Christmas is coming and David Rain has written a totally new version of Good King Wenceslas! “I love the Wenceslas story, but I always struggled with the original song’s placement of “las” (as in Wenceslas) on the downbeat. As a kid, I even thought the words were “Good King Wences last looked out.” Using the […]
Community Choir Seeks New Singers in Central Maine
The Colby-Kennebec Choral Society (CKCS) invites all interested singers to join it for its fall program “Canções D’Além Mar,” or “Songs from Across the Sea.” Rehearsals start on Tuesday, September 12, and will continue on Tuesdays, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m., in the new Gordon Center for the Performing Arts at Colby College in Waterville. The […]
SATB setting of Antognini’s “EVERY CHILD HAS KNOWN GOD”
Dear conductors, I’m happy to let you know that the SATB setting (with piano) of my piece “EVERY CHILD HAS KNOWN GOD”, on a poem by Hafiz, is now available at Edition ICOT in Japan (digital download possible). ORDER HERE LISTEN TO THE SSA + piano version Enjoy! Ivo Antognini
Welcome Saunder Choi to Graphite Marketplace!
Welcome Saunder Choi! Contributing Editor: Jonathan Campbell Graphite proudly welcomes Los Angeles-based Filipino composer and choral artist Saunder Choi to Graphite Marketplace! His works have been performed internationally by various groups including Conspirare, the Philippine Madrigal Singers, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Chorale, World Youth Choir, Brightwork New Music, People Inside […]
More Christmas in August
Dear Directors and Friends More Christmas in the heat of August from Carl Fischer. Getting permission from William Copper (lyricist), I have “Come, Come All Ye Shepherds”, SATB. Thanks for Carl Fischer for this lovely studio performance. https://www.carlfischer.com/cm9413-come-2c-come-all-ye-shepherds.html
At Thy Voice – by Patrick Murray
In his 1898 poem, Charles G.D. Roberts, one of Canada’s most prominent confederation-era poets and a keen follower of Emerson and Thoreau, vividly evokes the transcendentalist theme of the sublime in nature. Patrick Murray’s own musical response to the poem grows out of a simple, hymn-like melody, fragmented and transformed over the course of the […]