Jeff Olmsted: News

I presented some songs from "The Suprizing Work of God", my opera-in-progress about Jonathan Edwards, at the annual conference of the Jonathan Edwards Society on October 7 at First Churches in Northampton, where he preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" in 1741.

Directing a community choir at Northampton Community Music Center, called Peace In The Valley. We'll be singing devotional and inspirational music from all over the place. First rehearsal Sept 14 at 7. Be there!

I'm teaching a breakthrough piano method called Simply Music.

http://www.simplymusic.com

I produced another CD with Grace singing ten of our favorite classics (okay, I wrote two of them)
Click on "Music" to hear tracks. Send $10 to me at 31 Maynard Rd, Northampton MA 01060, and I'll send you one.

I am a winner of the New Music for New Dance competition sponsored by the Dayton Ballet. They will perform "Dervish", my piece for chamber orchestra, March 24-27.
http://www.daytonballet.org/performances.php?id=8

I have a new song-setting the words of Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, aka the Underpants Bomber. Click on Music.

My song "Music Master" won the Interfaith Choral Composition Competition sponsored by ActorCor in NYC. They performed it All Souls' Church on MLK weekend.

The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Chamber Chorus premiered my "Songs of Rumi" on October 28 and 29.

http://www.daytonphilharmonic.com/content.jsp?articleId=1487

My musical adaptation of Moliere's "Tartuffe" is looking for a production!

The play was banned for its presumed irreligion immediately following its first performance at Versailles in 1662. The themes of religious credulity, fanaticism and hypocrisy are, of course, evergreen.