Concert pianist to give recital at Robeson Center Nov 14, 2008
The program will include an exploration of American choral music from shape-note hymns to the music of Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Irving Fine, Randall Thompson, Stephen Paulus, William Walker and William Averitt. The performance will be conducted by Andrew Megill. (NJ.com -- Times)
Weekend calendar Oct 16, 2008
S KILLINGWORTH - On Oct. 26 at 4 p.m., Emmanuel Church will host "The Four Seasons Plus" autumn concert with Douglas Bruce on organ and The Fair Winds Brass Ensemble performing carefully selected works by Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Mozart, Randall Thompson and others in the historic setting. Admission is $15, students are $10, and children are free to the event on Emmanuel Church Road. (Middletown Press, CT)
UWEC choral festival to feature Chi-Hi band Oct 11, 2008
The final selection will be The Testament of Freedom by Randall Thompson. The Chippewa Falls High School Cardinal Concert Choir, directed by Ronald Buckles and assistant director Sarah Larson, will perform Sicut Locutus Est by Johann Sebastian Bach, Dirait-on by Morten Lauridsen, A Boy and a Girl by Eric Whitacre, and Ain t Got Time to Die by Hall Johnson. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Symphony Orchestra to present concert May 3, 2008
The magical evening of American music by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Stephen C. Foster, Henry Mancini, Randall Thompson and other great American composers marks the end of WSO s Fifteenth Anniversary season. We re very excited about the music of this concert, said WSO Maestro Dagang Chen. (Woodlands Villager, TX)
ASU - Jonesboro: Department of Music's choirs to present spring concert on April 21 Apr 17, 2008
The University Singers Women's Choir will begin the program with "Whilst Youthful Sports," a Renaissance madrigal by Thomas Weelkes; "Tantum Ergo," a Romantic period motet by Franz Liszt; and three twentieth-century pieces, "As Costureiras" by Heitor Villa-Lobos, "Alleluia, Amen" by Randall Thompson, and "Laughing Song" by Lloyd Pfautsch. Graduate student Jessica Crociata will provide oboe accompaniment for the Pfautsch selection. (Truman Democrat, AR)
Community Chorus concerts planned Apr 11, 2008
The concert features larger works by Randall Thompson and Mack Wilberg, complemented by a selection of spirituals. Randall Thompson s Frostiana is a collection based on well-known poems by the American poet Robert Frost. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Today in the arts Dec 16, 2007
THE STAMFORD CHORALE The group performs music by Randall Thompson, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington and more. $15. (Greenwich Time)
Tick Tock on the arts Dec 6, 2007
The program this year is an interesting mix of seasonal favorites as well as contemporary works of Yarron, Stahei, and Randall Thompson. Still another lovely tradition, the eccumenical collaboration of Thomaston churches, Evening Carol Walk, starts at St. Peter's- Trinity Church at 6 p.m., Dec 9. (Thomaston Express, CT)
Shippensburg University celebrates its new president Oct 27, 2007
The Shippensburg University Concert Choir sang two selections, The Last Words of David, by Randall Thompson, and Of Thee I Sing, By David Brunner. The Thompson piece opens with a quote from the Bible, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Time Out file Apr 14, 2007
The chorale will sing songs from different countries, each with a special flavor of its own, and also segments of The Testament of Freedom, by Randall Thompson, which set the writings of Thomas Jefferson to music. The Symphony Orchestra will perform individual, duet and small group performances of music not normally heard at a symphony performance: expect the unexpected. (Montana Standard, MT)
