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Choral/Orchestral Music by Joelle Wallach on October 21 in Richmond, VA October 18, 2011 For Immediate Release Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net Movement III of Joelle Wallach’s Toward a Time of Renewal for chorus, orchestra and four solo voices will be performed on Friday, October 21 – 7:30 PM by the Old Dominion University Concert Choir, Nancy Klein, Director and the Old Dominion University Orchestra, Lucy Manning, Director, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 815 East Grace Street in Richmond, Virginia. This will be presented as part of the College Music Society 54th National Conference. Toward a Time of Renewal is a four movement work for large chorus, four solo voices and orchestra, commissioned by the New York Choral Society to commemorate their 35th Anniversary Season. The text is based on nine poems by poet Denise Levertov centered on man's responsibility for the husbandry of the earth. Toward a Time of Renewal explores the text's psychological drama while using the rhythms and cadences of normal speech. Read more about it and hear excerpts at http://www.joellewallach.com/toward.html. Other composers on the program are Allen W. Mollineux, Lance Hulme, Chris M. Owenby, Warren P. Gooch, Peter F. McDonald and Jason Bahr. For more information, call 406-721-9616 or visit http://www.music.org/cgi-bin/showpage.pl?tmpl=/profactiv/conf/natl/2011/2011home&h=95. Joelle Wallach is Visiting Professor of Composition at the University of North Texas College of Music - http://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/detail/275. She composes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voices and choruses. Her String Quartet 1995 was the American Composers Alliance nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The New York Philharmonic Ensembles premiered her octet, From the Forest of Chimneys, written to celebrate their 10th anniversary; and the New York Choral Society commissioned her secular oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal, for 200 voices and orchestra to commemorate their 35th Anniversary Season in Carnegie Hall. Wallach's early training in piano, voice, theory, bassoon and violin included study at the Juilliard Preparatory Division. In 1984 the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with John Corigliano, granted her its first doctorate in composition. Much more about her at http://www.joellewallach.com. Dr. Wallach is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, who can be contacted at 516-586-3433 or at jamesarts@att.net. |
