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The regional conference of Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers (CFAMC) held on November 5, 2011, at Nyack College, Nyack, New York, featured three of Jerry Casey’s works, Mine Were the Hands for voice and piano, recording of Prelude from Seven (A Suite for Orchestra) paired with the photograph, “Forest Light” (Paul Kiler), and the hymn tune Circle of Thorn (hymnody of Richard Leach).
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! (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)
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.
Canary Burton in the March 2, 2011 broadcast of her program, The Latest Score on WOMR-FM from Provinceton, MA played What Shall We Bring? and Come Light Serene from Jerry’s recently released CD, Yet, I Will Rejoice. In the August 30th broadcast of her program, Canary played two additional works from Jerry’s CD: How Do I Love Thee? and Yet, I Will Rejoice.
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.
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.
Jerry Casey's Psalm of Praise and Hope was presented at the 2011 Tutti New Music Festival at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. The performance was in Burke Hall; the performers were Belinda Andrews-Smith, soprano; Leslie Maaser, flute; and Sarah Ramsey, piano.
Autumn (poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) for SSAATB a cappella choir was premiered on November 21, 2010 at the 2010 Fall Concert of the Otterbein University Concert Choir under the direction of Gayle Walker. The Concert Choir toured China, November 29 through December 10, 2010. Autumn was a part of the tour program.
November, for soprano and cello quartet, was performed on “Sundays at the Huntington” (Capital University) , on Sunday, October 24, 2010. Performers were Cynthia Mahaney and the Columbus Cellos (Linda Bollas, Jerrie Cribb, Marcia Jones, and Anne Marie Slater).
Harlequinade for Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon and Woodblock was performed at the Biannual Conference of Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers (CFAMC), October 15, 2010 at Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana. A woodwind trio (Melissa Huempfner, flute; Andrea Hoyt, clarinet; Allison Buck, bassoon) from Ball State University performed the work.
Three Moods (for Horn and Piano) was performed at the 13th London New Wind Festival, Tuesday September 28, 2010, 7.30 p.m., at St. Cyprian's Church, Glentworth Street, London , England.
On June 5, 2010 the Otterbein University Concert Choir was joined by the Otterbein University Chamber Orchestra for the premiere of Yet I Will Rejoice (SSATB with Chamber Orchestra) under the direction of Gayle Walker for its Spring Concert.
November (poetry of William Cullen Bryant) for Soprano and Cello Quartet was premiered at the Women in Music—Columbus Spring Composers Forum on May 1, 2010. Cynthia Mahaney was the soprano accompanied by the Columbus Cellos (Linda Bollas, Jerrie Cribb, Marcia Jones, and Anne Marie Slater).
The Konza Winds, the Kansas State University Faculty Woodwind Quintet, performed Gli intrighi d’amore (The Intrigues of Love) at the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) Region VI Conference in Manhattan, Kansas, on March 26, 2010.
On February 27, 2010, the Otterbein University Concert Choir under the direction of Gayle Walker premiered What Shall We Bring? (SSAATTBB a cappella) as part of its Winter Concert. Mrs. Casey was named semi-finalist in the 2008 Sorel Medallion Choral Composition Competition for this work.
O, Death, Rock Me Asleep was performed on the concert, “A New Millennium of Music: Women in Song,” on January 31, 2010, in Brandi Recital Hall, at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. The concert featured adjunct music instructors of Kenyon performing music by living women composers written since the year 2000. Tamara Seckel, soprano, and Cole Dachenhaus (student), violin, presented the work.
The First Noel (SAB with Piano) Choir of Worthington Baptist Church, Worthington, Ohio, December 20, 2009. (New setting of the words of the familiar carol.) Premiere
Who Would Have Thought It? God Did! (Christmas cantata), Church Choir of Church of the Redeemer United Methodist Church, Columbus, Ohio, under the direction of Kathy Vansant, December 20, 2009
Out of the Depths (solo piano), Victoria Tsangari, piano, at the joint conference of Iowa Composers Forum and Society of Composers, Inc., Region V, Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, October 9, 2009. (This work was commissioned by Iowa Composers Forum through the Marilynn Etzel Piano Commission Fund.) Premiere
Swingin’ Suite for Two Cellos (Movements 2 and 3) Jerrie Cribb and Anne-Marie Slater, cellists, “Sundays at the Huntington” (Chamber Series of Women in Music – Columbus), Huntington Recital Hall, Columbus, Ohio, March 1, 2009. Premiere