Donna Wickham

Jazz Vocalist Composer Educator

“With Fresh Ears…”: Music of the 20th and 21st centuries

| May 16, 2010

St. Martin’s concludes its season with a dynamic concert of works from the 20th and 21st centuries.  The program will include the world premiere of Robert Baksa’s Mass, as well as Zoltán Kodály’s Jesus and the Traders, Son of God by Philip Cannon, Three Motets by Edmund Rubbra,and Bar xizam,by the rising Minnesota composer Abbie Betinis.

Fri. June 11, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Sun. June 13, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Denver
First Congregational Church, Boulder

Moving forward

| May 14, 2010

The third piece in the Anna Akhmatova set is finished.  The poems cover very wide emotional ground, and setting them has been a very heavy journey.  As summer approaches, I am turning my thoughts towards recording.  If all goes well, the Akhmatova set and the title track will be in the can by the end of summer.  Maybe more?