Dan Locklair’s A Pilgrim’s Lot will be performed by the Piedmont Wind Symphony (Robert Simon, Artistic Director) as part of A Celebration of Winston-Salem on Tuesday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. at Brendle Recital Hall. Locklair is composer-in-residence and professor of music at Wake Forest.

“A Pilgrim’s Lot (A Concert Piece for Band) was composed for my Wake Forest University colleague, Kevin Bowen, and the Wake Forest University Band Program,” Locklair said of the piece that was written in 2000. “In one movement, the composition is based on a melody entitled, A Pilgrim’s Lot, from the early American shape-note hymnal, The Sacred Harp, 1860.”

Conducted by Jeff Whitsett, the concert will also feature Bowen as a guest conductor Bowen and a performance by the Winston-Salem Youth Chorus, directed by Barbara Beattie.

For tickets and information about the May 8 concert, call 336-722-9328 or visit http://www.piedmontwindsymphony.com/.

For more information about Locklair, including a bio, list of works, discography and much more, please visit http://www.locklair.com.

Dan Locklair’s PHOENIX for orchestra will be performed by the Winston-Salem Symphony (Robert Moody, Music Director) with special guests the Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Symphony (conducted by Matthew Troy) on Saturday, March 17, at 2 p.m. at Wait Chapel. This will be part of the Concert for Community, presented in celebration of the Symphony’s 65th anniversary.

Locklair is composer-in-residence and professor of music at Wake Forest.

This concert is free and open to the public. Although tickets are not required, if you would like to reserve a seat, please visit http://wssymphony.org/4community. You can also go to http://wssymphony.org/news/2012-concert-for-community/ for more event information. Continue reading »

Two movements of Dan Locklair’s Rubrics for solo organ were performed by John Scott on February 27 at Musashino Civic Cultural Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Other composers on the program include J.S. Bach.

Rubrics is a liturgical suite in five movements, inspired by the instructions (rubrics) in the Book of Common Prayer. The five movements are 1) “‘Hallelujah,’ has been restored…” 2) “Silence may be kept” 3) “…and thanksgivings may follow” 4) “The Peace may be exchanged” and 5) “The people respond – Amen!”

Locklair is composer-in-residence and professor of music at Wake Forest. For information about Locklair, including a bio, list of works, discography and more, visit http://www.locklair.com.

Dan Locklair’s Rubrics for solo organ was performed by David Ball on Wednesday, Jan. 25, in The Juilliard School’s Paul Hall in Manhattan, as part of the organ department’s annual recital. Locklair is the composer-in-residence and a professor of music at Wake Forest.

Rubrics is a liturgical suite in five movements, inspired by the instructions (rubrics) in the Book of Common Prayer. The five movements are 1) “‘Hallelujah,’ has been restored…” 2) “Silence may be kept” 3) “…and thanksgivings may follow” 4) The Peace may be exchanged” and 5) The people respond – Amen!” Continue reading »

WINTER (from the forgottens), a four-movement choral cycle for SATB, SSAA and TTBB choruses and piano written by Wake Forest composer-in-residence Dan Locklair, was premiered by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on Dec. 3 at Sanders Theater on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The piece was commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society (Andrew Clark, Conductor).

Locklair writes, “WINTER (from the forgottens) is based on poetry from four 19th century and early 20th century American poets whose work has been undeservedly forgotten. While the theme of the choral cycle is the season of Winter, hues of the December holiday spirit permeate each piece.” Other composers on the program include Brahms, Morales, Praetorius, Rachmaninov and more, and audience sing-alongs of traditional holiday carols. Continue reading »

On Friday, Nov. 18, Dan Locklair’s The Stars was performed by the Harvard Glee Club (Andrew Clark, Conductor) at Woolsey Hall of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Piano accompanist was Bernard Kreger. Locklair is the composer-in-residence and a professor of music at Wake Forest.

The performance was a preview of a movement from the composer’s Winter (from the forgottens), the complete version of which will be premiered in December. This was the annual concert together with the Yale Glee Club the night before the Harvard-Yale football game.

