I Could See the Sky
I Could See the Sky. For SATB, 2-part Treble Choir, Keyboard, optional String Quartet, 17 minutes (Treble Choir may be boys and/or girls or a few women) The editing process is usually severe. Many good things—music, text, both—are often left on the cutting room floor,...The Bremen Town Musicians, for Orchestra
Orchestrated for narrator and small orchestra, 2016, for the English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods, conductor, and premiered 10 Jul 2016. 1111–1110-1perc-narrator-str. 8′ Original composed 2008. Violin, cello, narrator.From a story compiled by the Brothers...Grandmother’s Garden
Grandmother’s Garden. Text: Grandmother’s Garden, the children’s book by John Archambault. 2-part Children’s Choir, Piano, opt. C Instrument, 9′. See the entire score and hear the premiere at MusicSpoke. Commissioned by Settlement Music...The Greatness of Hansel and Gretel
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk, 21 December 2015.] A young mother wanted to sing to her children. She wrote poems based on a story by the Brothers Grimm and asked her brother to set them to music. He did, but then kept working with them, and in two years those...Patriotism and Music
[First published in Broad Street Review, 17 Nov 2015; printed here by permission.] On 9/11, on that Tuesday in 2001, the first thing I did was to put up the American flag. I went into the coat closet, fetched it, went out on the porch, put the staff into the holder,...
THE ARC IN THE SKY
Best Choral Performance, The Crossing, Donald Nally
CANTICLE
Producer of the Year, Classical, Blanton Alspaugh