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Richard Edward Toensing<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(1940-2014) was an esteemed composer, a respected teacher, and an extraordinary choral conductor. Explore this\u00a0site in honor of his music and continuing legacy.<\/p>\n

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News & Reviews<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The 2019-20 American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award<\/strong> for the Performance of American Music by a College\/University Ensemble<\/strong> was awarded to Richard Toensing’s Whitman Tropes<\/em>, performed by New England Conservatory Symphony Winds (Boston, MA), conducted by William B. Drury.\u00a0 |\u00a0 more info<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nRichard Toensing manuscripts and papers<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Richard Toensing manuscripts and papers comprise scores and professional materials encompassing Toensing\u2019s career as a composer and teacher. The centerpiece of the collection is 21 boxes of scores spanning his entire career as a composer, from his 1964 Doxologies I<\/em> (for Wind, Brass, and Percussion) to his final work Serene and Heavenly Bells (<\/em>2014). Many of the scores are supplemented with data discs that include the Finale notation software files as well as PDF scans of Toensing\u2019s work. Also included in the collection are concert programs and professional papers, including programs for numerous performances from the University of Colorado Boulder and other festivals around the world, correspondence, awards, biographical information, concert reviews, photographs, audio recordings, and other papers that document Toensing\u2019s time as professor at CU Boulder.<\/p>\n

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Toensing’s \u201cChildren of Light\u201d on American Webster<\/em> CD receives Gramophone<\/em> review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most ambitious work is Richard Toensing\u2019s Children of Light, a spiritual journey written for The Websters, set in five movements of differing mood and pace, drawing on the theology, language and music of the Orthodox Church, whose final version is radiant, impressionist haze.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Note: Scores for \u201cChildren of Light,\u201d for flute, clarinet, and piano, are available for purchase. Contact janetbraccio@comcast.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A Meditation by Richard Toensing<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe that, after time stops, all music written in the spirit of praise to God (and the inspiration and ennoblement of man) will be performed again\u2014perfectly\u2014in Heaven, as part of the eternal round of God\u2019s praise.\u00a0 (It may be that all other music will be performed Somewhere Else; upon that I do not care to dwell). Thus, I wish my music to at once foreshadow that heavenly performance, and also to bring, as best as I am able, the music of Heaven down to Earth. May it truly, and ever, be so.<\/em>
\n~Richard Toensing, found posthumously in a notebook, written circa 1980s<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In Memoriam<\/strong><\/p>\n