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Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

October 18, 2005 - Tuesday to Note & To Listen

Boyer set to speak at October 29 workshop in Virginia

[Episcopal News Service] Dr. Horace Boyer, composer, arranger, and editor
of the 1993 revision of the hymnal "Lift Every Voice and Sing," is the
keynote speaker for the Southern Virginia chapter of the Leadership
Program for Musicians (LPM) alumni event and workshop October 29, 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Bon Air, Virginia.

LPM is a nationally recognized education program sponsored by the
Episcopal Church USA and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Boyer, professor emeritus of music theory and African-American music at
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is an acknowledged scholar
in the field of African-American gospel music. He has directed numerous
choirs, and has published many articles in scholarly journals.

The workshop day will include:

* A practical demonstration on the introduction and teaching of music
from the Afro-American tradition to congregations and choirs;

* An opportunity for participants to learn the "ins and outs" of
performing music from the Afro-American tradition;

* An opportunity for conversation with Boyer, Dr. Ray Glover, LPM board
chair, and other workshop attendants.

It will conclude with a Festival of Hymnody from the Afro-American
tradition.

Registration, which includes lunch, is $20. Current LPM students and
alumni will be guests for the event.

For registration and further information call Crystal J. Jonkman,
director of music at St. Michael's, at 804-272-0992 or email
cjonkman@stmichaelsbonair.org.

Note: The following CD is available from the Episcopal Book/Resource
Center, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY  10017; 800.334.7626;
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/

To listen: REVIVE US AGAIN: Featuring Gospel Favorites from Playing
Gospel Piano: The Basics by Carl MaultsBy and Rejoicensemble! (Church
Publishing, New York, New York, 2005, $18.)

>From the producers: These twelve gospel hymns promise to revive you as
Carl MaultsBy and his professional Rejoicensemble! capture the sincerity
of Fanny Crosby's "Near the Cross" and lead you to exuberant heights in
"We're Marching to Zion." Contemporary gospel aficionados will delight
in Edwin Hawkins's "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" and Mr. MaultsBy's own
"God is Love."

Originally intended as an accompanying CD of examples of the notated
arrangements in Playing Gospel Piano: The Basics by Carl MaultsBy,
Revive Us Again offers gospel music fans authentic renditions of many old
favorites for pleasurable listening. Recorded at St. Michael's Episcopal
Church in New York City by Mark Dann Recording.

Carl MaultsBy is the founder and executive artistic director of
Rejoicensemble!, a not-for-profit chamber vocal ensemble dedicated to
the performance, preservation, and development of African American sacred
music and to developing and showcasing the works of contemporary African
American composers. He holds degrees in Jazz/Commercial Composition,
Music, and Mathematics. He has conducted choirs for the Harry Belafonte
World Tours. He is active as a composer, arranger, clinician, and
conductor.

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