The all-professional Marble Collegiate Church Choir (NYC), under the direction of Kenneth Dake, recently released their newest CD, It’s About Love. Their performance of Ubi caritas (as well as all the tracks) is really splendid. I very much welcome their interpretaion of Ubi caritas to the discography of my works, and I encourage readers to add the CD to their collections. Click here […]
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What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, February 2, 2014
Great Sacred Music airs every Sunday morning from 8 until 11 a.m. eastern on The Classical Station. Also on Sunday evenings you can hear more choral music both sacred and secular on Wavelengths and Peaceful Reflections beginning at 9 p.m. eastern. 08:02:00 Louis Marchand: Fond d’orgue Joseph Payne, organ The Fisk organ, Opus 78, […]
Recording of ‘Beulah Land’ by Brandon J. Spencer
I’ve just uploaded a new recording of my arrangement of the spiritual ‘Beulah Land’. The choir is the Claflin University Concert Choir of Orangeburg, SC. View on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTKbCHydNdY&feature=youtu.be
CJ Replay: Yes, Choral Music Can
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article “A Selected Choir in a Liberal Arts College”, by Carl A. Fehr) It may be assumed that educators in general agree that music, and in this case choral music, is an important aspect of the well-rounded individual. The liberal arts program strives to provide a good, […]
The Bounty that Student Conductors are Missing
Every spring a new batch of college graduates hits the job market waving their freshly-minted bachelor’s degrees. With heads full of ideas, hearts brimming with enthusiasm, and their student-loan grace period fast ticking away, these newest colleagues are eager to get into the classroom and ply the craft they have trained for over the past […]
Stick Time: Cupid’s Arrow in Choral Music
You’re cruising along in your car, listening to music on the radio. More often than not, in one form or another, the song will have a single overriding textual theme: Love. Whether looking for it, drunk from it, or heartbroken because it was taken away, romantic love has been THE focus of secular poetic texts […]