Recent Happenings and Upcoming Events
Life has been busy and exciting since graduation in May. The majority of the summer was spent taking the most awesome trip of my life with the BJU Musical Mission Team to Europe. I won’t re-hash it all here; I’ve written epistles about the trip (and posted a few hundred pictures) on my facebook page if you haven’t seen yet. Here are a few of my favorite pics from the summer… Read more
Recital Recording
The recording of my graduate composition recital is now available! You can listen to the entire recital for free online or download individual tracks for $0.79 or the entire album for just $6.99.
Be sure to “like” it on Facebook and share with your friends!
Click here to listen to the recording.
Click here for more information on the music I wrote for my graduate recital.
Benediction
I am pleased to announce the availability of my latest published choral piece, Benediction, which is available with Beckenhorst Press. This piece is SATB with organ or string quartet accompaniment. Click here to listen to a demo recording. This from Beckenhorst:
Stunning in its simplicity, this beautiful setting of “God Be With You Till We Meet Again” for SATB Choir and string quartet is sure to become a favorite way to close any time of worship.
Graduate Composition Recital
My graduate composition recital is next week and I couldn’t be more excited! I’ve been waiting to do a recital like this since my freshman year and the time has finally come. Take a look at my recital page to see what I’ll be premiering. You can also read some program notes that I have written about the pieces to inform you of some of my compositional process and to fill you in on what’s happening in the music. Also, if you haven’t already, please add the Facebook event to your calendar to help me promote my recital.
In other news, God has provided abundantly for my summer missions trip with MMT! My expenses are nearly paid for; I only lack a few hundred of the 5,000-dollar total. Please pray for an effective ministry this summer in Europe.
Musical Mission Team 2011
This summer, Lord willing, I will be traveling with the Musical Mission Team from Bob Jones University. We will spend approximately 10 weeks in Europe presenting concerts of sacred music, passing out gospel literature, and doing various other missions projects. Would you prayerfully consider becoming a part of this endeavor with your financial and prayer support?
Click here to read more about this summer’s trip.
“Seeds” Documentary Music
Today, BJU presented a brand-new documentary on Bob Jones, Sr. entitled “Seeds.” The documentary explores his childhood, upbringing, and various circumstances in his life that eventually led to him founding Bob Jones College over 80 years ago. I was privileged to be able to contribute a small amount of background music for it. Not much – about 2 and 1/2 minutes in total (most of the audio was pre-recorded).
The cues I wrote were for a scene describing the Civil War and its negative effects on the southern plantation economy and a scene in which Bob Jones describes his mother and the emotions he felt as a young child when she died. With permission from ShowForth, I am posting the two cues that I wrote and recorded for the documentary. You can watch the entire documentary on BJU.edu as well as purchase a DVD copy from ShowForth Videos.
O Thou in Whose Presence
It’s been a few months since I blogged, but today I have some exciting news that has been a while in the making.
My choral (SATB) arrangement of O Thou in Whose Presence will be published with SoundForth in their Spring 2011 choral releases. In the last few weeks, I revised it and they have already recorded the demo CD and engraved it. It will going to print next week and will be available early next year.
I’m excited to finally have my first published piece out there (soon). Hopefully many more will follow in the near future.
Twelfth Night
This summer I get the opportunity to try my skills at a little bit of Shakespeare. I will be acting in Greenville Summer Shakespeare‘s production of Twelfth Night. If you are in the Greenville area please make plans to attend one (or more) of our 10 performances during June and July. This production is directed by Jeff Stegall (as always) and will feature actors such as Philip Eoute, Paul Radford, Ben Toler, David Bean, Allisha Sperr, Jeff Stegall himself, and more (ooh… and me, too!). Information and a link to purchase tickets online can be found at www.summershakespeare.org. You can also become a fan on facebook.
“Why, this is very midsummer madness!”
New Recordings
I have updated my Works page with two new recordings from the recent student composition recital on May 4th.
- O Thou in Whose Presence (SATB choir, piano)
- Benediction (SATB choir, string quartet)
I am thrilled with the quality of the singers’ work in this recital especially considering they only rehearsed these songs once right before the recital. Good work, all! The recordings feature my teacher, Dan Forrest, at the piano and fellow composition major John Hudson conducting. The string quartet was comprised of Sam Arnold, violin; Lydia Anglea, violin; Ron Sondergaard, viola; and Chris Erickson, cello. Enjoy!
I Made it to the Cover of TIME
For the May 31, 2010 edition of TIME Magazine, TIME started a Facebook group called “I Want To Be in TIME” asking for volunteers to have their picture possibly placed on the cover of the magazine in conjunction with a story on Facebook (specifically on their privacy issues and ways that it is connecting people). Approximately 3,000 people signed on to the project and my profile picture was one of 1,295 chosen to be on the cover. I am 2 up, 2 right from the arrow pointing to the author, Dan Fletcher (near the bottom). Click on the picture to the right to see it larger.
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