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At the American Choral Directors National Conference
I couldn’t be there, but my music could, thanks to The Crossing and MusicSpoke. The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Conference just concluded in Salt Lake City, and was a huge...
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May Day Preview in Chestnut Hill Local
Children’s Park at Jenks School Looking forward to Saturday’s performance with The Crossing and the Jenks School in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, my setting of May Day a poem by Ryan...
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May Day
Donald Nally conducting The Crossing and the Jenks choir at the premiere (photo credit: Anthony B. Creamer III). My choral work for SATB and 2-part children’s choir, May Day, premiered Saturday April...
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You Are Most Welcome
One of 15 commissioned by The Crossing to honor the memory of their co-founder Jeffrey Dinsmore, I chose the text of my setting from his emails to me. Jeff passed away two years ago, much too soon....
View ArticlePeaceful Choral Music by Living Composers
Just ran across this today, but it’s been out there for awhile, apparently: a list of 50 titles on Spotify, Peaceful Choral Music by Living Composers. I don’t know if they’re listed in order of...
View ArticleThe Arc in the Sky in The Classic Review
“Smith has set a new standard for himself … at various times rocks, rolls, mourns, murmurs, laments, and glorifies. Masterful … exhilarating … a new top-notch, emotionally charged choral work. Strongly...
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The Arc in Gramophone
Laurence Vittes praises The Arc in the Sky, the CD The Crossing, directed by Donald Nally, released this summer on Navona, in a thoughtful October 2019 Gramophone magazine review. My description of the...
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Grammy nomination for The Arc in the Sky
Received texts of “Congrats” this morning, which puzzled me, as I didn’t know what I was being congratulated for. But then the news started slipping out that The Crossing received two nominations for...
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Airplay for The Arc in the Sky
The Arc in the Sky is receiving more and more airplay from around the country and even internationally! At the end of the year, these are the stations we know about so far. A big Thank-You from me, The...
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The GRAMMYS and Estonian Recording of the Year
Texts were flying in from the Grammys in L.A. last night while we watched Nellie, on Baroque cello, at Forest and Main in Ambler, play an energetic concert with Musicivic Baroque. While The Arc in the...
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