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Anthems
Anthems for Baritone and Piano Duration: 4:00Completed: 2011Instrumentation: Baritone and Piano Program Notes These Anthems are composed on poems of the English poet Richard Crashaw. Crashaw emerged from a time of great unrest between factions of Christianity in England, and unlike contemporaries such as John Milton, reflected the world that he saw in his work…
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Praetorius’ Ear
Praetorius’ Ear for Organ and Electronics Duration: 17:00Completed: 2012Instrumentation: Organ and Electronics Program Notes It started when he found the ear, he told me– it was a relic– and immediately knew that it was what he had been missing. He said that of course just as it had been impossible to really hear Johann Sebastian Bach on a modern piano and…
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Benediction
Benediction, for Soprano and Piano Duration: 8:00Completed: 2014Instrumentaion: Soprano, Piano, optional young musicians Program Notes Tucked in:Please come and tell me when it’s morning time, papa. The moon gives light in time of nightbut more so our dreams, By candle our minds write ‘Til we see the dawnbeams, Hidden in our round head,We journey far as merry…
Described as “evocative” (Resonance) and “surreal” music “to bewilder, amuse, and provoke” (Epoch Times), the works of composer Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice have won great acclaim and inspired intense debate. Burghart Rice received a 2009 ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Award and took 1st Prize in the 2005 Salvatore Martirano Award. Her music has been championed internationally by ensembles such as the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra (Marin Alsop, director), the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and Juventas.
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Some fantastic musicians and I are working on an album set to release on Neuma Records called Where?. This recording will feature older compositions such as Murmurs from Limbo (the picture above is from that recording session, conducted by Dr. Kathryn Hylton) and new compositions such as Roses less than a Mile from Schlow Library, which is written for the Pennsylvania Quintet. It also features Dr. Tonya Mitchell Spradlin conducting the premiere recording of my mammoth wind ensemble piece The Hardscrabble.
The Penn State School of Music, where I teach, presents the 2023 Penn State New-Music Festival and Symposium. It will take place March 24-25, 2023, featuring the work of composers and scholars selected through an international call for scores and research proposals. We received over 650 submissions from 30 countries. The 2023 festival will feature PSU students and faculty, string quartet in residence Mivos Quartet, guest ensemble Open Music, saxophone quartet Capitol Quartet, and guest percussion quartet Matchstick Percussion.
