On February 15 and 16, Subito M
usic is off to Harvard Square to participate in the 2013 Harvard Women’s Choral Festival. With over 350 singers from around the US, the festival highlights concerts, seminars, panel discussions, and reading sessions of new works for women’s chorus. Grammy-nominee and internationally acclaimed a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock will be in residence; and included among the many performing ensembles are: the Radcliffe Choral Society; the Lorelei Ensemble; Cornell University Chorus; Vassar College Women’s Chorus; The Sisters of Kuumba, and the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus.
We’ve also been invited to take part in a panel discussion about writing new music for women’s choral ensemble. For more details, visit the festival website at: www.womenschoralfestival.org. And… if you’re in the area, and…you’re a singer or choral conductor…come join us, grab a score, and sing!
Subito works featured at the new music reading-session include:
Allen Brings: Shall I die for Mannis Sake?
Dan Locklair: “A Winter Twilight” Mvt. 2 from WINTER (from the forgottens)
(Commissioned and premiered by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society)
Leanna Primiani: Paraklesis
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR): Black Men Singing
Faye-Ellen Silverman: For Showing Truth
Judith Lang Zaimont: “Friends” from Life Cycle