![]() In 1935, he became an instructor in music at The Colorado College in Colorado Springs and spent four years as first oboist in the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Because of the influx of cultured health-seekers, the young Effinger had the opportunity to see notable performers such as Stravinsky in an area of the western United States often thought of by those on the East Coast as less as than civilized. His home town, Colorado Springs, Colorado, was known for the healing qualities of its natural springs and dry climate. Eads and his compositions, please visit Ĭecil Effinger began his musical studies as a violinist and oboist. He studied composition with Alaskan composer, John Luther Adams.įor more information on Dr. The Vancouver Cantata Singers gave the Canadian premiere of his De Profundis in February 2020. His most recent project, A Prairie Cantata with poetry by North Dakota poet, Huldah Lucile Winsted was premiered in November 2019, funded by a grant from the North Dakota Council of the Arts. His newest opera, The Princess Sophia, about the sinking of the SS Princess Sophia in October of 1918, was premiered in Juneau, Alaska on October 25th, 2018 to rave review in Opera Magazine. ![]() His cantata “…from which your laughter rises.” for mezzo-soprano, oboe, and orchestra, was written for the mothers of the Fairbanks Four, and was paired in a concert featuring Haydn’s Stabat Mater, conducted to acclaim. The Mass was written for the release of the Fairbanks Four (native Alaskan’s from the composer’s home town) who spent 18 years in prison wrongfully. His Mass for the Oppressed, a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass featuring textual interpolations by his brother Evan Eads, and a Credo adapted from the diary of Pope Francis before his ordination, holds particular poignancy for the social issues of our time. ![]() As a composer and conductor, Emerson has devoted himself to music of social concern. Emerson Eads currently serves as Director of Choral Activities at Minot State University.
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