A New Creation-Clausen Questions

Date: July 28, 2010

I am calling on your collective wisdom. I am exploring doing Rene Clausen's A New Creation with combined high school choirs and orchestra. I have not been able to find much detailed information on the web so far, any help with the below questions would be appreciated.

1. What exactly is the instrumentation? Is there a chamber and/or full orchestration?

2. I know the piece is around 50 minutes. Has anyone with a high school group done it before? How did the experience go?

3. The concern for my group is the amount of divisi for men. How much and how challenging would you say the men's parts are?

I am waiting for my score to come in, but I would appreciate your thoughts.

Adam Beeken

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Rick Bartlett on July 28, 2010 12:46

Adam,

Have you thought about contacting the composer? I believe he is a subscriber here on choralnet and could probably be contacted through his website. There are posts on youtube of the performance of this work as well, with chamber orchestra, organ and about 30 voices.

Good luck

Rick

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