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The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish
for 2 sopranos and alto

Flight of the Earls
concerto for uilleann pipes (excerpt):


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NEWS:

--> Among the Signs, a 2003 setting of Koran verses in English, will be premiered in May in NYC as part of Say Yes, an interfaith choral celebration for singers who act. More details soon.

--> Robin's article on rhythm in pibroch will be published by Ashgate as part of a scholarly anthology

--> A new commission has come from Greek baritone Nektarios Antoniou and his Boston-based choir Schola Cantorum for Byzantine Music

--> Robin's 'paperless' congregational worship songs, designed to be taught and sung without written music, appear in Music by Heart, a new Episcopal hymnal

--> Gone Today is being used in a presentation by composer and conductor Bruce Polay titled "Contemporary Music Forum" at the Lynn University Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton, Florida

--> Gone Today was read by the
Forth Worth Symphony, conducted by Danaila Hristova and Miguel Harth-Bedoya (FWS director), on February 17, 2008

--> Alleluia will be sung at the Vatican
on June 29, 2008,
by the Lirico Chamber Singers

-->Coraldan, a commission from the Baroque trio Flying Forms, was premiered by them February 10, 2008 at Stony Brook University

--> An article about the El Salto project appears in New and Borrowed Rites, the winter 2008 issue of Liturgy magazine

-->Prodigal Songs was premiered by
Trio Eos on November 3, 2007 at the Museum of Biblical Art

--> Robin's concerto for uilleann pipes based on the historic Flight of the Earls, commissioned by the Albany Symphony and premiered on September 27, was received with standing ovations

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"Mahogany music..."

- Gabriela Frank, composer

"Take McClellan's music as a reminder and a gentle
admonition that no matter how ancient the music,
the door to reinterpretation is never shut. McClellan
pulls new life from centuries-old choral styles, drawing
on their native spiritual power and recasting them in
the haunting arrangements of the new avant-garde."

- Editor, Download.com

"[Flight of the Earls was]...a hit with the crowd..."

- Geraldine Freedman, Daily Gazette (Schenectady NY)

"...a vivid sense of atmosphere and
narrative force...the audience loved it."

- Michael Miller, Berkshire Review