A fellow ChoralNet composer, now a friend and informal mentor who is infinitely more accomplished and experienced than I, sent me a query about the “metric displacement” in one of my compositions, “The First Snowflake.” It was a kind and gentle way of telling me that I had made a fundamental notation error, one that I have now […]
New Publications
Two new choral anthems from Augsburg Fortress by Thomas Keesecker
Augsburg Fortress has just released two new anthems of mine. Jesus Said, Come Follow Me is for SATB voices a cappella and oboe. It was the runner-up finalist in the recent National Lutheran Choir Choral Composition Contest. http://store.augsburgfortress.org/store/product/17110/Jesus-Said-Come-Follow-Me Oh, Love, How Deep is for SATB and organ. http://store.augsburgfortress.org/store/product/17111/Oh-Love-How-Deep
Carol Barnett launches Beady Eyes Publishing
Beady Eyes, Carol Barnett’s self-publishing venture, can be accessed at http://www.carolbarnett.net/publishing3.html Titles include many of the works written for the Dale Warland Singers. Full perusal copies may be viewed on-line; many have recordings. This is a work in progress; check back often for new titles.
New from GIA and Bob Moore
As the Deer Longs, a setting for unaccompanied SATB voices has been released by GIA Publications. For more information and to see a preview, visit GIA’s website: http://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=10990 For a reference recording, please feel free to contact the composer. www.bobmooremusic.com
Vexilla regis prodeunt, Passio domini Jesu Christi (SATB 2:25) by Pierre de la Rue
Modern edition by James Johnson ASCAP 1551618. This extraordinarily beautiful SATB motet for Maundy Thursday or Good Friday by Pierre de la Rue (c 1460-1518) is composed over two separate texts heard simultaneously. In soprano, tenor and bass the ancient chant "Vexilla regis prodeunt—" is heard, while the alto sings "Passio domini Jesu Christi—" announcing […]
Because I liked you better (2:35)
TTBB setting of A. E. Housman’s poignant late autobiographical poem. As a student at Oxford Housman had fallen in love with a classmate, Moses Jackson who admired him greatly but could not share his feelings. Jackson later married without informing Housman and moved to Canada, and from that great distance he eventually resumed contact. All my […]