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IOCSF ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE 75th ANNIVERSARY COMPOSER COMPETITIONThe International Orange Chorale of San Francisco is pleased to announce the winners of our Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary Composer Competition, a competition for new a cappella choral works that set texts related to the Golden Gate Bridge and its surroundings. First prize is awarded to Dominick DiOrio for Chrysopylae, and second prize is awarded to Julian Mörth for Hymn of Victory. DiOrio's Chrysopylae will be premiered by IOCSF on May 27, 2012 as part of the large public Waterfront Celebration at Crissy Field in San Francisco to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, hosted by The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. Additionally, IOCSF will feature Chrysopylae as part of its regularly programmed concerts on June 22nd and 23rd, 2012. Both DiOrio and Mörth will receive a cash prize. Mr. DiOrio, Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Music at Lone Star College-Montgomery, said, "I am so delighted to be the winner of IOCSF's competition. I first heard the International Orange Chorale of San Francisco during the Chorus America National Conference last June and was blown away by their fine ensemble singing and dedication to contemporary repertoire. I wrote Chrysopylae with their distinct sound in mind, and I can't wait to hear them bring my music to life as part of the Golden Gate Bridge celebrations in San Francisco." The title of DiOrio's Chrysopylae comes from the journal of John C. Frémont. In 1846, Frémont wrote in reference to the strait now called the Golden Gate: "To this Gate I gave the name of 'Chrysopylae', or 'Golden Gate'; for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn." DiOrio does not set these words in his work, but instead weaves together four different texts about the Golden Gate Bridge: an excerpt from the poem "Gold!" by British poet Thomas Hood; two excerpts from poems by Joseph Baermann Strauss, the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge; and the Latin phrase, "Lux ecce surgit aurea" ["Behold the light of gold rises"] by Prudentius. Mörth's Hymn of Victory also utilizes the poetry of Joseph Baermann Strauss, setting his poem "The Golden Gate Bridge". |
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