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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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About Robin McClellan

NEWS:

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

--> Noorun, Robin's arrangement of a 13th c. Armenian piece with a 12th c. Arabic text, will be performed in Haifa, Israel, summer 2008

--> Robin was chosen as the first composer in residence for ActorCor. As part of ActorCor's May 2008 debut, Among the Signs, Robin's setting of Qur'an verses in English, was premiered in NYC

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

-->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