NEWS

 

 

2015

 

JANUARY

 

My new festive overture  Celebration was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Catholic University of America's Benjamin T. Rome School of Music (my alma mater) 50th Anniversary Competition. It's dedicated to the memory of the three professors that gave me my solid foundation as a  composer: G. Thaddeus Jones, Conrad Bernier, and Robert Ricks.

 

FEBRUARY

 

GIA is adding my SSAA arrangement of the Advent hymn "See How the Virgin Waits" to its catalog, alongside the original SATB verstion. 

 

MARCH

 

A new short Communiion motet, "Spirings of Flowing Water," is to be published by H. T. FitzSimon.

 

MAY

 

Just completed: Procession and Dance for the Rennaisance V Brass Quintet; "I Am the Bread of Life," another in the communion motet series. 

 

JUNE

 

Celebration (score and parts) is now published through Swirly Music.

New:  "Alleluia" (SSA) for the Bodo (Norway) Women's Choir (Bodo Damekor)

 

JULY

 

Procession and Dance and Day Music for Alexandria are now available from Swirly Music.

 

NOVEMBER

 

Many new choral titles now available from Swirly Music. Coming soon:  1. A Pleasaunce of Song, a collection of delightful poems  mostly from the Elizabethan era, set as solo songs with piano accomaniment, performable as a song cycle or as individual songs. 2. Anniversary Overture for symphony orchestra,  More to follow. Stay tuned.

 

DECEMBER

 

Anniversary Overture, along with "Alleluia," "Cherubic Hymn 'Agia Sophia,'" and "The Lord's Prayer," are now available on the Swirly Music website.

 

2016

 

JANUARY

 

More on Swirly Music: "Sweet Harmony" SSAA -- a close harmony setting of Sakespeare's "Here will we sit" (The Merchant of Venice) with piano and bass accompaniment. Shakesespeare and jazz -- together again!  "Henry Martin" -- a vigorous traditional song of the sea with a rhythmicaly intense piano accompaniment, in versions for either women's or men's chorus.

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JULY

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More new titles on the Swirly Music site include choral works, chamber music (Suite Imaginaire pour trio a cordes), and organ works.

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A recent collaboration with the Contra Costa Suzuki Strings, directed by Laurie Carlson: "Music on a Mission" is their endeavor to help establish and maintain a music program in the town of Teupacenti, Honduras by seeking donations of instruments, bows, strings, music stands, etc., for Proyecto Juda. Two years ago the young musicians of CCSS traveled to Teupacenti, where they met and played with their Honduran counterparts, and as I write this, Laurie is back in Teupacenti to deliver more donated instruments and supplies. I wrote a piece for them, "Meditacion y Danza," with parts arranged so that all the youngsters, whether beginners or more advanced, could play it.  https://youtu.be/E_XRvk65ZPU;  https://www.facebook.com/ContraCostaSuzukiStrings/

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DECEMBER

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Completed Folkloric Dances, eight short movements for string orchestra, using elements I've noticed in various folkloric styles, without necessarily writing specific existing forms.

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2017

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JANUARY

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Two new choral works now published by H.T. FitzSimons: "Springs of Flowing Water" (from Psalm 41/2) and "Heavenly King" (a beautiful prayer to the Holy Spirit from the Byzantine liturgy.

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A new piece for bassoon and piano, dedicated to Jackson Bryce, musician, scholar, and old friend: "Planctus . . .  because sometimes there is grief," now available from Swirly Music.

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