Lucinda Thayer of Plover, conductor of the Wausau Lyric Choir, is scheduled to fly home today after her initial flight plans were canceled Sunday. Thayer, who is a professor of music and the director of choral activities at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, was serving for the fourth time as the American judge in an international choir […]
Popular Voiceworks feedback
Do you have a copy of “Popular Voiceworks” (by Charles Beale & Steve Milloy, OUP)? If so, we would love to hear your feedback and suggestions. If you teach elementary – high school choirs, this book is for you. Here’s a link to a description of the book with book and audio samples. 28 […]
High Flight in Scandinavia, and new recording
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth….. Put out my hand and touched the face of God. High Flight , the evocative setting for choir and saxophone of John Magee’s famous poem will soon be en route to Scandinavia! The Anderson University Chorale under director Richard Sowers and with Rebecca Chappell […]
BLUE HERON CD RELEASE
Blue Heron announces the release of its new CD!Hugh Aston: Three Marian Antiphons · Robert Jones: Magnificat · John Mason: Quales sumus O miseri (Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, vol. 1). BHCD 1002 Blue Heron, directed by Scott Metcalfe, announces the release of the second CD on its own label. The disc is the […]
Warm Reception for New Work – Important Note
In my message above regarding This Moroccan Sea I neglected to say that the free file download site I use features false ‘download here’ links. Please scroll down to the very bottom of the page where it says: ->Download Link: This Big Moroccan Sea Thank you! And if anyone knows of a better […]
Warm Reception for New Work
The audiences at the recent world premiere performances of This Big Moroccan Sea in the San Francisco Bay Area were moved by fine singing and the poignant text at the heart of this work. It also received a very favourable critical response: “….In constant movement, with ceaseless, practically subliminal activity, the voices all around the soloist […]