Cry Premiere
Rochester’s Madrigalia choir and Artistic Director Cary Ratcliff premiered another Antarctica-inspired choral piece, “Cry.” The words? The ice is crying. The waters will rise with every tear.
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Exploring the Adirondack Folk Opera at Mountain Lake PBS
This series of Spotlight video stories and exclusive interview clips from Mountain Lake PBS invites you behind-the-scenes and on the stage, as a work in progress aims to become a full scale opera.
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One Sweet Little Baby – Nordic Choir Performance
The Nordic Choir from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, performs an arrangement of One Sweet Little Baby by Glenn McClure and Wes Kennison, arranged by Shawn Kirchner. Perfect song for your Christmas Eve!
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Christmas at the Foot of a Volcano
My wife and I have gotten to know the local Catholic community of Sacred Heart, Na’alehu. This rural community gathers together the whole range of Hawaiians including those from indigenous heritage to those whose families originate from the US, Europe, Japan, China and the nations of Polynesia. The author James Joyce once described the Catholic…
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Lava Trees – Courage and Stamina
The Tour To compose music about volcanos, I need a crash-course in volcanology. This is Dr. Don Swanson from the US Geological Survey, my “go-to guy” for all geological things during my artist-in-residence with the National Parks Arts Foundation. Today, Don led me on a tour of the Hawai’i Volcanos National Park, trying to get…
