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Mon film is a soulful composition that uses minor mode. It is built of 64 bars dedicated to my Cousin, born in 1964, and prematurely deceased. I shoot here the film based on her life's scenario...

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The concerto has always seemed an especially attractive medium to me, not necessarily because of its expectations of virtuosity (although flaunting it when you've got it certainly has its place), and emphatically not because of the perception of a concerto as a contest, but because so much of what I write feels song-like; I'm very much at home with the age-old texture of melody and accompaniment. I hope, before I move on, to have the opportunity to write concertos for all the major instruments, and perhaps some of the rarer ones as well. The oboe is not only one of the major instruments, it is one of my favorite instruments. I've always loved its sound, but since moving to New York I have gotten to hear and, in some cases, know some extremely fine oboists who broadened my appreciation of the instrument's possibilities. I especially remember a concert, probably in the late 1960's, in which Humbert Lucarelli played a Handel concerto, filling out large melodic leaps with cascading scale passages in a way that raised the hair on the back of your neck, somewhat in the way that John Coltrane's sheets of sound did. The sweeping scales in the second movement of my concerto were definitely inspired by Bert Lucarelli's performance. The first, third and fifth movements of the Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra are song-like, whereas the second and fourth have strong scherzo and dance qualities, including a couple of sections that sound like out-and-out pirate dances to me. The hymn-like tune at the beginning of the middle movement was originally begun as a vocal piece to be sung by my wife, son and daughter at my brother's wedding, but I couldn't come up with good works for it, so it ended up as an instrumental chant. The opening and closing of the concerto make use of the oboe's uniquely soulful singing. I had not heard Pamela Woods Pecha's solo playing in person when she approached me about writing a concerto, but I had heard her fine recording of chamber music for oboe and strings by the three B's (English, that is: Bliss, Bax and Britten) with the Audubon Quartet. I actually already had some oboe concerto ideas in my sketchbooks; although I didn't end up using any of those earlier ideas, it's interesting that most of them tended to share the general feeling and tonality of the eventual opening of the concerto. The work was completed on October 13, 1994. I hate the compromises involved in making piano reductions -- perhaps I would feel differently if I were a more accomplished pianist -- so I often decide to make piano reductions for four hands rather than two. My good friend Jon Kimura Parker is a terrific sight-reader, and I roped him into coming over to my place on February 17, 1995, to help me accompany Pamela on the first read-through of the piece. The first performance of the work took place on July 21, 1995, at the American Music Festival in Duncan, Oklahoma, with Mark Parker conducting the Festival Orchestra.

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Southern Gospel Songs…

Just mention that phrase, and a certain sound and style immediately come to mind. And it comes simultaneously as both a visual and an audible trigger. It is sight and sound encapsulated in so many shapes and forms…from the original, iconic male quartet with a stride-style piano man, to the famous mixed groups—usually a family; Dad, Mom, sons and daughters, spouses—to the not infrequent trio, sometimes all male, sometimes all female, sometimes mixed voices, and even the occasional solo artist…all delivering soulful, joyful, heartfelt and inspiring songs. Songs for the church. Southern Gospel Songs. Songs about life, about prayer, about joy, about sadness, about Heaven, about victory, about coming home and about going home; songs of cheer, songs of love, songs of conviction, songs of salvation…Southern Gospel Songs. And whether you first heard one of these songs sung by a quartet, a mixed group, a trio, a soloist, performed with piano accompaniment only, a full band, or accompanied by an orchestra, you haven’t really heard it until you’ve heard it sung by a choir! Southern Gospel Songs for Southern Gospel Choirs...one of the sweetest sounds this side of Heaven!

That’s what this book, with its dynamic arrangements by Marty Hamby, is all about -- Southern Gospel radio hits, classic Southern Gospel songs, and new and emerging Southern Gospel hits; they are all ready and waiting for you to add the one missing ingredient… your choir! So grab your robes, get your choir folders in hand, do a vocal warm-up or two, and get ready to “sing the glory down” with this great new collection of Southern Gospel Songs!