On this episode of The Spark: Winchester Composer, and EMU faculty member, Ryan Keebaugh was one of five finalists in this year’s Iron Composer Challenge. To compete, Ryan had five hours to compose a piece for three pretty weird instruments that was somehow suggestive of a board game he'd never heard of.
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Ardent Shimmer - Ryan Keebaugh's Iron Composer work
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0qd_fOFzws
Choral work, The Suffering Servant, performed by the University of South Florida Chamber Singers, James Bass, conductor.
(This work was recently recorded by the University of Western Michigan Choir and will be released in 2016)