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May 2012 Newsletter
CONTENTS:
Major New Work from James MacMillan
Roxanna Panufnik:
First Woman Composer in Psalms Project
New Gavin Bryars Psalm
Peter Bannister Premiere
“A Fervent St. John Passion Soars!”
Kellogg Premiere Recap
Furman Residency Recap
New Reviews of The Soli Deo Gloria Collection
Psalms Project Update
What’s ahead . . .
What’s new on the web . . .
February 2012 newsletter
St. John Passion during Holy Week
Program Notes from the St. John Passion
South Dakota Is the Place to Be
SDG Highlights
Board Updates
SDG Commissions to Premiere in Wales
Wyner Psalm Recap
The CEO Search Is On
New Reviews of Our Beethoven Missa Solemnis DVD
Don't Miss This!
What's Ahead . . .
November 2011 newsletter
Sandström Premiere Transcends East Coast Storm
A Musical & Visual Feast!
Chicago Bach Project Tickets Now on Sale
Premiere of Have Mercy on Me, O God
by Vache Sharafyan
Yehudi Wyner Psalm Premiere
South Dakota Symphony Premieres New
Daniel Kellogg Commission
What’s happening at SDG . . .
What’s ahead . . .
September 2011 Newsletter
CONTENTS:
Announcing a Double Release in The
Soli Deo Gloria Collection, October 25, 2011
Looking Forward to Premiere of
Sandström Commission
SDG Commissions New Work by One of Armenia’s
Most Important Living Composers
Call for Choirs
GoodShop: Save & Support SDG at the Same Time
SDG in Transition
Announcing Chicago Bach Project 2012
MacMillan Recap
Board Updates
Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at St. Denis Festival
What's Ahead . . .
May 2011 Newsletter
CONTENTS:
MacMillan Visits Chicago for Premiere
St. Matthew Passion Live Broadcast
Launch of 3-Year Pilot Program
SDG Makes Its Calvin College Debut
Premiere of Peter Bannister's Psalm 96
Board Updates
Did You Know?
What's Ahead . . .
February 2011 Newsletter
CONTENTS:
Chicago Bach Project Is Generating
Huge Excitement!
Psalms Project: Full Steam Ahead
Chicago Bach Project Soloists
Redesigned with You in Mind
- A New Home on the Web
The Lost Son Recap
O Greening Branch Recap
Board Updates
September 2010 newsletter
CONTENTS:
The Sound of Angels?
A Grand Statement
Pärt in Person!
Crescendo Institute Touches Hearts and Lives
August 2010 newsletter
CONTENTS:
A Song of Hope
Passion & Purpose
The Power of Art
Meet a most inspiring man . . .
“Charitable Children”
“It’s a Wrap!”
What’s ahead . . .
June 2010 newsletter
CONTENTS:
Haydn’s Masterpiece: THE CREATION
First View of Missa Solemnis DVD
New Arvo Pärt Work
Peter Bannister Named Composer-in-Association
New Board Member
SDG in Full Swing for Upcoming Season
Peter Bannister Speaks from the Heart
Project Uplift: Making Music Ministry Happen
March 2010 newsletter
CONTENTS:
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
Haydn’s The Creation
Premiere of The Lost Son by Neal Harnly
Under construction
Upcoming Events
Preserve Me, O God by Daniel Kellogg
May 2012
“Music is a higher revelation
than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the electrical soil in which
the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”
—Ludwig van Beethoven
Scottish composer James MacMillan
February 2012
“Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder
as to who we are,
and for what, whence, and whereto.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
St. Vincent de Paul Church, Chicago,
home of the Chicago Bach Project
November 2011
“Music is great if, at some moment,
the listener catches a glimpse of eternity
through the window of time.”
— Einojuhani Rautavaara
Andrew Megill, Irene Forte and
Sven-David Sandström at Westminster Choir College
September 2011
“Music gives a soul to the universe,
wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination,
and life to everything.”
— Plato
New DVDs from The Soli Deo Gloria Collection
May 2011
“Music is not an escape from reality;
it is an adventure into the reality
of the world of the spirit.”
—Ethnomusicologist John Blacking
St. Denis Basilica, site of
St. Matthew Passion filming
February 2011
"Bach opens a vista to the universe.
After hearing him, people feeel
there is meaning to life after all."
— Helmut Walcha, blind German organist
who recorded Bach’s complete works twice
Peter Bannister,
Psalms Project Program Director
September 2010
“The aim and final end of all music
should be none other
than the glory of God
and the refreshment of the soul.”
—Johann Sebastian Bach
Indianapolis Children's Choir,
Henry Leck, conductor
August 2010
“There is nothing in the world
so much like prayer as music is.”
—William P. Merrill,
author, pastor, hymnwriter (1867-1954)
Millenium Centre, Wales,
site of Arvo Pärt premiere
June 2010
Grote Kerk, Netherlands,
site of The Creation filming
March 2010
Gulbenkian Choir and
Chamber Orchestra of Europe,
John Nelson, conductor,
for the filming of Missa Solemnis
