Akron Chronogram
Roger Zahab has been commissioned by the Akron Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Wilkins, music director, to celebrate its 6oth anniversary. Akron Chronogram will be a twenty minute kaleidoscopic work performed with video by artist Laura Ruth Bidwell with support from the Akron Art Museum, Mitchell Kahan, director, and will be premiered by the Akron Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christopher Wilkins in E. J. Thomas Hall, Akron, Ohio on April 21, 2012.
Zahab writes: I am writing a virtuoso work that is nonetheless "all melody all the time" for orchestra that I hope will capture sensations of being both inside music – as it is happening now, pulling you along - and outside – as if hearing it from various distances in time and space. It is composed of many streams of music superimposed and flowing through each other to evoke many of the peoples and musics that have lived through the Akron area, its Symphony, and in the memories of its people.
posted - 2011-11-08
Roger Zahab is now distributed by NewMusicShelf.com
Pdf scores for some of my works are now available for purchase at newmusicshelf.com
posted - 2010-07-20
A New Choral Work
Roger has been commissioned to write a work for the Music & Architecture Project at Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh. The result, Be Joyful, is a setting of the last words of Saint David of Wales for SATB choir and organ with optional solo violin and cello parts. It will be premiered on All Saints Day, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at Calvary Episcopal Church under the direction of Alan Lewis.
posted - 2009-07-03