Music by DANIEL DORFF |
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| Alleluia in D for SATB Chorus, a cappella | |
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Duration: c. 2' DETAILS PERFORMANCES include College Misericordia choir at St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC. HEAR a live Easter performance by the Philadelphia Festival Choir, conducted by Robert Ross (great performance but there is background noise). BUY from your favorite sheet music dealer or direct from Presser. PROGRAM NOTES Through my friend and former classmate Christina Lynn, in the 1980s I became friends with her father, the composer and choral conductor George Lynn. I was already a fan of George's music, and I think he appreciated my neo-traditional composing. George once mentioned he had recently composed a "textless Alleluia" (meaning just that 1-word text is sung), and he wondered if I ever considered doing this. I hadn't until he asked, but it seemed an interesting way to write for chorus without considering the pacing or diction of the sung text, and Alleluia in D was composed soon after this. REVIEWS "adds a further example to the growing body of Alleluias to emerge from American organ lofts." – Music Teacher (UK), July 1991. Recommended in The American Organist by Philip Brunelle, November 1991. |
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