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ACH News
April 26, 2022
Gluck’s BOSWELL receives a moving mass performance at the Valparaiso University Chapel — the largest collegiate chapel in the US — as an audience of hundreds joins in with the Elm Ensemble at In Deepest Night: A Festival of Psalms, the David G. Truemper Memorial Concert (Valparaiso, Indiana).
April 2022
Compiler/Author Peter Mercer-Taylor furthers the conversation in an a new article on six hymns drawn from the ACH repertoire: “‘To that our longing souls aspire’: Classical Music and the Afterlife in Nineteenth-Century US Hymnody,” The Hymn: A Journal of Congregational Song 73/2 (Spring 2022), 36-46.
December 2, 2021
Gems of Exquisite Beauty: How Hymnody Carried Classical Music to America is named an “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice.
May 24, 2021
“Listen as Cantus sings rare, early-American hymns”
Online story from Classical MPR about a set of three ACH recordings (developed under the auspices of Minnesota Public Radio) by Cantus, a premier Minneapolis/St. Paul-based men’s vocal ensemble.
May 24, 2021
“Listen as Border CrosSing sings rare, early-American hymns”
Online story from Classical MPR about a set of three ACH recordings (developed under the auspices of Minnesota Public Radio) by Border CrosSing, an adventurous Minneapolis/St. Paul-based choir founded in 2017 that’s rapidly gaining a place among Minnesota’s most celebrated choral ensembles.
March 19, 2021
“Listen as Lumina sings rare, early-American hymns”
Online feature story from Classical MPR about a set of three ACH recordings (developed under the auspices of Minnesota Public Radio) by Lumina, a premier Minneapolis/St. Paul-based women’s ensemble.
December 18, 2020
“Gems of Exquisite Beauty: Classical Music and American Hymns”
Josh Messner, Managing Director of the Elm Ensemble, interviews ACH creator Peter Mercer-Taylor for this blog post on the ensemble’s website (the Elm Ensemble’s contributions to the ACH Choral Showcase have been outstanding and numerous).
December 11, 2020
“Nineteenth-century US hymnody’s fascination with classical music”
ACH creator Peter Mercer-Taylor’s contribution to Oxford University Press’s OUPblog, focusing on an unlikely Mozart aria’s transformation into the Christmas hymn that appears in the ACH Anthology as AURORA.
November 28, 2020
Video of Members of the Choir of St. Martin’s Ev. Lutheran Church recording Mozart’s AURORA for the ACH Choral Showcase is released on Classical MPR’s “Choral Stream.”
October 21, 2020
Video of the Mosaic United Methodist Church Choir recording Weber’s LOVE DIVINE for the ACH Choral Showcase is released on Classical MPR’s “Choral Stream,” reaching the Stream’s “Most Popular” video slot on October 25. It receives over 10,000 views in its first week.
October 20, 2020
“American Classical Hymns project seeks choirs to revive ‘lost’ pre-1864 music”
Online feature story on Classical MPR (a branch of Minnesota Public Radio)
February 11, 2020
“Early-American hymns live again thanks to University of Minnesota professor”
Online feature story on Classical MPR (a branch of Minnesota Public Radio)
