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OCTOBER 2009 Just returned from Korea! The five days in Seoul and Incheon City went by so quickly -- and all the people were so gracious and kind to me. The concert was spectacular and the audience of over 2,000 loved every minute of the Incheon City Chorale's wonderfully varied program. In addition to the premiere of Missa Brevis Incheon (which was sung in bravura style) they also did three of my spiritual arrangements. The first half of the program also contained a highly expressive, velvety treatment of the book six of the Monterverdi Madrigals sung as I have never heard them sung before. Bravo! The final portion of the concert contained some enormously fun pieces which had staging and comedic elements to them. The audience walked out with huge smiles on their faces due to the brilliant programming and singing of this amazing choir. Thank you Dr. Yoon and EVERYONE in Korea -- let's do it again soon! Lynne Gackle informs me that my fun
tune
Peace on Earth...and
lots of little crickets (Walton catalog number
HL08501658) is one
of the repertoire pieces for the grade 7-9 honors choir she will lead at
the 2010 Central Division ACDA convention in Cincinnati. This should be
fun, and I may be able to attend. Peace on Earth... is Walton Music's #1
seller for the last two years. Lynne will be using the small cuts in the
piece which you can find
here I have accepted a commission to write a short SATB/piano piece for the Briar Cliff University Singers, directed by the very talented Dr. Sean Burton, for their upcoming tour of Hawaii. We have chosen the text Voices of Earth by the Canadian poet Archibald Lampman. I hope to write a drop dead gorgeous piece on this beautiful text, which ties into the university's theme for the year, Care for Creation. My new friend Hak-won Yoon plans to conduct my Missa Brevis Incheon, which he recently commissioned, during his Incheon City Chorale interest session at the ACDA western Division Convention being held March 3-6, 2010 in Tucson, AZ. The Incheon City Chorale is one of two featured professional choirs performing, the other super duper choir is Chanticleer. I think early in March in Tucson might be an improvement on Chicago in March, so I plan on being there. AUGUST 2009 More news- my commission for the Incheon City Chorale is complete and is in the hands of the choir in Korea. I am pretty pleased with the piece and hope that they are as well. I'm looking forward to hearing a recording of what they do with it! Three new pieces will be coming out from Roger Dean in early 2010. Winter Solstice (SSA/harp or piano) with gorgeous solstice texts by New Mexico poets; The Star, a very fun setting of the anonymous astronomical parody text of Twinkle, twinkle little star) for SA/piano; and Ding Dong Merrily on High (SATB/piano or harp), very upbeat, in 7/8 most of the time. I also finally got pieces reviewed in the Choral Journal- nice reviews for Roger Dean publications Cantigas de Amigo and Life has Loveliness to Sell. FYI, Roger Dean is always happy to provide free perusal scores to directors and also has a free new releases mailing list you can add your name to- if you need assistance signing up for this, let me know and I will help. -------------- We did our final concert at the North Carolina Governor's School on July 24th. This was an amazing program of music about various intertwined aspects of water, war, conflict, resolution. We knew it was an intense program, but I don't think any of us up on the stage realized how amazingly intense it would be with a rapt audience of 600 people in Jones Auditorium. Once again, I was so proud of these 32 singers who never gave up on themselves even when the music was battling us at times in week two of rehearsals. In fact, during their final week of rehearsals they were getting so pumped up about that level of perfection they were seeking that I kind of had to gently cool their jets, as I was afraid they would peak too soon. It was natural for them to be thinking this way, as every night of the final week they were witnessing amazing performances by the dance and theatre groups, and we were the last ones scheduled (for the final Friday night) to show our stuff. I was especially grateful for the parental response after the concert and the fact that Dr. McElreath, head of the school, felt that the choral music performance at the state department of instruction (NC DPI) was one of his own personal summer highlights. To see the repertoire for this concert, go to the conducting page. JULY 2009 We just had our first two concerts at NC Governor's School East. we sang to a packed house two nights in a row and received mind-blowing standing O's both nights. These young singers connected to their audience all night in a variety of ways- straight singing, choreographed pieces, folk music with indigenous instruments, spirituals sung in the best possible manner, etc. what a joy and what fun to see the audience enthusiasm for "classical" music done with style and energy. "Does classical music still matter"? Those two nights it sure did. JUNE/JULY 2009 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, and the plan is to write a piece with texts which suggest the standard mass movements. Thus there really is no literal Latin Kyrie text, rather modern (non-simplistic) poetic texts which, to some extent, reflect the emotion of each mass section. Some people will love this idea, and some people will hate it! 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! -------------- 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 Six New Releases
