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(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, Pluralism in the Works of Heinz Werner Zimmermann by Z. Randall Stroope.)          More than any other German composer, Heinz Werner Zimmermann (b. 1930) has incorporated jazz and American spiritual elements into European traditional compositional techniques.  For Zimmermann, this fusion of jazz and traditional (or “classical”) elements […]

(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, Beethoven’s Mass in C:  Notes on History, Structure, and Performance Practice, by Fred Stoltzfus)          Although numerous German authors have discussed Beethoven’s Mass in C, opus 86, there have been only limited critical discussions of the work published in English.1 Often opus 86 has suffered from comparison […]

Please excuse me for a moment while I pick my jaw up off the floor . . .

Virtuosity is virtuosity.

The pressure’s on, isn’t it? You’ll get a break next week, so just hang in there a little longer.  In the meantime, LAUGH!