Our latest Choir Fam Podcast episode features returning guests Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy Takach, both of whom are composers and entrepreneurs in publishing. They discuss how the choral landscape has changed in the years since they founded Graphite Publishing and how their compositional voices have adapted to societal changes. They also talk about their latest collaborative choral/orchestral work, Rose Ever Blooming, and how they’ve merged familiar melodies with new poetry for an innovative work that can still provide nostalgia. Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts!
“There’s still so much we can say through choral music, and a good portion of the music that gets put on the concert stage revolves around similar themes that are timeless, that humans are always wrestling with. At the same time, life moves on, and I think choral music in the last couple years has been a really important response to where we are as a society. An artist’s impetus is to respond to events, feelings, and all those sorts of things that get our heart racing.” - Timothy Takach #choirfam #podcast #choir #choral #chorus
New works from Shara Nova and Joshua Shank!
From Nova:
"Spring Hymns" - a piece for children that develops breath, independence, and listening skills while exploring our place within the natural world. Several individual movements also available!
From Shank:
"Nacht und Träume" - explore refined dynamic control and evoke the gentle unfolding of night and dreams;
"Undelivered" - a compelling setting of John F. Kennedy’s undelivered final speech.
These and more, highlighted in our most recent newsletter. Never miss a beat - sign up at link in bio!
Not fixed. Not finished. Always becoming.
That’s the thread running through 20 years of Graphite Publishing. An openness to change, to growth, and to finding the right people at the right time.
Watch the full interview on Youtube to hear how that mindset shaped everything: 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭: 𝟐𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞!
As we celebrate and reflect on our 20th anniversary, we share these time-tested, beloved pieces from Graphite's catalog 🥳
Your next program is waiting for you at graphitepublishing.com!
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Small biz week is coming to an end, but the celebration of our composers always continues!
Start your support today by checking out their music on graphitepublishing.com!
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Searching just got easier 👀
Find exactly what you need faster with filters for voicing, difficulty, accompaniment, language, and more!
graphitepublishing.com > Shop for Music > Scroll down to “Browse Music” > Select the filters you need!
While you’re shopping, check out Emily Drum’s new SSA choir, body percussion and piano piece “Let My Voice Be Heard”! Performance featured above by Alabama Treble Middle School Allstate Choir; Jess Edelbrock, conductor.
Warning: this one will get stuck in your head 🎶
🎙️Sing along to the full recording of Paul John Rudoi’s “Gamaya” by visiting our website now
🎥Watch the full 20th Anniversary Interview on YouTube: 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭: 𝟐𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞!
Kantorei, conducted by Adam Reinwald, has released an album of Gerald Cohen’s choral music, 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙎𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙨!
The album, a culmination of his collaboration with Kantorei as their 2024-25 composer-in-residence, is a selection of some of his favorite works that he has composed over the past 15 years, and is the first of his albums devoted to choral music. Cohen is also featured as a soloist on the album, along with Hazzan Joanna Dulkin.
Reinwald and Cohen will be having a 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄, 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟱𝘁𝗵 @ 𝟴 𝗽𝗺 𝗘𝗧 / 𝟳𝗽𝗺 𝗖𝗧! Sign up here: /track/click?u=789d9802897eca92b3c09f13b&id=ca7e4afdd2&e=a5b53a526f
🎶 Stream the album wherever you stream your music!
Spotlight on Elizabeth Alexander / Seafarer Press and Martha Hill Duncan, with pieces (art songs and choral) that uncover the profound in the ordinary.
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It’s easy to say “of course it’ll last.”
It’s another thing to build something that actually does.
20 years of Graphite didn’t happen by accident. Hear how it all unfolded in the full conversation now on YouTube: 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭: 𝟐𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞!
Pieces inspired by dragons, phoenixes, fire, flight, and the unvanquishable human spirit. Forward Through Fire! (psst - sign up for Graphite's newsletter at link in bio!)
Thank you, Joseph, for the incredible review on our newest edition of 𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦 Magazine!
"I read it cover to cover and had the strangest and most unanticipated experience of feeling more connected, somehow, not just to each of you but also to other Graphite composers I know -- despite not having seen many of you in a relatively long time. It was kind of like a gust of wind in my sails.
Maybe it speaks to how lonesome it sometimes feels to live the life of a composer, maybe it speaks to the power of paper and ink over the evanescence of social/digital media, but more likely it's also that the magazine was so thoughtfully and tastefully written, laid out, and edited.
Thank you for everything -- the interview, the rep lists and features, but also the crossword, which I happily completed in an armchair with one of our cats resting like a sphinx on the armrest beside me.”
- Joseph Gregorio, composer / conductor
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