Choral Music;Loss;Love;and Renewal;A Procession Winding Around Me;Magnificat - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach;Five Mystical Songs - Ralph Vaughan Williams;Messiah - George Frideric Handel;Music and Dance;Arts;Music: Conducting
Case, IV, George EdwardRogers , Jr., Eugene Cardell ;
The dissertation consisted of three conducting recitals.Recital 1: November 20th, 2012, Stamps Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ensemble: University of Michigan Arts Chorale. Program: To Be Sung On the Water, Op. 42, no.2 by Samuel Barber, At the River by Aaron Copland, Bow thine ear, O Lord by William Byrd, Jerusalem from Paulus, Op. 36 by Felix Mendelssohn, Land of Rest (Jerusalem, my happy home) arranged by George Case, Wedding Cantata by Daniel Pinkham, Come ready and see me by Richard Hundley, Cells Planets by Erika Lloyd and arranged by Vince Peterson, Sure on this shining night, Op.13, no. 3 by Samuel Barber, The Road Home by Stephen Paulus, Let the River Run by Carly Simon and arranged by Craig Hella Johnson. December 9th, 2012, Stamps Auditorium, University of Michigan. Ensemble: University of Michigan Orpheus Singers. Program: First five movements from Magnificat by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.Recital 2: April 9th, 2013, Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan. Ensemble: University of Michigan Arts Chorale. Program: Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Messiah: Part III by George Frideric Handel. Recital 3: February 15, 2013, University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ensemble: University of Michigan Chamber Choir. Program: Factus est repente by James MacMillan, Miserere mei by Henry Purcell, and Sfogava con le stelle by Claudio Monteverdi. February 24th, 2013, Stamps Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ensemble: University of Michigan Orpheus Singers. Program: Yver, vous n;;estes qu;;un villain by Claude Debussy and This little light of mine arranged by Moses Hogan. May 1, 2013, First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ensemble: Selected singers from the University of Michigan. Program: At the round earth’s imagined corners by Williametta Spencer, A Procession Winding Around Me by Jeffrey Van, and My Soul, there is a country by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry.