Pat Morehead featured at IDRS Conference
On Saturday, July 7, 2012 three pieces of mine were performed at the IDRS (International Double Reed Society) conference at Miami U, Oxford, Ohio.
The three pieces are:
Conversations for oboe and percussion
Elegy for English horn and piano
Meditation and Exultation (dedicated to Alicia in honor of the Virgin Mary) for solo oboe d’amore
Alicia Cordoba Tait, oboe, oboe d’amore and English horn with Philip Morehead, piano, and George Blanchet, percussion
About Meditation and Exultation – my oboist friend Alicia Cordoba Tait is a Marian scholar at Benedictine University. We are long-time friends (she’s a fine oboist, of course). I am lucky that I went to St. Mary’s Academy for two years to keep me from going astray in high school! I am a mystic who loves the traditional mass in Latin (don’t need to understand) with Gregorian chant.
Pat [Morehead’s] own compositions are cerebrally inspired and disciplined in the best University of Chicago tradition. But they also display a feminine side in their playfulness and their intangible warmth.
— Andrew Patner