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Composer Mary McAuliffe has been awarded a number of commissions in the USA recently. Among these are a choral work for solo soprano, SATB and children’s choruses, trumpet, timpani and organ commissioned by the Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church of Emory University, Atlanta, and leading US choral conductor, Steven Darsey, for performance in Atlanta next December. A setting of Aililiú na Gamhna for soprano, SATB choir and instruments has been commissioned by the Department of Music of Southeast Missouri State University at Cape Girardeau for performance by the university chorus and their conductor, John Egbert, in autumn 2003.
Mary McAuliffe is developing an increasing profile as a choral composer in the USA and now travels there for extended periods each year. Her large-scale choral and orchestral work, Return to Old Ireland, together with Leaving: A Famine Victim's Cry of Desolation, receives a performance in Columbia, Maryland, by the Columbia Pro Cantare, soloists, instrumental ensemble and conductor Frances Dawson on 3 May. In Decatur, Georgia, Irish Blessings will be performed by the Decatur Civic Chorus and soloists under their conductor, Mary Anne Sharp, on 18 May. Further US performances of her music will take place later in the year and The Wave for female choir and piano, commissioned by the Board of Education of Fulton County, Atlanta, in 2000, has recently been published by the prestigious Hal Leonard Corporation.
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