SOTD – July

Today we hear Kevin Memley’s “Dream Land” from a poem by Christina Rossetti.  It is number four in his pick of his top six favorites. Kevin is currently the full …

Number five on Kevin’s favorites list is “Magnificat.”  Consort sang it for Opus 19, in 2012.  Then many of us went to New York to sing it again at Carnegie …

Since 2010 Consort has sung 12 compositions by Kevin A. Memley, including a number of pieces while on tour with the Allan Petker Chorale.  Kevin is our most performed composer …

We’ve been so busy honoring contemporary composers, black composers, touring around the world, and celebrating holidays, that it’s been over a month since we’ve included a classical composer!  So today …

We conclude our tour of the Baltics with Kevin Memley’s “Sister Gone,” a poem by William Barnes.  It is about a girl left behind after her sister’s wedding.   Because we …

Estonia held its first song festival, Laulupidu, in 1869.  The grounds where it is held became the focal point of the “Singing Revolution,” which helped win its independence between 1987 …

This is the third day of our miniseries on the tour of the Baltics and the second day of our nested miniseries on freedom and independence. We hope you are …

This is the second day of our Tour of the Baltics miniseries. In celebration of the Fourth of July weekend we now start a three day nested miniseries on what …

The Allan Petker Chorale’s third tour was to the Baltics including St. Petersburg, Russia, Tallinn, Estonia, and Stockholm, Sweden in 2014. Quiz of the DayIn Croatia we discovered Klapa, traditional a cappella …

The younger sister of noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, Lili Boulanger was a child prodigy who studied with Gabriel Fauré. She was the first female composer to win …

Missa Brevis Boreal was published by Dr. Matthew Emery at the age of 24.  He is perhaps the youngest composer in Consort’s repertoire and a Canadian composer, fitting for today because it is Canada Day, the …