Winter 17-18 Concert Choir Program Notes

Please write your program notes below. Choose a piece in the concert, and you may focus on
the history of the piece, a biography of the composer, the theory/musical content of the piece,
information about the text/poem/poet, or any other relevant information. Program notes should
be approximately 100 words (80-120).

Everyone must complete TWO program notes. You may write up additional program notes for
extra credit.

Frank Ticheli
Frank Ticheli is an American composer born January 21, 1958. He has a Masters and a
Doctorate in Composition from the University of Michigan. Some of his works include
“The Song Within”, “There Will Be Rest”, “Earth Song”, and much more. Over Ticheli’s
lifetime he has received many awards for his musical compositions. He acquired the
Arts and Letters Award, Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, and the Charles Ives
Scholarship. Ticheli also got the National Band Association Memorial Prize, the A.
Austin Harding Award, the First Prize in the Texas Sesquicentennial Orchestral
Composition Competition, and more. He now resides in California, teaching at the
University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music.

Bob Chilcott
Bob Chilcott is a famous composer born April 9, 1955. Chilcott started his life of music
at a young age where he sang for a choir. He later moved on to become a tenor in the
choir of King’s College, Cambridge. He pursued singing and composing, and ended up
creating a multitude of works that have found success in choirs around the world. Some
of these works are “The Making of The Drum”, “The Seeds of Stars”, “Man I Sing”,and
many more great pieces. He continues to arrange songs to this day.