Since today's the first Sunday of Advent, here's the opening section of my "Appalachian Carols for My Father," which I wrote for the Chamber Choir of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus around 1984. In twenty years as their staff arranger, I wrote a lot of pieces, some for special occasion, some revisons of things I'd written earlier for them, and maybe at most ten arrangements or compositions that I am really proud of. Sadly, most of those 10 were never commercially recorded and sit in limbo. the Appalachian Carols is one of them. this is an archival tape of the piece's first performance at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Dean X. Johnson. After 30 years, it still bothers me that he had the Chamber Choir sing the piece with southern accents. Dean was a talented man and a dear friend who died far too young.https://soundcloud.com/user5614139/appalachian-carols-1-a-virgin-most-pure
I was wrong. It wasn't $6,000.+. It was just over $8,000.!
So rude of me to interrupt Vixmom.
continued dental vibes to Vixmom. May you heal quickly and completely.
DR VIXMOM I would like 1776 and the Neil Simon volumes.