'
choir and Karyl is featuring my Lake Song
in a reading session". But now the following has lured me
away...
June 7th through July 25th-
Raleigh, North Carolina
I will be leading the 32 voice women's choir
at North Carolina Governor's School East, based at Meredith
College (for more info on this incredible program, visit
www.ncgovschool.org This is
an amazing program for 800 gifted HS juniors from all over North
Carolina in all disciplines. The performing arts program especially
is geared toward challenging young people to discover cutting edge
arts-- thus no Mozart, instead John Tavener, or thus... no Brahms,
but instead Aarvo Part. This is going to be way cool, and Sherri,
Aidan and I love North Carolina anyway, ya know! I'll blog about
this and post progress, concert dates, etc. We are going to present
two very amazing programs-- and actually, the second program will be
mind-blowing.