The orchestral version with choir premiered on the 20th and 24th of December of that year. However, when public performances opened up again, and Choral Arts DC was to restart their Christmas concerts at the Kennedy Center, Scott asked me if I’d consider orchestrating it for December 2021, which I was happy to do. We discussed including other instruments for the premiere, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit (and I was soon to begin composing) we thought it best to keep it to piano for what would now probably be a video, “virtual” premiere. The African American spiritual “Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow” interested him, and the idea of working with it delighted me, as spirituals have inspired a number of my choral and chamber works. In the weeks following, the choir’s artistic director Scott Tucker and I discussed a Christmas piece for December 2020. The money-the highest amount that particular auction feature had ever brought in, I was told-would go to support the work of Chorus America. So, just after the parfait and coffee were served, the Choral Arts Society of Washington came through with a winning bid of $5,000 for a new work, to be composed by me for them in the next year or so. The Crossing would be performing my work The Arc in the Sky as the last evening’s concert, and at the closing banquet just after the concert, as in previous years, an auctioned newly composed work would be part of the fundraising festivities. Premiered 20 & by the Choral Arts Society of Washington, D.C., Scott Tucker, artistic director at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC.Īvailable here from Hal Leonard, Craig Hella Johnson Series.Ĭhorus America auctioned a composition from me at their 2019 annual conference, in Philadelphia that year. Premiered Dec 2020 by the Choral Arts Society of Washington, D.C., Scott Tucker, artistic director.
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