hit the market (and flew off the shelves) at the ACDA 50th Anniversary
Convention in Oklahoma City, OK. Two pieces from SBMP- Blow ye the
Trumpet Blow (SATB a.c.) and Lake Song (SSA/piano). Form Roger Dean--
Morning Person (SATB/piano 4 hands), A City called Heaven (SSA/piano),
Now to Sleep (SA/piano), and Waltzing with the Moon (treble
UNISON/piano; four short movements and VERY accessible for young
choirs). JANUARY 2009
I will be conducting the Festival
Choir of Madison in a concert which includes the world premiere of
their commissioned piece:
Into This World
American Voices: Composer Conducts Special Guests: Middleton High School Chamber Singers, Thomas Mielke, Director Saturday, February 28, 2009 • 7:30 p.m. Middleton Performing Arts Center, 2100 Bristol Street, Middleton November 2008 Peace on Earth...and lots of little crickets (published by Walton) has sold 9,000 copies in its first few months in print. Way to go, crickets! Thanks to Oliver Branche for a cool text. New sheet music releases out soon: Two new SBMP new
releases due out January 2009; Five new Roger Dean releases out by the
ACDA National Convention in early March 2009 Santa Barbara Music Publishing (www.sbmp.com) will release the following:
Roger Dean will release the following:
The Westminster College Women's Chorus hosted choral
composer and arranger Paul Carey for a workshop
Oct. 28. October 2008 The October 11th women's choir festival in Naperville, IL featuring Belle Voix of Illinois State University, four clinicians, and a number of ambitious area high schools was a very fun day. The non-juried aspect of this was refreshing as the day was all bout great singing and the sharing of music and ideas, not about ratings and trophies. Thanks to Jim Yarbrough and Karyl Carlson for creating this event. And it was great fun to conduct about 150 talented singers in alley Cat Love Song! June 2008 New releases by Walton (Play with your Food!, Peace on Earth...and lots of little crickets), SBMP (Unending Flame- two voicings). UPDATE- all these pieces are selling heavily- a very nice feeling. Unending Flame,is already into its second press run, just after being in release for a few weeks.
April 2008 A large-scale commissioned piece for The Festival Singers (Madison, Wisconsin) will be composed over the summer of 2008. This multi-movement piece will be premiered in the Spring of 2009. November 2007
Santa Barbara Music Press releases two new pieces
this month:
Alley Cat Love Song, (Catalog # 737), very vampy text and tune, in the Sharon Hansen women’s choir series. This should be a big seller- audiences have loved it while it was being performed in ms. There is a recording on the SBMP.com website
Another fun text- Jenny
Kiss’d Me (CAT # 718), in Jerry Blackstone’s SBMP series for TTBB.
This was premiered by the University of Michigan Glee Club a couple
months ago. There is also a recording of this piece on the
SBMP.com website.
Commissions announced for the upcoming
2007-2008 concert season The Nebraska Choral Arts Society, Matthew Harden artistic director, has commissioned a piece for the 25th anniversary celebration of their organization, to be premiered at their annual December Festival of Christmas Brass and Choral Music. The new piece will be scored for children's choir, mixed choir, and brass ensemble.
The Michigan
State University Children's Choir, directed by Grammy winner Mary
Alice Stollak, has commissioned two pieces for the 2006-1007 season.
One of the pieces will be for children's choir and small orchestra.
The Milwaukee
Choral Artists, directed by Sharon Hansen, has commissioned a
piece to commemorate their tenth anniversary, to be premiered in early
2008.
Interested in commissioning a piece for your group? It's not too late
to have a piece specially written for you for 2007-2008.
E-mail me for details. If you have never commissioned a piece of
music before, try it. It's great fun and really quite often brings a
whole new level of excitement and pride to a musical organization.
January 2007 NEW RELEASES!
The Night is Young Walton Music
My Friend Elijah Neil Kjos
Loosin Yelav Roger Dean
Seal Lullaby
Cantigas de Amigo (5 movements) March 2005 Roger Dean, the
select division of the
Lorenz Music
company, will be publishing
Where Go the Boats
in Janet Galvan’s Roots and Wings Series. Check back for publication
date.
And two new double choir pieces!
A New
Commandment
Behold, I Tell You a Mystery Il est ne, le divin enfant
The Wexford Carol The Night Is Young The Latest... The Michigan State University Children's Choir and director Mary Alice Stollak announce Paul Carey as the choice for their 2005 commission. They have recently released their new CD "What Sweeter Music" which features "I Saw Three Ships" and "Cradle Song." Truly stellar peformances!
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