The piece is also getting an outing by the Amateur Chamber Music Society in Sydney, Australia, who will be performing it on December 2 at Kirribilli Centre.
If you’re in either city and would like to attend a performance of the work, please contact the respective choirs and support them. I’m sure they’d be pleased to have extra audience come along and support all their hard rehearsal time!
It’s been quite a good year for performances for me, despite not having written anything for a while.
However, I’m back with my nose to the grindstone, trying out some new composition software (Noteflight), and there will be new works out in short order.
It turns out that Crescent Moon received several performances from the Central Coast Chorale in Oregon, USA. I was contacted by the choir, and received confirmation that the piece was performed on April 22, 23, 24 and May 1, and that the performances went well.
It’s nice to hear back from choirs, and to hear the music is enjoyed 🙂
Quite recently, and closer to home, Southern Consort of Voices here in Dunedin, New Zealand was scheduled to perform the piece Deconstruct a Chrysalis for which I wrote the lyrics and Michael Winikoff the music.
However, it has had to be cut from the program due to a very busy rehearsal schedule. The choir has performed the piece before, and we have hopes it will find time in an upcoming concert program to perform it again. I’ll let you know when that happens 🙂
One performance that is going ahead is a performance of the same piece by the Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival in June this year. The festival will be held in Canberra, ACT, Australia. I’m not sure of the concert date or venue yet, but once I am I will post the details here, so if you’re in the neighbourhood you can attend.
There’s another Composition Competition to be held by RMIT Occasional Choral Society in Melbourne later this year. I’ll be writing a piece for the competition, and yes, it will be performed – I hope! Once again, once I know the details of the performance, in which a variety of new works by emerging composers will be performed by the choir, I will post the details here. So watch this space!
Finally, here’s a lovely performance by the Laramie High School girls in Wyoming, USA singing my short piece, Mary Sings a Lullaby. Thanks for performing my work. Enjoy 🙂
And another performance of the same piece by Victoria Rengel:
I’m currently working on my first attempt at a string piece, and am not sure whether to trash it or not.
So I thought I’d post an mp3 sample of the piece here, and see if anyone had any opinion on the matter.
A friend of mine, who knows a lot more about music than I do (to be honest) thinks the piece is Definitely TrashWorthy. I’m not so sure, but concede that it might Need Some Work Still.
At present I’m setting it for violin and two violas, with possible version for SSA.
Opinions and comments would be very welcome 🙂 Click the link below – it will open in another window for you to listen to.
Leanne Veitch 