Archive for Prayers and Remembrances
New York Concert Review on True Concord Voices and Orchestra’s New York Debut
New York Concert Review critic Jeffrey Williams reviews the True Concord Voices and Orchestra performance at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall where they performed Stephen Paulus’ Prayers and Remembrances as part of their New York debut! “Prayers and Remembrances is a seven-movement work, each movement using carefully selected poems, both secular and non-secular, that all touched on the concept of grief, but also recovery and spirituality in living. … The music is tonal, with harmonic…
True Concord in New York City Next WEEK!
True Concord Voices & Orchestra release Far in the Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus NEXT WEEK (September 11, 2015) at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in a performance of Stephen Paulus’s Prayers and Remembrances and the Mozart Requiem! True Concord Voices & Orchestra™ was founded in 2004 as Tucson Chamber Artists. True Concord draws upon the first rank of professional choral and instrumental musicians from around the United States in service of its artistic…
True Concord Rehearses “Prayers and Remembrances” with Stephen Paulus
Enjoy video footage from True Concord Voices & Orchestra’s 2011 rehearsals with composer Stephen Paulus before the world premiere of Prayers and Remembrances: Far in the Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus World Premiere Recordings! Choral Music by beloved composer Stephen Paulus Far In The Heavens is comprised of recently composed and previously unrecorded works by Stephen Paulus, including two works that were commissioned and premiered by True Concord Voices & Orchestra: The Incomprehensible for…
Stephen Paulus on “Prayers and Remembrances”
Prayers and Remembrances Prayers and Remembrances (2011) was commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy by True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Eric Holtan, Music Director, and Mrs. Dorothy Vanek, in loving memory of her husband, Robert Vanek, and in memory of friends of the Vaneks from United and American Airlines who were lost on September 11, 2001. The idea for Prayers and Remembrances began with Eric Holtan. He approached me a few years…