We always love a good composer interview, and this one’s extra exciting for us. Thanks to New Music Box for their work getting to know Juliana Hall, and especially for the video they created! Read the full interview here.
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What They’re Saying: The Music of Juliana Hall
Press Quotes “beguiling” – Noel Goodwin (Times of London) “a brilliant cycle of songs” – Joseph McLellan (The Washington Post) “the most genuinely moving music of the afternoon” – Richard Dyer (Boston Globe) “beautiful in ways both traditional and strikingly original” – Robert Faires (The Austin Chronicle) “These songs were intimate, melancholy, haunting…legitimate modern heirsContinue reading “What They’re Saying: The Music of Juliana Hall”
Juliana Hall Song Cycle to be premiered by renowned mezzo Stephanie Blythe
Post by David Sims Renowned mezzo soprano Stephanie Blythe will premiere a new song cycle by composer Juliana Hall on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at the Sparks & Wiry Cries’ first songSLAM Festival at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City. Complete information about the songSLAM Festival – including links to purchaseContinue reading “Juliana Hall Song Cycle to be premiered by renowned mezzo Stephanie Blythe”
Stephanie Blythe on Art Song
Our friends at Sparks & Wiry Cries did this excellent interview with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe ahead of their songSLAM festival. The festival will feature world premieres by Juliana Hall and Scott Gendel. Watch to find out what this great artist has to say about connecting with an audience, the importance of modern composers, and beingContinue reading “Stephanie Blythe on Art Song”
Juliana Hall’s Art Songs March Across America for Women’s Rights
Guest post by David Sims Part I Every now and then a project comes along that is so unique and so meaningful that a composer cannot refuse the opportunity. So says composer Juliana Hall, whose new mezzo-soprano song cycle Through the Guarded Gate is the result of such a project.Through the Guarded Gate was commissionedContinue reading “Juliana Hall’s Art Songs March Across America for Women’s Rights”
Everyone Sang: Extended Notes
We’re so thrilled to release David Conte’s 2-disc vocal album Everyone Sang on the Arsis label, a project which has been several years in the making. A modest booklet is included in the physical copy (and viewable here), and we wanted to share extended performer information, program notes, and texts, below. Performers [In order ofContinue reading “Everyone Sang: Extended Notes”
Featured @ NATS
The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) is one of the newer conferences we’ve added to our summer rounds, and we couldn’t be more excited about it collaborating with this great group! In 2018 we loved hosting a showcase of Juliana Hall‘s music, performed by soprano Amy Petrongelli and pianist Blair Salter, as wellContinue reading “Featured @ NATS”
Discovering Forgotten Treasures
Guest Post by Dr. Carol Kimball Songs of Gouvy, edited by MeeAe Cecilia Nam. In two volumes. Vol. 1: 40 Poèmes de Pierre de Ronsard, 12 Poèmes de La Pléiade; Vol. 2: 18 Sonnets et Chansons de Desportes; 18 Poésies de Moritz Hartmann. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company. Explorers of French mélodie haveContinue reading “Discovering Forgotten Treasures”
Steven Mark Kohn | Welcome to E. C. Schirmer
We’re pleased to announce the addition of composer Steven Mark Kohn to the E. C. Schirmer catalog. Kohn is known particularly for his American Folk Song arrangements, which were premiered by David Daniels and Martin Katz in 2002 at Carnegie Hall. Since then, they have been performed in festivals and on recitals across North AmericaContinue reading “Steven Mark Kohn | Welcome to E. C. Schirmer”
Beauty, Truth, and Insight through Song: Interview with Juliana Hall
This month we’re featuring American art song composer Juliana Hall (b. 1958). A prolific and highly-regarded composer of vocal music, her songs have been described as “brilliant” (Washington Post), “beguiling” (Times of London), and “the most genuinely moving music of the afternoon” (Boston Globe). The NATS Journal of Singing wrote that “Hall’s text setting isContinue reading “Beauty, Truth, and Insight through Song: Interview with Juliana Hall”
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