If you have followed this blog for a while, you know that Caroline and I play in the Georgia Wind Symphony. We are debuting a new composition written by Jay Bocook at our GMEA concert in Athens on Friday, January 27th. We were fortunate to rehearse his new work with him conducting at our rehearsal last Sunday. It was an honor for us to be able to watch him as he heard something that was conceived in his mind, reviewed on his computer, but never performed live before Sunday. Jay based the composition on an old gospel spiritual which was made well-know when it was included in the movie, "O Brother, Where art thou?". Alison Kraus recorded "Down in the River to Pray" for the movie, but we would love for you to hear Jay's adaptation.
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