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		<title>Premiere in Greenville, Oct 23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;St. Patrick&#8217;s Hymn&#8221; will be premiered at the Peace Center, downtown Greenville SC, on Saturday Oct 23. Most of my premieres are all over the place, but this one is virtually in my backyard! Can&#8217;t wait to hear it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danforrest.com/?p=864</link>
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		<title>A Christmas Lullaby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finished up A Christmas Lullaby today- it&#8217;s a new version of A Basque Lullaby, with Christmas lyrics by the best lyricist I know- Charles Anthony Silvestri. It&#8217;ll be premiered at Christmas At The Cathedral in Sioux Falls, SD, this Christmas, and will be available from Hinshaw Music next spring. Ordinarily, neither I nor Hinshaw would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danforrest.com/?p=855</link>
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		<title>Silvestri text</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to go to bed two hours ago&#8230;.but instead, I spent most of that time hacking through a text with Tony Silvestri on Facebook chat. (No doubt, that&#8217;s how George and Ira Gershwin collaborated, right?) The good news is, we worked out the wrinkles and snags in what Tony called one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danforrest.com/?p=853</link>
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		<title>Congratulations!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to James Barnes, my dear friend, mentor, and doctoral teacher. He&#8217;s been commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic! It doesn&#8217;t get any better than that!!! I&#8217;m SOOOOO excited for him! http://www.news.ku.edu/2010/august/24/berlin.shtml]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danforrest.com/?p=851</link>
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		<title>Site Update!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had fallen behind on maintaining some of the pages and listings on my website. I think things are updated now- especially the &#8220;New Music&#8221; tab (which is new), and the &#8220;current commissions&#8221; and &#8220;upcoming events&#8221; under &#8220;About Dan&#8221;. PS) I also turned off Auto-Play on the audio player; but feel free to press play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danforrest.com/?p=842</link>
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		<title>Three Nocturnes Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check these out- South Dakota 2010 Senior Honor Choir, performing the Three Nocturnes superbly, with all the percussion (!)&#8230;and from memory. Impressive! Fabulous work by the choir under the outstanding direction of Dr. Kevin Fenton. (Kevin, someday we need to meet! ) Note especially the climactic section of the second movement, when all the choral [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danforrest.com/?p=804</link>
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		<title>You Are The Music&#8230;all 600 of you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hmm. I&#8217;ve never heard 600 auditioned singers sing any of my pieces, conducted by anyone, let alone by Craig Arnold! But I wouldn&#8217;t mind hearing this in November! (Scroll down on the link to the choral audition section).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danforrest.com/?p=793</link>
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		<title>Two new pieces completed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve last posted on here, two more pieces have been completed: St. Patrick&#8217;s Hymn, for chorus and orchestral winds/brass (Brahms Requiem instrumentation minus strings!). (Hinshaw Music 2012) It&#8217;ll be premiered October 23 by the Greenville Chorale (who commissioned it) and Greenville Symphony, at the Peace Center in downtown Greenville SC. Can&#8217;t wait! I Know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danforrest.com/?p=791</link>
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		<title>New orchestration for There Is Faint Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There Is Faint Music was Hal Leonard&#8217;s top-selling Christmas anthem last year. I had some requests for an orchestration for it, but never had a commission or a chance to write it on my own. This year, the Columbus, IN Children&#8217;s Choir has commissioned an orchestration for it, and will be premiering it on Sunday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danforrest.com/?p=787</link>
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		<title>Congrats to the Hwa Chong Choir!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hwa Chong Choir (Singapore) sang A Basque Lullaby as part of their program at the Festival of Songs in Olomouc, Czech Republic, last month. They won the competition. Listen and you&#8217;ll hear why.]]></description>
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