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Elektra
to premiere "Changed Forever"...
visit Choral Arrangements to order your copy! Written by Canadian legend Shari Ulrich, arranged by Kate
Polsky, this beautiful song relates the many stages of our lives...
Shari Ulrich is a Canadian
Composer, originally a Californian, who has recorded 7 albums of
original
songs, and a dozen more with other trios - Pied Pumkin, Ulrich
Henderson Forbes
(UHF), and Bentall, Taylor & Ulrich - as an artist and
multi-instrumentalist. She and partner
Bill Runge have done several
choral arrangements of her songs, but Kate Polsky's selection of
"Changed
Forever" to arrange for Elektra is a first for
For more information
on Kate says of the
song: "When initially inspired to arrange a work for
Elektra written by a female Canadian artist, "Changed Forever" was
the first and only song to come to mind. Elektra's
members represent virtually every stage of a woman's
life, and I don't know a single woman who hasn't experienced at least
one thing
Shari has written about in this song - I imagined Elektra as I arranged
the
piece and know that many lives will indeed be 'changed forever' when
they hear
Shari's incredible song sung by what I hope is only the first of many
women's
choirs to perform it." On Saturday, October 24th, 2009, Kate directed a group of her students from both Carson Graham Secondary and the Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach who had been asked to sing back up vocals for DEAD MAN'S BONES, co-led by Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields. Photos and videos are coming soon - for now, click on the following: Review / The Georgia Straight; October 29th-November 4th edition YouTube: "Name In Stone" YouTube: "Bang Bang" - student Jane Agyeman solo with band Other YouTube clips can be found by searching "Dead Man's Bones live Vancouver" |
