This is the second movement of my recent setting of five poems by Rainer Maria Rilke from “Les Quatrains Valaisans”. The work won 2nd prize at the Alpenchorfestival in Brig, Switzerland and the Deutsche Jugendchor performed this movement at the festival. If you would like further information, sample scores, please visit my composer’s page here […]
Longfellow Chorus Releases Coleridge-Taylor Documentary
The Longfellow Chorus, of Portland, Maine, announces the release of the documentary “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900–1912,” a film directed by Charles Kaufmann, artistic director of The Longfellow Chorus. 119 minutes in length, the film covers Coleridge-Taylor’s life, birth to death, concentrating on the years between 1900 and 1912 when his life […]
The Boston Cecilia Announces New Music Director
The Boston Cecilia announces the appointment of Nicholas White as its new Music Director. He succeeds Donald Teeters who led the chorus from 1968 to 2012. White is a Grammy-nominated composer and conductor as well as organist, pianist, and singer with experience in many different styles of music. Born in London and educated at […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, April 7, 2013
I have added short notes for each grouping. Let me know if this helps or hinders your enjoyment of the program. Thanks for your support. Rob Rob Kennedy Great Sacred Music The Classical Station http://theclassicalstation.org ————————————– 08:00:26 Don Carlo Gesualdo: Ave Regina coelorum Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly Cesar Franck: Panis […]
George Shearing’s Songs and Sonnets
A performance of George Shearings Songs and Sonnets by the University Singers at the University of North Texas is now on YouTube (with permission of the publisher): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl5gfa4cjdA Richard Sparks conducts; Steven Harlos, piano; Brian Casey, bass.
SATB Setting of Animula Vagula Blandula
My setting of the Emperor Hadrian’s (supposed) last poem is not published on Score Exchange http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/135830.html It’sworth a look (I hope) and it’s free. Animula Vagula Blandula, Hospes comesque corporis, Quae nunc abibis in loca, Pallida rigida nudula Nec, ut soles, iocos dabis. [Little wandering. winsome soul, My bodies guest and […]