99 to be featured at College Music Society National Convention
J. Mark Scearce’s Islamic-influenced work, “The 99 Beautiful Names of God” will be featured at the Fifty-Third National Conference of The College Music Society in Minneapolis, September 23-26, 2010. In a presentation entitled “World Music, the Cultural, and the Spiritual” Scearce and pianist John Cheek will reveal all that went into the making of this mammoth solo work for piano.
Released on Albany Records in September 2009, “The 99 Names” have been unanimously positively reviewed in the Jan/Feb 2010 national periodicals Fanfare magazine and the American Record Guide, as well as by Amazon.com, the Raleigh News & Observer, and Classical Voice North Carolina (cvnc.org). The American Record Guide calls it "a lofty idea imaginatively realized"; Fanfare calls it "remarkably nuanced and thoughtful"; Amazon found in it "a cumulative power..contemplative, even philosophical"; CVNC found it "a refuge..elegant, rich, meditative, nourishing " and the N&O "compelling, reverent and reflective".
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