Yearly Archives: 2011

CMTA Program

The Columbus Music Teachers Association (CMTA) (established 1930) numbers many fine central Ohio teachers among its membership including several Columbus Symphony Orchestra members. CMTA’s first program of the year, October 31, 2011, in a private home, featured works of Jerry Casey performed by members of the group and a few guests. These compositions included:

Celebration 25!

Celebration 25! (1995) by Jerry Casey won the Composers Concordance competition for composers 70 or older. It was performed at the Performing Center of St. Sava Cathedral on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. See below for more details of the performance. This article appeared in the New York Times.

Composers Concordance (Tuesday) This enterprising new-music organization presents the ensemble Circadia, a woodwind, string and piano quintet, in a program that includes works by Derek Bermel, Louis Calabro, Dan Cooper, Joseph Pehrson and Gene Pritsker. The program, called “Generations,” will also include works by the winners of two Composers Concordance competitions: one for a composer 20 or under, the other for a composer 70 or over. At 8 p.m., Performing Center of St. Sava Cathedral, 20 West 26th Street, Manhattan , (646) 522-9442, sequenza21.com/calendar/2011/05/composers-concordance-presents-generations/; $15; $10 for students and 65+. (Kozinn)

New York Performance

Celebration 25! (1995) by Jerry Casey won the Composers Concordance competition for composers 70 or older. It was performed at the Performing Center of St. Sava Cathedral on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. See below for more details of the performance. This article appeared in the New York Times.

Composers Concordance (Tuesday) This enterprising new-music organization presents the ensemble Circadia, a woodwind, string and piano quintet, in a program that includes works by Derek Bermel, Louis Calabro, Dan Cooper, Joseph Pehrson and Gene Pritsker. The program, called “Generations,” will also include works by the winners of two Composers Concordance competitions: one for a composer 20 or under, the other for a composer 70 or over. At 8 p.m., Performing Center of St. Sava Cathedral, 20 West 26th Street, Manhattan, (646) 522-9442; $15; $10 for students and 65+. (Kozinn)

See article here.

Over 30 minutes of tracks from Jerry Casey’s recently released CD, Yet, I Will Rejoice, were broadcast on the Scordatura Show at www.ktru.org, the radio internet station connected to Rice University in Houston, Texas, on the afternoon of May 14, 2011. The DJ, Hsin-jung, also read from the liner notes of her biography. Hsin-jung indicated the CD would now be put in their collection and would be played again and again.

Kokosing Farewell

The Parish Choir at Kenyon College commissioned Jerry Casey to write a duet arrangement of a Kenyon song, Kokosing Farewell, for two graduating seniors, Erin Ford and Lauren McNulty. The duet premiered May 8, at 10:30 a.m., at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

Shine As a Light

The Ministers’ Chorus of the Western Pennsylvania United Methodist Conference commissioned Jerry Casey to write a composition in memory of Paul and Claire Halstead, the founders and longtime leaders of the Chorus. The Chorus premiered the work, Shine As a Light, on April 28, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. at the Cochran Memorial United Methodist Church of Dawson, Pennsylvania.