Current Season
Americana
Sunday, May 21, 2023
HARVEY BROWNE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
311 BROWNS LANE
3:00 PM | $25 | 70 MIN
GUEST CONDUCTOR: JOHN H. DICKSON
This afternoon we will explore some of America’s musical heritage across its landscape, its history and its diversity. We will consider three landscapes: The Landscape of Freedom, the Landscape of Opportunity and the Landscape of Faith. Familiar American composers and works, like Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings will accompany newer ones, along with folk hymns and spirituals such as The Battle of Jericho, Come Thou Fount and Unclouded Day in wonderful arrangements by Moses Hogan, Mack Wilberg and Shawn Kirchner to round out this picture of America.
VIDEO LECTURE
Presented by John Hale:
JOHN H. DICKSON is Professor Emeritus and former Director of Choral Studies at Louisiana State University. Recently retired after forty-four years of collegiate teaching, he continues his conducting through workshops, festivals, and as the founding artistic director of Coro Vocati, one of Atlanta’s most accomplished professional chamber choirs.
As a conducting pedagogue, he has presented masterclasses before the Association of British Choral Directors, the American Choral Directors Association, the Royal Northern Music Conservatory (Manchester), and the Russian State Music Conservatories of St. Petersburg and Moscow. He has conducted festivals and workshops in England, Wales, Scotland, Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the U. S. For three decades his choirs have been featured at conventions of the ACDA, ABCD, Texas Music Educators Association, and the National Collegiate Choral Organization.
Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Dr. Dickson sang with Sir David Willcocks and The Bach Choir; a second post-doctoral fellowship allowed him to serve as David Hill’s assistant conductor. He is the Founding Director of the Oxbridge C. S. Lewis Choral Institute.