The Voice of Chorus America
Volume 23, Number 3
Spring, 2000

Premieres, Page 24: To celebrate its tenth anniversary season, the Michael O'Neal Singers commissioned Irish composer Mary McAuliffe, who wrote Return to Old Ireland for performance on St. Patrick's Day 2000.  The work is based on Walt Whitman's Poem Old Ireland and explores the imagery of the dying Ireland in the time of the Great Famine of 1849 - 1850 and its rebirth in the New World.
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Recordings, Page 26: Two new releases are available from the Michael O'Neal Singers:  Highlights from The Creation, including all the choruses from the work and selected solos, and Songs of the South, comprising spirituals, Stephen Foster melodies and a gospel finale.
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Gifts and Grants Received, Page 27: The Michael O'Neal Singers is the recipient of a gift from the Francis L. Abreu Charitable Trust. The funds will be used to develop and support the current programs of the organization.
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Winning Web Site for Michael O'Neal Singers, Page 27: The Michael O'Neal Singers' web site:  www.mosingers.com
has earned over 120 rated awards in it first three months online.  Reviewers praised the site for excellent design, content, navigation, originality, graphics, creativity, professionalism, download speed, and use of technology and special effects. The site was designed by Mary Thompson, one of BellSouth's top web designers and a member of the Roswell UMC Choir, O'Neal also directs. Adding graphics to the site was MOS member Jeff Dimond.  The final touch of developing the audio capabilities of the site came from Eric Stephens, another MOS member.
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Members' Concerts, Page 18:
Michael O'Neal Singers
Roswell, GA; 770-594-7974
Dr. Michael O'Neal, music/artistic director
3/17: "Recollection: A St Patrick's Day Celebration": Mary McAuliffe, Return to Old Ireland (premiere); Celtic and Gaelic sacred music and folk melodies
5/12: "Retrospective: America Sings": music of the 20th century: Christiansen, Copland, Barber, Gershwin, Bernstein
5/21: Schubert, Mass in G
5/28: Schubert, Mass in G (Carnegie Hall concert)
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The First Art, Page 23: The Anglo-American Revival (FA0004) A second helping of music from the "Anglican Revival" introduces an important early twentieth-century American work in homage to Palestrina: His Majestie's Clerkes sings Stanford's Coelos ascendit hodie; the St. Martin's Chamber Choir offers Hubert Parry's six Songs of Farewell (1918); and the Roswell, Georgia-based Michael O'Neal Singers performs Randall Thompson's 1935 cycle to texts from Isaiah: The Peaceable Kingdom.
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