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• EXTRAORDINARY Blog Post From Composer Jason Robert Brown

  • Eleanor Safer: Yes, I just heard it today. I’m kinda not sure whether to be excited or concerned that half the theatre world hates me. And, frankly, I’m surprised that it’s still getting attention after so long.

• Come sing with me!

  • Melody Thomas: Are there going to be scholarship opportunities for any of these concerts?

• Three Flower Songs

  • Dylan: Go, lovely rose is incredible! If thats the BYU choir, can’t wait to be able to sing such beautiful song! thats my dream is to sing at BYU!

• The Virtual Choir: How We Did It

  • Carli: What a great idea! I absolutely love your music. Your virtual choir and your goals for it sound like such a powerful message: That we can all come together for the love of music. I would love love LOVE to be apart of your virtual choir for your original piece as an alto. How do I go about...

• Libertas Imperio

  • Ryan: This is under Wind Symphony, so I’m thinking it will just be winds and percussion, and no strings or choir. Although, it would be nice to hear what Eric could come up with in a Band/Choir format. Or perhaps all three, like Steven Bryant’s A Million Suns at Midnight???
  • Nikki Schilling: CAN’T WAIT! I love the original one! Will you be using voices with an orchestra or is it all just orchestra stuff?

• Great Cloudburst Masterclass Videos With Dr. Ronald Staheli

  • Matt: wow! this choir sounds awesome! the bass soloist sounds like he could sing an A1, on a bad day even. hahaha
  • Leon Chu: Peiyang Choir is the student choir of Tianjin University. Of course, it’s a choir in Tianjin, China PR. =)

• Messiaen

  • Matt: This is a fantastic piece by the great Messiaen. My entire freshmen class was required to study Messiaen’s Quartet for the end of time as part of our required general education class “Freshman Studies”, and after being introduced to him I became more and more interested. A...
  • Drew: bombastic is a good word for it
  • Robert D. Pore: This movement was more or less the first piece of Messiaen’s I heard back in high school! It astonishes me that you hadn’t heard it till now. One of my favorite pieces – I have to have listened to this movement a couple dozen or so times by now and it never gets...

• Oh. My. God.

  • Tessy: Impressive range!! HOLY COW! Well done, Jayson! So chilling.
  • Marcus Megahee: HOLY CRAP that’s good!!!! What an AH-mazing range!!!
  • Zach Ashcraft: this is stunning…wow. Those tenor lines are GORGEOUS!
  • Cameron Parker: That is something else.

• October

  • Bill Drayton: This evening I discovered Eric Whitacre’s music for the first time. What a revelation! This is the music of heaven or could viery well be! Eric, whether you believe it or nor, God has entrusted you with a message to give through the sounds of voice and musical instrument. I...

• Advice for the Emerging Composer, Part I: Notation

  • Nikki Schilling: Okay, so this isn’t entirely related to the point of this thread but I wanted to get this out there none-the-less: I am one of those composers where music theory is a huge crutch for me, so when I compose I tend to just write out compositions that only I will be able to...

• Noisy Wheels of Joy

  • Nikki Schilling: This is fantastic! Everything was perfectly timed with the scene itself musically. You should write for films more often! =D

• Her Sacred Spirit Soars

  • Victor Nguyen: I died. From beauty.

• i thank You God for most this amazing day (Light and Gold excerpt)

  • Elliott: To be honest, I didn’t think there was any better recording than the Polyphony version. Until now. My brain just exploded for the third time. ;P