Locklair’s Pater Noster, motet for SSAATTBB chorus, a cappella, was aired on Nov. 13 on the nationally syndicated With Heart and Voice radio program as part of their Sacred American Music episode. You can listen to the archived broadcast at http://interactive.wxxi.org/whv.

Composer Dan Locklair’s “In Memory – H.H.L.” for string orchestra will be performed by the Fulton County Honors Orchestra, with guest conductor Dr. Mark A. Laycock, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. at Centennial High School in Roswell, Ga.

“In Memory – H.H.L.” was written in 2005 by Locklair, the composer-in-residence and professor of Music at Wake Forest. Maestro Kirk Trevor wrote this about the piece in 2006, “After the first read-through of ‘In Memory – H.H.L.’ I realized we had found a worthy successor to the Barber Adagio. Here was a gorgeously crafted Adagio for Strings that had a new voice, but with the same hauntingly lush harmonies and intensity that makes the string orchestra such a beautiful vehicle in the concert hall. After recording it, I was even more convinced that ‘In Memory H.H.L.’ has a real place in the standard string orchestra literature. As a conductor we are often looking for that five minute adagio to fit into our programming, and now we have a second option to the Barber from a wonderful living American composer.”

The work is part of Naxos’ Symphony of Seasons and other orchestral works CD (8.559337), performed by Maestro Trevor and the Slovak Radio Orchestra. More about the piece, including a sound sample, at http://www.locklair.com/wp/compositions/orchestra.

Other works on the program are Purcell/Britten Chacony in G Minor and David Diamond’s Rounds for String Orchestra.

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The choral and organ music of Dan Locklair, the composer-in-residence and a professor of Music at Wake Forest, was heard across the eastern United States recently:

On Nov. 5, A Winter Twilight (SSAA) was performed by the Radcliffe Choral Society (Andrew Clark, conductor) at the Sanders Theatre of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The piece is a preview of a movement from the composer’s Winter (from the forgottens), the complete version of which will be premiered in December. Others composers on the program include Monteverdi, Victoria, Barber, Dufay and Brahms.

Also on Nov. 5, renowned organist Marilyn Keiser performed Locklair’s Phoenix Processional and In Mystery and Wonder (The Casavant Diptych) as part of her recital at Verizon Hall of The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Pa. She has recorded both of these works as part of Loft’s The Music of Dan Locklair.

On Nov. 6, Locklair’s Remembrance was presented by the Cathedral Choir as part of the Choral Eucharist at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, Ga. Dale Adelmann is the Cathedral’s Canon for Music.

For information about Locklair, including a bio, list of works, discography and much more, visit http://www.locklair.com.

Dan Locklair’s Concerto for Organ and Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Schwarz with Susan Bates as organ soloist, is a part of a new 3-CD set released on Oct. 16 by The Eastern Music Festival and WCPE-FM in celebration of the 50th Anniversary Season of the Eastern Music Festival. Locklair is Wake Forest’s composer-in-residence and a professor of music.

Locklair’s solo organ work, In Mystery and Wonder (The Casavant Diptych) with Marilyn Keiser as organ soloist, was broadcast nationally the week of Oct. 3 over the syndicated radio program, Pipedreams. The program, #1140 entitled Manifold Blessings, is available on the web at: http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2011/1140/

In addition, Locklair’s Trumpets of Light for trumpet and organ was premiered by trumpeter Lorraine Cohen and organist Matthew Phelps on Oct. 23 at The Reformed Church of Bronxville in New York. It was part of a concert to dedicate the church’s new David Harris organ console. Continue reading »

Dan Locklair was Composer-in-Residence for the 2011 Carolina Chamber Music Festival in New Bern, N.C, on Sept. 11-17. His Dreamsteps (A Dance Suite for Flute, Viola and Harp) was performed on Sept. 17 by the New York City-based Larkspur Trio, and Dr. Locklair was featured in a pre-concert talk. Continue reading »