After a wonderful day of good food and conversation with Helen and her husband Joe, we headed to St. Bernard’s Church in Saranac Lake for the rehearsal tonight. What a marvelous choir! It is made up of singers of all kinds, including some that have sung at the Met and others that are just learning….
Paula and Francesca and I hit the road today for Lake Placid. We are so excited about hearing the new Northern Lights Choir that Helen Demong has put together. They will be singing some spirituals and also premiering my “Voices of Timbuctoo.” Of all the new works in my Emancipation Again Series, this one is…
My thanks to Gerry Floriano and the Spectrum Women’s Choir, Gwendolyn Gassler and the Concentus Women’s Choir, baritone soloist Jon Turner and drummers Jon Canning, Ted Canning and Yahaya Alhassan for a wonderful premier of the new Dante piece! Earlier in the concert, the two choirs performed a setting of an excerpt from Dante’s “Paradiso”…
GENESEO, N.Y. – The choral performance series “Emancipation Again” celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation is following the path of the Underground Railroad with concerts in six cities stretching from Alabama to New York. Series composer Glenn McClure, a faculty member at the State University of New York at Geneseo and Eastman School…
GENESEO, N.Y. – The choral performance series “Emancipation Again” celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation is following the path of the Underground Railroad with concerts in six cities stretching from Alabama to New York. Series composer Glenn McClure, a faculty member at the State University of New York at Geneseo and Eastman School…