Materials for Review
PERFORMANCE RECORDINGS
The recordings below feature:
Virginia Tech Chamber Singers
29 undergraduate singers
approx. 40% music majors (B.A. in Music: voice/piano performance, music education, and music technology)
Virginia Tech Concert Choir
75 undergraduate singers, mostly non-music majors
Blacksburg Master Chorale
75 community singers from 20 to 80+ years of age
Virginia Tech Philharmonic
60 undergraduate musicians (mostly non-music majors) augmented by community musicians and hired professionals depending on instrumentation needs.
Mosaic for Earth, composed and conducted by Dwight Bigler
April 3, 2022, Moss Arts Center
full score: click here
piano vocal score: click here
concert program book: click here
website: www.mosaicforearth.org
Reviews of Mosaic for Earth
(From letters solicited by VT administrators and shared with me by the authors)
Nathan Leaf, Director of Choral Activities, North Carolina State University
Steven White, Artistic Director, Opera Roanoke
Danielle Talamantes, Metropolitan Opera Soprano
Letter and supporting materials from Dr. Annie Pearce re: VT BioBuild / Mosaic for Earth interdisciplinary collaboration
Letter by Dr. Annie Pearce
Documentation of BioBuild / Mosaic for Earth collaboration
VT Chamber Singers
Dwight Bigler, conductor
Orff, Carmina burana
Dwight Bigler, Conductor
May 2018
Three Appalachian Songs, arranged and conducted by Dwight Bigler. Carnegie Hall, 2017.
Three Appalachian Songs (arr. Bigler). VT Choirs and Wind Ensemble. 2017.
