It’s pretty heady stuff…to know that we, the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, is responsible for bringing to life the brand new ZABUR. Written by American composer Mohammed Fairouz, and set for full symphony orchestra, large mixed choir, children’s choir and soloists (tenor and baritone), ZABUR is a setting of familiar psalm texts cast in a dramatic… Read More
The once-every-two-years gathering of the American Choral Directors Association took place this past week in Salt Lake City. It’s been a terrific location, with such great venues as the Tabernacle at Temple Square, and Abravanel Hall (home of the Utah Symphony), great mountain view and yummy restaurant options, the thousands of choral conductors, singers and… Read More
As you can see from the accompanying photo, we are excited to have copies of the piano vocal score of our new work, ZABUR, by composer Mohammed Fairouz. Though we only received the second half of the work a few days ago, we have already read through the entire thing. Wow! It is powerful…beautiful…haunting…compelling. The… Read More