A year ago, an enthusiastic group of ORS Youth Choir singers with @msp.orsyc headed to Spokane for the #NWACDA conference to share and present “Think choral, shop local” with our Composer-in-Residence @composerstacey to share about commissioning local and to promote her “Gathering Rounds” book recently published. What a highlight of 2024!
To get your hands on a copy of @composerstacey “Gathering Rounds” book, visit . It’s a great tool for beginning to intermediate skill levels and an even better addition your musical classroom for choral warm-ups, sight-reading, or just for fun! And keep your eyes out for a new edition this year targeted towards elementary!
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@mspeterpat ⬆️ and @composerstacey ⬆️ will be featured on @fox12oregon Good Day Oregon at 8am today! They talk about @orsyouthchoir , Composer-In-Residence program, and the @orsingers upcoming “Homegrown: Think Choral, Shop Local” concert at @reserartscenter .
Grab your coffee and tune in!
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Photo dump from some of the FUN we’ve had rehearsing for concerts celebrating the creative, weird, beautiful place where we all live and make music. Let’s keep all the good energy going!
PDX GET YOUR TICKETS! (link in bio)
Come early or stay late to shop at the local makers market in the lobby!
See you in the audience this weekend!
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Homegrown
Oregon Repertory Singers and
Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir
Performing music of beauty, mystery, love, hope, & joy
By Portland composers Stacey Philipps, Joan Szymko, Sydney Guillaume, & Naomi LaViolette
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Rehearsing for the upcoming “Homegrown” weekend and loved having the awesome composer in the room with us! Thanks for capturing some joy in learning, @composerstacey
Summertime heat wave >>> perfect time to write wintry music! Ho ho ho-ing and feeling cooler just thinking about it (also have all the fans running).
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You should be singing Gathering Rounds!
They’re fun — harmonize, blend, breathe!
They’re good for you — learn and practice 🎶 skills!
They’re new —sight-sing, warm up, premiere, enjoy!
Get your book at the link in bio!
Volume discounts available!
Free delivery every Wednesday to Portland-Metro!
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A seriously fierce group of sight-singers gave my new book of Gathering Rounds a proper celebration and introduction to the world at our book launch party last night. Thanks, y’all! So thrilled to hear these songs in voices! ❤️🎶
Loved having some of the local poets and writers who contributed lyrics for several of the rounds join in the fun. Here’s a snippet of “Lean, Learn” with beautiful lyrics by the amazing Mimi Sei!
Extra special thanks to the wonderful Aubrey Patterson for championing my music and inspiring this work! Can’t wait to hear all these rounds and canons running through your choirs! @orsyouthchoir 🥂 🎉
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She’s done it again! Congratulations to our Composer-in-Residence Stacey Philipps @composerstacey on the launch of “Gathering Rounds Volume 2” made in collaboration with all women poets and our very own ORS Youth Choir Artistic Director Aubrey Patterson @msp.orsyc .
“My second book of 52 original rounds and canons for choirs (Great for many middle school singers and most high school singers, as well as beginning collegiate and community choirs) is hot off the presses! Sing a song every week of the academic or performance year. All set to poetry and prose by women – this new book adds a layer of pedagogy with the gradual introduction of many building blocks of music literacy leading to great sight-reading and better singing. Practice, perfect, and perform easy to more complex music every month and throughout the year, and learn a systematic method of teaching sight-singing from my inspiring colleague and book contributor, Aubrey Patterson, Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir Artistic Director.” - Stacey Philipps
Please support this impressive collaboration and invaluable educational tool. Learn more /
Not going to stop talking about this book now, so I suggest you get one (or 6 or 30 😁). 52 rounds, sight-singing pro tips and foreword by the amazing Aubrey Patterson, and more! ❤️🎶
If you’re in PDX, DM me for book launch party details!! 🥂 🎉
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