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Theron Kirk....
October 20 2008 at 11:04 AM
Bari tono (Logi n Bari tono)
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Just a vent after practicing this morning.....
Theron Kirk....Anyone every heard of this guy?
I'm singing some of his music in a program - and it's making me want to kill myself.
I LOVE modern and 20th c. music - but only if it's actually well written. Sorry about the rant, but as a singer I'm just so tired of
composers who write vocal music and have zero concept of the human voice. I also hate a Gb ang G# in the same measure
against some manner of A cluster in the piano etc... Again, atonal music is great, but when it's just strange for the sake of
strange and doesn't seem to go anywhere, have any line, and just seems to go against the piano, in general.
Bah, I say!!!!

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BeCat
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some info:
October 20 2008, 1:19 PM
http://www.accd.edu/SAC/pr/Update/Volum6/Feb11,00.pdf
"significant and lasting contributions tothe cause of Music in America" and the Minnie Stevens Piper
Professor Award forteaching excellence in 1975.
http://www.ensemble.org/tcda/txsings/archive/v16-1.htm#anchor886017
In Memoriam Theron Kirk
1919 -- 1999
One of TCDA's finest educators/composers died recently. Theron Kirk was born in 1919 and died October
1999. Theron retired from San Antonio College as Chairman of the Music Deptartment and Director of Choral
Organizations. After retirement, he became active as a docent at the San Antonio Museum of Art. His
education includes study at Baylor University, Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and the
Eastman School of Music.
He is the composer of more than 1,000 published works for chorus, chamber groups, symphony orchestra,
vocal solo, organ, carillon, and a one-act opera. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Chamber Orchestra and
the orchestras of Winnipeg Canada, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Memphis, Detroit, San Antonio and Houston have
performed his symphonic works.
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performed his symphonic works.
Theron Kirk has held the national office of president of the American Choral Directors Association. He has
taught as a visiting lecturer in the summer program at the University of Southern California, the University of
Illinois, Central Missouri State University College and at the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, in
the University of Michigan Music Division. Survivors are his wife Carla, three sons Padriac, Kevin, and Sean,
two daughters, Laura Reimers and Meaghan Welch, and seven grandchildren. If you so desire, the family has
asked that memorials be sent to the Docent Program at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
We have all been greatly influenced and blessed by the many compositions of TCDA's own beloved Theron
Kirk. His impact and service will be greatly missed.

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Baritono
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thanks
October 20 2008, 5:12 PM
Thanks for the info... I'm still not a fan of his music, at least the bit that I've been working on....maybe his
other stuff is a little more skillfully composed.

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