Daniel Pinkham: News & Events

News & Performances

2008

King's Chapel Concert Series:

January 27:
New England Poetry

King's Chapel Choir and Soloists. Barbara Poeschl-Edrich, harp; Triton Brass. Heinrich Christensen, director

Daniel Pinkham: Getting to Heaven (Dickinson), Randall Thompson: selections from Frostiana (Frost), Scott Wheeler: Prospects (Anthony Hecht). Newly commissioned: Carson Cooman (Elizabeth Kirschner), Kevin Siegfried ( H.D. Thoureau)

Though a world traveler, Dan was born and bred in New England and made his career at home in Boston. He loved poetry and set many of his favorite poems to music.

March 2:
Organ and Brass

Triton Brass; Heinrich Christensen, organ

Pinkham: Morning Music. Arrangements of popular classics by Handel, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, and more

Dan wrote a number of works for organ and brass, a combination he particularly liked.
http://www.kings-chapel.org/music.html#ConcertSeries

April 13:
American Choral Classics

King's Chapel Choir and Soloists. Richard Conrad, narrator; Ross Wood, organ; Barbara Poeschl-Edrich, harp; John Grimes, percussion. Heinrich Christensen, director

Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Aaron Copland: In the Beginning
Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei
Daniel Pinkham: The Creation of the World

These works that have become modern American choral classics place Dan in the context of some of his contemporaries who influenced him.

Other Events:

Saturday, March 29; 8:00 pm

The Spectrum Singers present AN AMERICAN SAMPLER
Emmanuel Church, Boston's Back Bay

A diverse and entertaining selection of the finest accompanied and a cappella American choral works...

Aaron Copland: In the Beginning
with Krista River, mezzo-soprano

Irving Fine: The Choral New Yorker

Ernest Bacon: John Hardy, Colorado Trail, Shouting Pilgrim

Kurt Weill: Kiddush

Daniel Pinkham: (work tba)

www.spectrumsingers.org

Saturday, April 26

Boston Classical Guitar Society's NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008 Concert in honor of Daniel Pinkham
4:00 - Robert Paul Sullivan - pre-concert talk on the life and works of Daniel Pinkham
4:30 - 5:45 - Concert in honor of Daniel Pinkham in the Raytheon Amphitheatre with:
Arc Duo - Heather Holden, flute and Bradley Colten, guitar, perform "The Seasons Pass" and "Nocturnes"
Duo Maresienne - Olav Chris Henriksen, lute and Carol Lewis, gamba, perform "Sagas"
Daniel Acsadi, guitar and Thea Lobo, mezzo soprano, perform "Charm Me Asleep"
Berit Strong, guitar, performs "Four Interludes" from the "Dreadful Dining car".
Tickets to the event are $15 at the door or go to www.bostonguitar.org for online advance sales. A Festival pass for the full day's events are $50 in advance

Media

DANIEL PINKHAM: THE SOLO ORGAN WORKS is the subject of an extensive article by famed historian Barbara Owen in the September 2005 issue of The American Organist.

Choral Journal Vol. 45 Issue 3 contains an in-depth review of The Covenant Motets.

L'ORGUE, the official bulletin of the Amis de l'Orgue Number 262, contains a major article (in French) on Pinkham's works for solo organ. The author is the American organ historian Barbara Owen. Carolyn Shuster-Fournier made the translation into French.

Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe reviews the June 5 performance of Garden Party and The Cask of Amontillado.

T.J. Medrek of The Boston Herald reviews the premiere of Make Way For Ducklings.

Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe reviews the June 21st premiere of Ducklings.

New CD releases

ARSIS CD151
Daniel Pinkham: Two One-Act Operas
The Cask of Amontillado
Garden Party
The Chorus and Orchestra of the Boston Academy of Music
John Finney, conductor

ARSIS SACD402
Heinrich Christensen Plays the C.B. Fisk Organ, King's Chapel, Boston
Pinkham: A Flourish, A Vision and A Commandment

ARSIS CD143
Daniel Pinkham:
Music for Brass and Brass & Organ
Huntington Brass Quintet
Abbey Hallberg Siegfried, organ

ARSIS CD116
Come to Me (Love Songs for Chorus by American Composers) features Love Can Be Still among other works by Hopkins, Conte, Nestor, Stevens, Marshall, and Barber.