Dan Locklair’s Since Dawn Now Available in Version for SATB Chorus and Two Pianos

May 19, 2015

For Immediate Release

Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting

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Dan Locklair’s Since Dawn, with a text by Maya Angelou, is now available in a new version for SATB chorus with 2-piano accompaniment. Originally composed in 1996 as a tone poem for narrator, chorus and orchestra, it is based on Angelou’s On the Pulse of Morning.

 

As with the orchestra version, the new two-piano edition is available through Subito Music Corporation – http://www.subitomusic.com/.

 

The composer writes about Since Dawn, “Being the first poet since Robert Frost to be asked to create a poem for an American presidential inauguration, Maya Angelou in On the Pulse of Morning both challenged our nation and offered renewed hope as she read her poem at the 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Although the poem was created to be a part of a national political function, the significance of the poem goes far beyond the event for which it was created. As all quality art should be able to do, the poem clearly stands on its own as a work of art as it addresses all of creation.”

 

“I have long admired the many aspects of Maya Angelou’s creative work and value her both as a person and as a colleague. From the beginning of this project I was honored to have had her strong support and encouragement toward the creation of this, the first, musical setting of her On the Pulse of Morning.”

 

Dan Locklair’s music is widely performed throughout the U.S. and around the world. His catalog includes symphonic works, a ballet, an opera, chamber, instrumental, vocal and choral compositions. Locklair’s commissioned compositions have been performed by musicians worldwide, including the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Kansas City Symphony, the St. Louis Orchestra, the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys of New York City and the Saint Paul’s Cathedral Choir of London. Broadcasts of it have included Vatican Radio, Czech Radio, Radio Finland, NPR, the BBC and the CBC. His latest CD is the critically acclaimed Tapestries, Choral Music of Dan Locklair on MSR Classics (MS 1463). Recordings of his works are also available on Naxos, Ondine, Koch, Albany, Loft, Priory (UK) and other labels. His primary publishers are Ricordi and Subito. Dan Locklair is Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

 

More information about him, including a bio, list of works and discography at http://www.locklair.com.

 

For photos or press inquiries about Dan Locklair, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or .

 

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