{"id":9249,"date":"2019-07-27T10:12:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T10:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2022-10-29T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T11:14:15","slug":"m-ryan-taylor-%e2%80%a2-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=9249","title":{"rendered":"M. Ryan Taylor \u2022 Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>M. Ryan Taylor<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve written operas, dozens of choral works, art songs, song cycles, pop songs, children\u2019s songs, hymns (are you noticing a trend toward vocal music?) as well as other works of chamber music . . . I\u2019m also a hiker, recipe hacker, a multi-media artist, a choral conductor, a performing baritone, an ukulele\/tuba\/piano\/pennywhistle and once-upon-a-time bassoon player, a son, a friend,\u00a0a husband, a father, a sci-fi and Tolkien fan, a poet, a book-lover,\u00a0a hymn-arranger, a gardener,\u00a0a church organist, a some-time animator, a party-thrower, a concert-producer, a web-builder, a collector of music toys and oddities. These are some of the things that inform and shape my music.
\nOPERA: My\u00a0first opera, Abinadi, was premiered, filmed and broadcast by Brigham Young University in 2003.\u00a0I then\u00a0self-produced, directed and performed in\u00a0my second opera, The Other Wise Man\u00a0: a chamber opera in one-act, based on the story by Henry Van Dyke, in 2006-7.\u00a0My\u00a0third opera, based on George MacDonald\u2019s fairy tale, The Giant\u2019s Heart, is a work in progress and may never be finished . . . I\u2019m leaning in my heart a little more toward musical theater these days. In 2013-14 I\u2019ve worked on co-writing a number of songs for Mark Stoddard\u2019s Strangers In Nauvoo musical.
\nART SONG: Some of the song cycles I\u2019ve written include\u00a0a\u00a0teaming with The American Fork Arts Council Press to set poems by 10 living Utah-based poets; the result was a\u00a0set of songs\u00a0entitled, 3 Floors to the Grass. Other song cycle premieres include the Moon Songs on poems of Vachel Lindsay (winner of the Vera Hinckley Mayhew Composition Contest) by soprano Heather Chipman and pianist Dwight Bigler, A Light that Shames the Noonday Sun at the BYU 200th birthday celebration of Joseph Smith Jr. by tenor Lawrence Vincent and pianist Scott Holden, and All Heaven and it was One Hour Old (based on the Christmas poetry of Katherine Tynan) by soprano Venicia Wilson and pianist Lynn Jemison-Keisker.<\/p>\n

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