Morten Lauridsen News
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- composer, music teacher, university teacher, conductor
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-06 21:26:14
“No Choice but Love: Songs of the LGBTQ+ Community”
[…] with a separate song by Moore using an evocative poem (which Ferring sent him) by the Jamaican-American tenor Terrence Chin-Loy. In between come items by composers from a few generations back—Ethel Smyth, Falla, Poulenc, Britten—and more recent ones by Jennifer Higdon (lines from Walt Whitman’s famous “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”), Ricky Ian Gordon (to texts by Langston Hughes), and Willie Alexander III (to verses by James Agee that Samuel Barber and Morten Lauridsen have also set). Gordon’s two songs, from his 1993 cycle Genius Child are absolute keepers, and I expect we’ll be hearing them in other recitals. Both set Hughes’s poems captivatingly, the second to a dance-like tune, the first to music that (intentionally, I suspect) recalls to the gorgeous “Adonai ro-i” tune in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. On the Road (1913) by Ethel Smyth is a confident march, hinting at important work that needs to be […]
2022-12-23 00:00:00
TOWER Voices New Zealand - A Voices Christmas
[…] were sponsored by a Australasian insurance company.And now for something rather different, but from the same choir under its same long-time conductor and the same production team. Music ranging from the 10th century to the present day. Choral voices sometimes with taonga pūoro (traditional Māori instruments) accompaniment, sometimes unaccompanied, and interspersed with taonga pūoro solos.Voice of the Soul01 Hildegard von Bingen: O Viridissima Virga* [4'12]02 David Childs: Salve Regina [4'16]03 Pūkaea* [0'40]04 - 09 Morten Lauridsen: Six Fire Madrigals [20'15]10 Pūrerehua* [0'37]11 Helen Fisher: Pounamu* [8'20]12 Poiawhiowhio, karanga manu* [0'42]13 Christopher Marshall: To the Horizon - No. 1, Horizon I (Sea and Sky) [2'00]14 - 18 Benjamin Britten: Five Flower Songs, op.47 [11'30]19 David Hamiton: Karakia of the Stars*^ [6'34]20 Pūrerehua* [1'05]16 Voices from Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir conducted by Karen Grylls with Horomona Horo* and Rowan Johnston^- taonga pūoro (traditional Māori instruments)Atoll ACD213 [recorded January 2013; issued 2015][digital […]
2022-11-28 20:36:00
[…] of Life “Sun Quilt” (Gabriela Lena Frank) “Nearly Insane” (Ysaÿe Barnwell) “Most Holy Night” (Carol Barnett)Soloist: Jonathan Smucker Selections from Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103 (Johannes Brahms)1. He, Zigeuner, greife in die Saiten einSoloist: Michael Jankosky2. Hochgetürmte Rimaflut3. Wißt ihr, wann mein KindchenSoloists: Patrick Hagen, Laurel Cameron Porter4. Lieber Gott, du weisstSoloists: Clare Demer, Whitney Steele, Patrick Hagen, William O’Neill5. Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze6. Röslein dreie in der ReiheSoloists: Sara Colburn, Sally Mouzon, Jonathan Smucker, William O’Neill7. Kommt dir manchmal in den SinnSoloists: Jesslyn Thomas, Elizabeth Baker, Michael Jankosky, William O’Neill8. Rote Abendwolken ziehn “Dirait-on” (Morten Lauridsen; text by Rainer Maria Rilke) “The Rose” (Ola Gjeilo; text by Christina Rossetti) “Sure on this shining night” (Morten Lauridsen; text by James Agee)
2022-10-31 01:17:43
CONTENT COURTESY UNSW Experience the whimsical joy of Old American Songs, and relish the contemplation of one’s inner warmth in Lauridsen’s timeless Nocturnes. Collegium Musicum The post first appeared on CutCommon.
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