christmas daybreak
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Christina Rossetti(1830ndash1894)
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commissioned by The Bridge Ensemble Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Catalog No 6025
Robert Convery
for SATB Chorus unaccompanied
Christmas Daybreak
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Program Notes
Robert Convery
September 10-11 20-21 1996Folly Beach South Carolina
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Robert Convery expresses his music in a distinctly personal voice of lyricism which is transparent clean and unadorned in its rhythmic harmonic and textural fields He has composed works of every description including twenty-two cantatas five operas ten song cycles motets chamber works and orchestral works He has received commissioning grants from many sources including colleges and universities The Rockefeller Foundation Pew Charitable Trusts National Endowment for the Arts and Opera America He travels regularly for composer residencies at colleges and universities throughout the country His studies were at Westminster Choir College The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School where he received his doctorate His principle teachers have been David Diamond Richard Hundley Vincent Persichetti and Ned Rorem Born in Wichita Kansas in 1954 he was raised in California and now resides in New York
Christmas Daybreak on a poem by Christina Rossetti (1830ndash1894) was commissioned by The Bridge Ensemble Philadelphia Pennsylvania in a series of commissions for newly composed Christmas carols This carol has been performed many times since its creation and first performance which was given by The Bridge Ensemble Donald Nally Director in December 1996
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Program Notes
Robert Convery
September 10-11 20-21 1996Folly Beach South Carolina
3rsquo30rdquo
29
poco rit
12
poco rit3
winKing
a
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strangweath
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Glo
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Robert Convery expresses his music in a distinctly personal voice of lyricism which is transparent clean and unadorned in its rhythmic harmonic and textural fields He has composed works of every description including twenty-two cantatas five operas ten song cycles motets chamber works and orchestral works He has received commissioning grants from many sources including colleges and universities The Rockefeller Foundation Pew Charitable Trusts National Endowment for the Arts and Opera America He travels regularly for composer residencies at colleges and universities throughout the country His studies were at Westminster Choir College The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School where he received his doctorate His principle teachers have been David Diamond Richard Hundley Vincent Persichetti and Ned Rorem Born in Wichita Kansas in 1954 he was raised in California and now resides in New York
Christmas Daybreak on a poem by Christina Rossetti (1830ndash1894) was commissioned by The Bridge Ensemble Philadelphia Pennsylvania in a series of commissions for newly composed Christmas carols This carol has been performed many times since its creation and first performance which was given by The Bridge Ensemble Donald Nally Director in December 1996
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