Author: PamelaM
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Composing “Songs from a Quaker Heart”
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Read more: Composing “Songs from a Quaker Heart”What fun to hear the rehearsal of “Songs from a Quaker Heart” last night. This new music SATB chorus and piano is getting its premiere by the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus, who commissioned it. The poems are by Marian Kaplun Shapiro, a fellow resident of Lexington, MA. So many of Marian’s poems are direct observation of…
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Listening: Ran, Jolas, Tower, Chen Yi
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Read more: Listening: Ran, Jolas, Tower, Chen YiA whole disc of solo clarinet seems like a lot of just one flavor, but I found the pieces varied and delightful. I was drawn to it because I was looking for music by Betsy Jolas, with whom I studied a long time ago at Yale.
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Listening: Larsen, Auerbach, Klockar
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Read more: Listening: Larsen, Auerbach, KlockarI’ve listened to several tracks from the marvellous CD by Allmanna Sangen, an adventurous chorus from Uppsala, Sweden.
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In memory of my father
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Read more: In memory of my fatherMy father died in 2011 at the age of 93. I wrote the poem Deepest Shade in 2010 as he was losing the ability to communicate with us. I set it to music soon after.
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Listening: Gubaidulina