Project Encore: Choral Works Awaiting Second Performances
Posted on Mar 16, 2010
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Filed under: Choral, Cycle of Friends
Last year the New York chorus Schola Cantorum on Hudson initiated their Project Encore™ initiative, an effort to promote second performances of choral works that have received premiere performances and nothing since. It is a great and much needed idea: a juried central repository complete with instrumentation, text, program notes and even audio excerpts...
Read MoreSetting Chinese Poetry in Translation
Posted on Aug 3, 2006
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Filed under: Art Song, Chinese, Composing, Current Work, Cycle of Friends, Poetry
While I wait for some red tape to clear around one project, I’ve decided to go ahead with another one (and see how disciplined I can be about finishing it quickly). Now is the time for the song cycle I’ve had in the pipeline for a while now. Among the texts used in my 1996 chorus/orchestra piece Cycle of Friends are translations by Innes Herdan of...
Read MoreAn Old Favorite: Cycle of Friends Turns 10
Posted on May 3, 2006
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Filed under: Chinese, Choral, Commission, Cycle of Friends, Emily Dickinson, Past Work, Poetry, Sappho
Today was the 10th anniversary of the premiere of my first commissioned work. Cycle of Friends, for soprano, chorus and chamber orchestra, was premiered on May 3rd, 1996 by the Music Group of Philadelphia. Artistic Director Sean Deibler had been one of my undergraduate teachers, and has been a mentor and all-around guru ever since. I was very lucky to be one...
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