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If It Was Your Son to receive
premiere from The Singers
Paul's latest choral work, titled If It Was Your Son, will receive its world premier from The Singers: Minnesota Choral Artists on their October Journey Home concerts focusing on issues of immigration. The work draws on the words of 16-year-old Syrian journalist Mohammed Najem, which draw attention to how easily those who are living in privilege can turn a blind eye to atrocities befalling children that they would move the world to prevent happening to their own.
The concerts will take place on Saturday, October 19th at 7:30 PM at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul and Sunday, October 20th at 3:00 PM at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, MN.
If It Was Your Son to receive
premiere from The Singers
A Holy Night wins the 2022
Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition Prize
Paul's latest choral offering, A Holy Night, has won the 2022 Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition Prize at North Dakota State University. The piece, which draws its text from Unitarian Universalist author and educator Sophia Lyon-Fahs, celebrates birth and parenthood and honors the divinity of all children.
A Holy Night will receive its world premiere from the NDSU Concert Choir on their spring tour in March of 2023, under the director of Dr. Jo Ann Miller.
For more information on A Holy Night and to purchase copies, click here.
