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Carmen Helena Tellez & Jan Harrington

La Ciudad Celeste and Other Choral Works by Juan Orrego Salas

A beautiful collection of choral works by Chilean composer Juan Orrego Salas, including a shimmering account of the Celestial City described in John's Revelation, cast for baritone, orchestra and chorus, performed by the Indiana University Contemporary Vo

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Stanley Cornett, tenor

Make Someone Happy

Consistently praised by the press for his beauty of tone and elegant style, this silvery tenor emanates through a retrospective montage of live recordings in concert, recital, and opera. 2-CD Set.

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Rob Gardner

Joseph Smith the Prophet: Live at Abravanel

A powerful sacred work for choir, orchestra, and soloists celebrating the life and mission of Joseph Smith, recorded live at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City.

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Dan and Heidi Goeller

The Word Became Flesh

A forty-five minute Christmas work for choir, orchestra, and narrator that explores the doctrine of the incarnation in an epic, film-score fashion.

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Dr. Leo W. Pickett

To Love Him Is To Know Him

Classically trained he sings opera, oratorio, Broadway, and contemporary Christian music.

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Boris Christoff

Bulgarian And Russian Orthodox Chants

One of the best and most famous bass opera voices of our century, singing orthodox chants. VISIT www.bulgarianmusic.net

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Krista Adams Santilli

Sacrae Notae

An elegant collection of sacred music masterpieces, soulfully interpreted by American lyric soprano Krista Adams Santilli.

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Brenda Roberts

Glory, Glory Alleluja

"The Roberts voice is opulent, large, extraordinarily beautiful, and made to order for the big, dramatic roles." (Chicago Tribune) "Capable of the most expressive legato and gleaming high C's." (Musical America)

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Christian McLeer

Requiem

Critically acclaimed composer, Christian McLeer hits home run with Remarkable Theater Brigade's premiere of his exciting and dramatic oratorio, Requiem: starring Steven Crawford, Monica Harte, Jessica Miller, Wayne Hobbs & Henry Runey.

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Robert Ian Winstin

Oedipus Requiem

Award winning Requiem based upon the Oedipus tragedy (Sophocles) by Robert Ian Winstin.

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Somtow Sucharitkul

Requiem: In Memoriam 9/11

Commissioned by the Thai government as a gift to the victims of the 9/11 tragedy, this epic choral work is heard in a live performance by the Orpheus Choir of Bangkok and the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra.

From Press Material before the premiere: The Thai government has asked composer Somtow Sucharitkul to create a large-scale work as a memorial for the September 11 tragedy in the United States. The work will form part of a concert dedicated to the tragedy and to world peace, which will take place on January 11 next year. The concert will also include another specially commissioned work, the World Peace Overture by Austrian composer Klaus Ager, former director of the Mozarteum in Salzburg. When asked by Dr. Sugree Charoensook, director of the event, to write a memorial piece for this concert, Somtow demurred. He had already been asked by the Norwegian Government to compose a song cycle, Songs Before Dawn, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize; the work was just finished and is just about to go into rehearsal for its December premiere in Bangkok. "My feelings about the tragedy in New York and Washington are very personal," he said. "I have friends right now digging in the rubble for bodies, helping on the anthrax team. In the 1970s, I even worked in a small office in the Pentagon, helping then Secretary of the Navy William Middendorf with musical arrangements. I'm a child of both Thailand and America. At first, I did not want my private grief to become hijacked into a media circus. Also, working in the music community in Bangkok is fraught with conflicts and petty factions. I did not think I could deal with that at the same time as doing the six-month job of writing a large-scale piece within a quarter of the time it would normally take." However, Somtow kept receiving emails from friends and acquaintances in the States urging him to write the music, naming friends who had died in the tragedy, friends whose lives had been devastated. He remembered that while he was spending time as a Buddhist monk a few months ago, during meditation, lines from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets kept whirling around in his mind. It was those lines that came to him again: "The dove descending breaks the air/With flame of incandescent terror .... Who then devised the torment? Love." "I wept," Somtow said, "and then I began composing the Requiem. At that point, it was no longer about politics; it was about finding hope, conciliation, and renewal in the ruins." Texts actually set include four poems about death by Emily Dickinson, and the moving "Reconciliation" by Walt Whitman.

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