Steve Alder / Julie Keyes - Sweet Is the Work: Peaceful Missionary HymnsAward winning composer and arranger Kurt Bestor and photographer Mark Mabry have once again teamed up with the flute and harp duo Opus 2 in the production of Sweet is the Work. This missionary themed compilation focuses on the peaceful subset of beloved missionary hymns, and emphasizes the gentle and thoughtful side of missionary service. Songs such as A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief, Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy, Joseph Smith's First Prayer, Army

He stands as a worthy successor to such masters as Ginastera

The Manatees

and recorded at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music's Mary Flagler Cary Hall (Summer Songs and Autumn Songs)

Thanks to the technique of re-recording

Fabian Bloch (euphonium) and Muriel Zeiter (piano) take us on a journey through three centuries of masterpieces to which they lend a new voice

Another Woman Looking for a Man Sonny Burns

he headlined shows coast-to-coast and shut down festival stages at Lollapalooza and beyond

Be it the fresh & upbeat "Vertigo" and "Mad Dreams"

suppressed in the wake of her mother's death

and Arturo Michelangelo

jazz musicians everywhere realized the potential of lushly orchestrated strings to enhance their creativity

of untamed hooligan youth carving out their own future in a system where the odds were stacked against them