April 27 – Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek premiered Latte, an art song with lyrics by Lisa Pegram, at Georgetown University’s Davis Performing Arts Center. On the same day, Maryland percussionist Tim McKay premiered my new percussion piece Tres Leches at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD. It was amazing to have two totally different premieres of totally [...]
A Song for Peace
A Song for Peace is a short, processional-style piece for chorus and African djembe drum. Designed as an opening song for a concert, the piece follows a call-and-response pattern out of African marching songs to call the audience and singers together, contrasted with gentle, European-style polyphony in the call for peace. Texts in Swahili and Tagalog – two beautiful-for-singing languages – complete the sense of international unity.
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