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COMPOSER...a unique voice in choral and instrumental music.
Jeffrey Cobb is an active conductor and a regularly commissioned composer. His pieces have won several awards including honors from the Ithaca Choir Composition Contest, the New York Virtuoso Singers Choral Composition Contest, the Measure for Measure Choral Competition Contest, the Vanguard Premieres Choral Composition Contest, the Summit Chorale’s Composition Contest, the Outside the Bachs International Choral Music Competition, the C7Prize, and the Composition Competition of the Chiayi City (Taiwan) International Band Festival. Jeffrey’s arrangements and... (more)
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The Lesson of the Lark (Narrator, Soloists, Chorus, Jazz Orchestra) This new multi-movement concert work, written to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of Women's Voting Rights, contains a powerful message calling for gender equity. The work takes inspiration from the language of Jazz - including elements of Swing, Blues, Bossa Nova, Gospel, Salsa, and improvisation. Available for narrator, soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, and SATB or SSA chorus; or, narrator, soprano, mezzo-soprano, and tenor soloists. |
Northwestern Michigan College's virtual performance of "The Lesson of the Lark." Featuring members of the NMC Grand Traverse Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Canticum Novum, as well as members of NMC's Music Faculty.
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Based of the book "The Lesson of the Lark" by Laura Knight Cobb. (A portion of the proceeds from the book go towards Equal Means Equal - a national organization campaigning for the final passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. )