choral award

I got word last night that A Grass-Green Pillow (a movement from the first volume of Color Madrigals) won the 11th Annual Composition Competition sponsored by the Cambridge Chamber Singers. Whoo-hoo!They're set to perform it in May so hopefully I will be able to make it out east to hear them sing it!

Check out the MySpace page if you'd like to hear a recording of the piece (premiered last May by The Singers) and, in honor of its namesake color, here is an appropriately green-filled picture from the archives. I took this one in Scotland a few summers ago during a 6-week backpacking stint in western Europe. It's a garden on the grounds of Stirling Castle.

Since the third (and final) volume of Color Madrigals will premiere later tonight, it seems they've come full circle. One of the first pieces is making it out there just as the final movements are being launched. Hopefully that means they have a good future as a whole set. (Fingers crossed.)