Tag: James Kallembach (conductor)

SONNET 73 for S.A.T.B. Chorus, a cappella (2011)

PROGRAM NOTE The invitation to compose a short work for the Cornell University Glee Club presented some special delights, of which the deep, beautiful sound of an all-male choir ranging from tenor down to low bass was the most immediate and palpable. I selected Shakespeare’s immortal Sonnet 73 in no small part because I found…
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AD SCIENDAM…for Chorus (SATB) with optional Organ (2009)

PROGRAM NOTE AD SCIENDAM . . . was commissioned in celebration of the University of Chicago’s 500th convocation, with generous funding by Don Michael Randel and Carol Randel. With the intent of providing a grand statement in praise of the pursuit of knowledge, my texts were selected from the first chapter of the book of…
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