Music by Dan Locklair and Meira Warshauer Featured in South Carolina
Symphonic Chorale Concert on May 16

Dan Locklair's "A DuBose Heyward Triptych" and 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.

This concert will present sacred and secular choral music of four of the
Carolina's finest composers, including Mr. 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/.

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.

Dan Locklair's "A DuBose Heyward Triptych", for SATB chorus, a cappella,
was the result of a commission from the Carolina Chamber Chorale, Timothy
Koch Music Director and Conductor.  In three movements, the three poems,
"Silences", "Landbound" and "Dusk", all pay tribute to Mr. Heyward's
beloved city of Charleston.  The poems first appeared in a 1922 book
titled Carolina Chansons (Legends of the Low Country) by DuBose Heyward
and Hervey Allen.

Internationally recognized American composer Dan Locklair is
Composer-in-Residence at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.
His compositional output, influenced by a wide variety of traditions,
ranging from Medieval to modern music, includes symphonic works, a ballet,
an opera, and numerous solo, chamber, vocal, organ and choral compositions.
His music has been performed throughout Europe and North America by many
major orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles and soloists.  Several
of these works have received major awards, including the 1989 Barlow
International Competition Award for "changing perceptions & Epitaph"
and the 1996 American Guild of Organists Composer of the Year Award.
Among his other honors are consecutive ASCAP Awards since 1981 and a
Kennedy Center Friedheim Award. Read his latest Rubric Newsletter at
http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/march04/DL_nws_030104.htm.  For more
information about Dan Locklair, including a bio, list of works, discography
and much more, please visit http://www.locklair.com.

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 Dan Locklair or Meira Warshauer, please
contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or
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