Sandra Snow, Chorus New Jersey All-State Chorus and Orchestra The Eighty-Eighth Annual Program THE NATIONAL ANTHEM Chorus, Orchestra and Audience Conducted by Patrick O’Keefe, President New Jersey Music Educators Association
Adam Glaser, Orchestra Conductor Launch........................................................... Glasser Hansel und Gretel: Prelude................. Humperdinck Capriccio Espagnol........................ Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestra PRESENTATION OF PINS TO THE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Marie Blistan, President New Jersey Education Association
As conductor, pedagogue, and scholar, Sandra Snow is widely acknowledged as one who brings singers of all ages and abilities to artful performance through an understanding of the music and its context in the world around them. As Professor of Choral Conducting and Music Education at the Michigan State University College of Music, the MSU Women’s Chamber Ensemble has appeared as featured performers at American Choral Directors Association conventions at state, regional, and national levels. As guest conductor, she travels extensively in North America and abroad. In 2017 Snow created "mirabai," a project-based professional women’s chorus. "Mirabai features alumna associated with the MSU Women’s Chamber Ensemble. mirabai" was a featured ensemble at the Texas Choral Director’s Association conference in 2018. The inaugural recording, "Ecstatic Songs," was released in 2018. Snow is author of the DVD “Conducting-Teaching: Real World Strategies for Success” published by GIA (2009), a resource for conductor-teachers at all levels of teaching. She edits the choral music series "In High Voice" published by Boosey & Hawkes. Snow is the Artistic Director of the American Institute for Choral Teacher Education produced annually at MSU. She is a recipient of the Michigan State University "William J. Beal Award for Outstanding Faculty," the MSU "Teacher-Scholar Award," and the "Dortha J. and John D. Withrow Award" for Excellence in Teaching.
Sandra Snow, Chorus Conductor Ubi Caritas.................................................. Ola Giello Awake the harp (from Creation)........................Haydn Adoramus te, Christe....................................... di Lasso Lass Dich Nur Nichts Nicht Dauren................Brahms O meu maracatu..........................................arr. Afonso My God is a rock.......................................... arr. Gibbs Two treble trios/SATB divisi Chorus
Combined Orchestra & Chorus I am in need of Music....................David L. Brunner
Friday, November 9, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Atlantic City Adrian Phillips Ballroom Boardwalk Hall and Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. NJPAC Prudential Hall Newark, NJ
Adam Glaser, Orchestra Adam Glaser is one of the most engaging and versatile conductors on the music scene today, equally at home in the core symphonic and operatic repertoire as well as contemporary and pops. His most recent appointments include two newly-created positions: Principal Conductor of the NYU Orchestras, and an expanded role as Music Director of the professional-caliber Juilliard Pre-College Orchestras, which he has conducted in over 50 concerts at New York’s Lincoln Center. As the Director of Orchestras at Long Island’s Hofstra University, Adam conducts the Hofstra Symphony Orchestra and Hofstra Chamber Orchestra, and teaches graduate-level seminars in score analysis. In the summer, he conducts the Interlochen Philharmonic at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, and serves as Artistic Advisor for Long Island’s Usdan Center for the Arts. Commissions include Launch, a concert piece for orchestra and chorus commissioned and premiered by the Lake Forest (IL) High School Orchestra and Chorus, and an arrangement of Hatikvah for string orchestra and children’s chorus, commissioned and premiered by the Usdan Center for the Arts to commemorate Israel’s 60th anniversary. A lifelong jazz pianist and songwriter, he is a founding member of Phil Orch Jazz, the renowned group comprised of members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Performing together since 1999, the band has appeared at such venues as Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live and the Kimmel Center’s Commonwealth Stage, the Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center in New York, and the Bravo! Vail Music Festival in Colorado. A former marketing executive and consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Glaser maintains a keen interest in commercial music, audio branding and the use of music and sound throughout the business world. He is the founder of Glaser Music, Inc. (GMI), which specializes in the creation of original music for film, television, advertising, corporate/retail and new media.
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