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Apologies for not posting in a while: I am in the processes of loading all my books and a few personal items into cardboard boxes and dumping them into my new office, which needs some serious interior design work, as you can see in this photo.
I've also been working on a last-minute commission for the Contemporary Arts Center, which is now done and will be performed in less than two weeks. My librettist and I brainstormed and decided it would be a three-movement choral piece (SATB) entitled Drei Brücken, which will depict Cincinnati's past, present, and future via the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, the current Brent Spence Bridge, and the future Brent Spence Bridge.
After this piece premieres, my librettist and I would like to have this piece performed again, and so she was diligently searching for other performance opportunities. She discovered the International Choral Bulletin 2012 Composition Competition's site, which lists guidelines here. Here is how they begin.
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