Creating quality music for young voices - preserving the beauty of choral tradition, exploring new ideas! We provide choral/elementary music clinician services and live music for events.
Rick is pleased and grateful to have received commissions for original choral works in 2009 from Christa Joy Chase, representing the Catholic Archdiocesan Youth Choir Festival, Gary Lovingood & Anthony Goss representing the GMEA District VII High Schools (SSA) and Middle School (SSA) Choruses, and Jeannine Davis & Jim Stanley representing the Cartersville Elementary Orffestra & Cartersville HIgh Choruses (SATB w/treble chorus). Craig Hurley commissioned a piece for the Spivey Hall Young Artists in 2008. Who's next for 2011? Rick would love to work with you on a project!
What is a cosmic possum?
“The term, coined by Tennessee poet Jane Hicks, (Blood and Bone Remember: Poems from Appalachia, Jesse Stuart Foundation Press, 2005) refers to people of Southern mountain heritage who have acquired modern sophistication without losing touch with their regional origins.”…….
…….”For cosmic possums culture is not an either- or proposition. The trick is to move into the future without letting go of the past, because if you lose your cultural identity, you have nothing to sustain you in the modern rootless world which lurches from one ephemeral trend to another.”
- quotes by Sharon McCrumb from her blog