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- Video: In Tír na nÓg for Irish band and chorus
I have just received the concert video from the Eureka College Broadcasting department, who filmed the Eureka Irish Extravaganza 2025. I’m excited to share the premiere of In Tír na nÓg! This performance with the Eureka College Chorale and my Irish band Turas is the original SATB version, but I have now arranged it for TBB, SSA, and 1-2-part chorus. The 1-2-part one is simplified to be more appropriate for younger singers. Read the blog entry I wrote about In Tír na nÓg! Irish music at Eureka In 2024 and 2025, I organized collaborations between… Read more: Video: In Tír na nÓg for Irish band and chorus - Memento Rerum by Isabella Leonarda
I am delighted to share this repertoire blog contribution by Dr. Andrew Bruhn, an excellent conductor and composer who is the Director of Choral Activities at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. It happens that I share his fondness for the work of Isabella Leonarda and programmed her Magnificat in our Behind the Walls: Music from the Italian Convents concert with the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana a few years ago. I hope to program this piece soon, ideally Andrew Bruhn’s published edition from Hinshaw Music! Voicing: SATB a cappella (or with continuo) Why do singers… Read more: Memento Rerum by Isabella Leonarda - Among the Fuschias by Harry T. Burleigh, arr. Marques L. A. Garrett
I have decided to resume the Repertoire Blog function of my website, with contributions from friends and colleagues who would like to write about their favorite choral pieces. The first entry is one of mine, though: Among the Fuschias from Five Songs of Laurence Hope by Harry T. Burleigh, arranged for SATB chorus and piano by Marques L. A. Garrett. Score Preview and Choral Recording Voicing: SATB chorus and piano Why do singers like it? Among the Fuschias has gorgeous Romantic melodies and lots of dynamic contrast. Each phrase really lends itself well to expression, depicting the breathlessness… Read more: Among the Fuschias by Harry T. Burleigh, arr. Marques L. A. Garrett
