May 11, 2004

Meira Warshauer’s “We Are Dreamers”

Music by Meira Warshauer Featured in South Carolina Symphonic Chorale Concert on May 16 Meira Warshauer’s “We Are Dreamers” will be featured in a special concert, “Home Sweet Carolina”, presented by the South Carolina Symphonic Chorale, Timothy Koch, Music Director and Conductor, on Sunday, May 16, 2004, 3 PM at Washington Street Methodist Church, 1401 Washington Street, Columbia South Carolina. Tickets for the May 16 concert are $10, $8(seniors) and $6(children). For reservations and more concert information, please call the CCS at (803) 933-9060.

This concert will present sacred and secular choral music of four of the Carolina’s finest composers, including Dan Locklair of Winston-Salem, N.C., Ms. Warshauer of Columbia, S.C., Trevor Weston of Charleston, S.C. and Larry Shackley of Columbia. The South Carolina Symphonic Chorale, formerly the Columbia Choral Society, is a nonprofit organization that performs a variety of concert material, from Broadway Favorites to the Brahms Requiem and their "Messiah" sing-a-long. Learn more about them at their website - http://www.geocities.com/columbiachoral/. Meira Warshauer’s “We Are Dreamers”, for SATB chorus, clarinet, percussion and piano, was commissioned in honor of the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel. The text is Psalm 126, whose theme is the return of exiles to Zion. This psalm, sung after festive meals on Sabbath and holidays, has sustained generations of Jews in exile. The work was commissioned by a consortium of Jewish choral ensembles led by Zamir Chorale of Boston, along with the Rottenberg Chorale of New York; Gratz College Choir of Pennsylvania; Zemer Chai of Washington, DC; and Kol Dodi of New Jersey. The melodies, from Yemen, Morocco, and Greece/Salonika were found at the National Sound Archives of the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem, Israel. Ms. Warshauer’s compositions have been performed and recorded to critical acclaim throughout the United States and in Israel, Europe, and Asia. A graduate of Harvard, New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of South Carolina, Dr. Warshauer studied composition with Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, William Thomas McKinley, and Gordon Goodwin. She has received numerous awards from ASCAP as well as the America Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the South Carolina Arts Commission. In 2000, she received the first Art and Cultural Achievement Award from the Jewish Historical Society of S. Carolina. Ms. Warshauer is an Associate Music Faculty member at Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina. Her CDs include the soundtrack to the documentary “Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina” and "Spirals of Light", chamber music and poetry (by Ani Tuzman) on themes of enlightenment, on the Kol Meira label and "Revelation" for orchestra, included on the MMC CD “Robert Black Conducts”. Her music is published by Oxford University Press, MMB Music and Transcontinental. Her latest Bracha Newsletter is online at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/march04/MW_nws_030904.htm. You can find much more about her at - http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/ For more information about Meira Warshauer, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net. Posted by jmwc at May 11, 2004 09:54 AM | TrackBack