Weekly Roundup (July 1-7, 2023)

Sharing a new choral work, articles, interviews, and reviews

Music

The most delightful bit of news this week is that a video has gone up of a fine performance—by Peter Carter and some of his singers—of a Christmas carol, “Mary’s Baby,” that I composed last winter and dedicated to him and his choir in Allentown NJ. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to listen to it. The poem by Shaemus O’Sheel (1886–1954) moved me a …