PUBLISHERS, COMPOSERS, CONDUCTORS (Part 2), by Jameson Marvin Personally I am as interested in performing a motet by Josquin, as I am in performing a Haydn Mass or a Bach Cantata or Tarik O’Regan’s latest composition. For example, in a single year, my Glee Club sang The Four Prayers of St. Francis of Assisi […]
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GUEST BLOG: “Publishers, Composers, Conductors (Part 1)” by Jameson Marvin
PUBLISHERS, COMPOSERS, CONDUCTORS (Part 1), by Jameson Marvin What changes/modifications if any do you think need to be made to better reach out to today¹s audiences? I think inspiring performances draw audiences. The word spreads and more people come. It is a mutually enriching cycle. Through insightful program notes and texts with translations […]
Stick Time: Wake Up Those Ears!
It’s time, kids! The winter break has ended (or is about to). It is time for us to emerge from our drowsy, over-fed mid-winter holiday slumber and awaken our musical ears for the second half of this glorious choral season. Of course, during this choral halftime you have no doubt invested time pondering your game […]
Name That Choir Tune (No. 17)
Saturday Respite: Ooga chacka!
Sorry, yet another sound that will infest your ears all day . . .
CJ Replay: Poulenc’s “Petites Voix”
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Francis Poulenc’s Petities Voix 1936” by Dorothy A. Lincoln) Petites Voix was written later in the same year that Poulenc wrote the music for Sept Chansons. Also that year he finished composing the Litanies lla Vierge Noir, a work for women’s or children’s voices and organ. […]