I retired in 2007 from a full time elementary music teaching job, for which I did a lot of composition work.  In addition to writing and arranging for my choirs I also wrote and produced at least three musical performances each year.  Many of these are about topics that are in the grade-level classroom curricula, which got great buy-in from the classroom teachers, and were very fun for me to write because I got to learn so much while I was writing them, while I was also honing my skills at writing for children's voices.

 

 

 

To avoid lines on concert day, buy your tickets early for our next concert, Bridge of Songs. We will sing of the borders that mark our world: those between countries and between youth and experience, slavery and freedom, life and death. 

 

The concert will feature canonical works by Rachmaninoff, Tschesnokoff, and Schubert and contemporary pieces by female composers, among them Oregon-based Lana Walter. In May she will fly to Chapel Hill to work with the chorus on her setting of "Lux Aeterna" and be our special guest at the concert. "I set out to write one of those lovely luminous pieces about light, full of nice harmonies and tone colors," Walter says. "But what came out was quick rhythmic stuff. I realized that light is energy and energy is motion. So I started thinking of the 'lux' in this piece as energy being transmitted by molecules dancing with each other." Don't miss our performance of this incredible work—or your chance to meet the composer in person.