Spirituality
CANTUS JUBILUS
24th Oct 2010Posted in: Choir, Portfolio, Premiere, Spirituality, Sublime 1

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The University of Minnesota Singers
Cantus Jubilus (cantus, Lat., ‘song’, ‘melody’; jubilus, Lat., ‘shout of joy’), a work for unaccompanied mixed choir and soloists, takes its title from a name often associated with a joyful setting of a song without text – a type of chant more typically described as [...]

Swan Composition Prize
14th Oct 2010Posted in: Blog, Choir, Composition, News, Premiere, Spirituality 0

The University of Minnesota School of Music is pleased to announce that the winning work of the 2011 Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize is a choral work, Cantus Jubilus by Zvonimir Nagy. This choral work will be premiered by the University Singers under the batons of Kathy Saltzman Romey and Matthew Mehaffey on Saturday, [...]

Old Town Organ Vespers

St. Michael in Old Town Church in Chicago is home to one the few remaining Kilgen pipe organs. The Kilgen Organ Company from St. Louis, was arguably one the most famous organ manufacturers in the late 1800′s, and was especially known for the quality of its church pipe organs. In order to sustain raising awareness [...]