Various Artists - Music from Seamus 29 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

John English's love of music and his desire to entertain and educate children draw upon a half century of performing styles ranging from classical,folk,and religious, to jazz, rock, and children's music. He performed and recorded with the Swingin' Medallions until leaving to teach music. John has been an artist with the South Carolina Arts Commision since 1987. He has recorded four solo albums; '123, Sing Along With Me' was featured in the rave reviews section of Sesamee Street Parents Magazine. John was a Semifinalist in Savannah Onstage's 1999 Enmark American Traditions Vocal Competion and was selected as one of three audience favorites to perform in a cabaret show during the 2000 Festival. In review of this show Savannah Morning News Critic Gene Downs noted...'English's delicious baritone, as rich as freshly ground Columbian coffee... One of the most outstanding male voices to come along in years.'-P.J. Birosik-Musik International.

SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) continues with it's commendable series of releasing recordings of works by it's member composers. This volume is the most recent, curated in 2019 by it's current director of recordings, Scott Miller. SEAMUS is a non-profit national organization of composers, performers, and teachers of electro-acoustic music. Electro-acoustic music is a term used to describe those musics that are dependent on electric technology for their creation and/or performance. SEAMUS strives to address not only relevant technology but also the non-technical issues of aesthetics, collaboration, education and ethical/social issues pertinent to the electro-acoustic music community. Composers featured on this include Kyong Mee Choi, Brian Topp, Akiko Hatakeyama, Robert McClure, Chi Wang, Lucas Marshall Smith, Fang Wan, and Caroline Louise Miller.

SEAMUS is a non-profit national organization of composers, performers, and teachers of electro-acoustic music. Electro-acoustic music is a term used to describe those musics which are dependent on electronic technology for their creation and/or performance. SEAMUS strives to address not only relevant technology but also the non-technical issues of aesthetics, collaboration, education, and ethical/social issues pertinent to the electro-acoustic music community. Through it's journal, newsletter, recordings, national meetings, and it's national archive at the University of Texas at Austin, SEAMUS seeks to increase communication among the diverse constituency of this relatively new musical medium. The of the back catalog from the Music from SEAMUS series continues here with Volume 2, originally released in 1993. Electro-acoustic works by composers Scott Wyatt, Jeffrey Haas, Barry Schrader, Cort Lippe, Charles Norman Mason, George Todd, and James Mobberley are featured.