20 years after its premiere performance, Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America has established itself as an enduring tribute to the foundation of America and its multi-national roots. With text compiled by Boyer from the Ellis Island Oral History Project, Ellis Island is a 45 minute work for 7 actors and orchestra, with […]
Fuchs Receives Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Composer Award
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Announces Kenneth Fuchs As Recipient of 3rd Annual Composer Award Rockland, ME – The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation is pleased to announce Kenneth Fuchs is the recipient of its 3rd annual $20,000 Composer Award. With the Award, Fuchs will create a new work to be performed in 2023 by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. Fuchs, a Grammy Award-winning composer and professor of composition […]
Silent Night recording released
The Minnesota Opera has released the first recording of the Pulitzer prize winning opera Silent Night by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell. Order your copy here:
Torke PSALMS AND CANTICLES
Following up on the incredible success of his recording of Being Michael Torke has released a new work on Ecstatic Records, Psalms and Cancticles. Featuring the talented singer Lydia Brown, this promises to be a new major work in Torke’s catalogue. The study score is available for purchase here.
New Bunch work about the Japanese Internment Camps
America’s great reckonings continue. The late-blooming LGBTQ activist and Trekkie icon George Takei (a/k/a Ikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise) bears witness to a legacy of national shame in Lost History: A Memory, drawn from his personal recollections as a Japanese-American “enemy alien” in World War II under Executive Order 9066. Though Takei’s family was […]
Ursula Oppens on Laura Kaminsky
Pianist Ursula Oppens discusses the music of Laura Kaminsky and her new CD of Kaminsky’s works: Read the article here.
Boyer Fanfare for Tomorrow at Biden/Harris’ inauguration
Fanfare for Tomorrow, was performed as part of the one-hour Prelude music of the Inauguration ceremony, conducted by the Marine Band’s Director, Colonel Jason K. Fettig. “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, America’s oldest continuously active musical organization, is believed to have made its inaugural debut in 1801 for Thomas Jefferson, the first President to […]
The Scarlet Ibis
The Scarlet Ibis is an opera that fuses singers, puppetry and multimedia stagecraft to tell the story of Doodle, a remarkable, disabled boy whose older brother pushes him to be “normal.” Set in rural North Carolina a century ago, the story contrasts notions of physical wholeness versus mystical otherness. Episodic and expressionistic, the narrative draws on […]
2021 Grammy Awards
Congratulations to Richard Danielpour and Christopher Theofanidis on their 2021 Grammy wins. Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua won Classical, Best Choral Performance and Theofanidis’ Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra won for best classical instrumental solo. The 63rd GRAMMY Awards were broadcast on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021.
Fung HUMANOID
for solo Violoncello and Electronics These are the files for the electronic part, which can be used for practice and performance. Audio file with clicktrack (for practice purposes) Audio file with louder clicktrack (for practice purposes) Audio file (high resolution, for performance)
