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Theron Kirk....October 20 2008 at 11:04 AM

Baritono (Login Baritono)

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Just a vent after practicing this morning.....

Theron Kirk....Anyone every heard of this guy?

I'm singing some of his music in a program - and it's making me want to kill myself.

I LOVE modern and 20th c. music - but only if it's actually well written. Sorry about the rant, but as a singer I'm just so tired ofcomposers who write vocal music and have zero concept of the human voice. I also hate a Gb ang G# in the same measureagainst some manner of A cluster in the piano etc... Again, atonal music is great, but when it's just strange for the sake ofstrange and doesn't seem to go anywhere, have any line, and just seems to go against the piano, in general.

Bah, I say!!!!

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some info: October 20 2008, 1:19 PM

http://www.accd.edu/SAC/pr/Update/Volum6/Feb11,00.pdf

"significant and lasting contributions tothe cause of Music in America" and the Minnie Stevens PiperProfessor Award forteaching excellence in 1975.

http://www.ensemble.org/tcda/txsings/archive/v16-1.htm#anchor886017

In Memoriam Theron Kirk1919 -- 1999

One of TCDA's finest educators/composers died recently. Theron Kirk was born in 1919 and died October1999. Theron retired from San Antonio College as Chairman of the Music Deptartment and Director of ChoralOrganizations. After retirement, he became active as a docent at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Hiseducation includes study at Baylor University, Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and theEastman School of Music.

He is the composer of more than 1,000 published works for chorus, chamber groups, symphony orchestra,vocal solo, organ, carillon, and a one-act opera. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Chamber Orchestra andthe orchestras of Winnipeg Canada, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Memphis, Detroit, San Antonio and Houston haveperformed his symphonic works.

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performed his symphonic works.

Theron Kirk has held the national office of president of the American Choral Directors Association. He hastaught as a visiting lecturer in the summer program at the University of Southern California, the University ofIllinois, Central Missouri State University College and at the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, inthe University of Michigan Music Division. Survivors are his wife Carla, three sons Padriac, Kevin, and Sean,two daughters, Laura Reimers and Meaghan Welch, and seven grandchildren. If you so desire, the family hasasked that memorials be sent to the Docent Program at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

We have all been greatly influenced and blessed by the many compositions of TCDA's own beloved TheronKirk. His impact and service will be greatly missed.

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thanks October 20 2008, 5:12 PM

Thanks for the info... I'm still not a fan of his music, at least the bit that I've been working on....maybe hisother stuff is a little more skillfully composed.

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