Just in time for Valentine’s Day, I have just posted two new score videos with brand new recordings. These are two settings of the poem INVITATION TO LOVE by American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, one for unaccompanied mixed choir (SATB) and one for unison chorus or solo voice with piano accompaniment. The recordings were made […]
New Recordings
JUDITH CLURMAN’S ESSENTIAL VOICES USA release of AMERICA AT HEART, a NEW DIGITAL EP, on the ACIS Label
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 2021, NEW YORK, NEW YORK JUDITH CLURMAN, conductor and music director of the preeminent NYC chorus ESSENTIAL VOICES USA and record label Acis announce the release of AMERICA AT HEART via streaming platforms. The chorus is joined by Tony Award® winners RANDY GRAFF and BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL for a release in […]
premiere recording on youtube – “Anti-Suffragist Reasons” – a sarcastic text
The first performance of Paul Ayres’s “Anti-Suffragist Reasons” is now on youtube: It’s scored for unaccompanied SSA voices, and sets the sarcastic (and highly amusing!) words below: *** I. Our Own Twelve Anti-Suffragist Reasons 1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote. 2. Because no woman who may vote will attend to […]
Score Video: “A COUNTRY BOY IN WINTER” (TTBB)
Just in time for the winter solstice, I have posted another choral score video. A COUNTRY BOY IN WINTER is my TTBB setting for unaccompanied men’s chorus of the poem by American poet Sarah Orne Jewett, with a recording by Matthew Curtis of Choral Tracks. Sheet music for A COUNTRY BOY IN WINTER is available […]
City of Angels Master Chorale Present’s Eric Whitacre’s “Glow”
Leg Lamp Productions is proud to announce, despite of everything that 2020 could throw at, the release of a lovely new film from the City of Angels Master Chorale of Eric Whitacre’s “Glow”. Presented in 4K resolution, this new film merges the lush harmonies of Whitacre’s arrangement, and the expert conducting of Richard Medrano’s chorale, […]
“The Wayfaring Stranger” for Solo Male Voice and TTBB Choir (or Solo Female Voice and SSAA Choir)
This past summer I watched the film “1917”, during which a British soldier sings the American gospel song “The Wayfaring Stranger” to his fellow soldiers before heading into a battle. Then a few nights later, I had a dream where I was singing the song in a choir, creating this rhythmic, hocketed and hummed accompaniment, […]