Making a Logo

On We dnesday ...I created a logo I can live with. So much of my mother, LIBBIE JACOBS, is represented in the imagery. Purple was her favorite color and I chose growing purple flowers to represent her, and the growing nature of the work.

Already so much LIFE has occurred in this creative journey ...

This includes an interview with Brenda Tremblay at WXXI in early March, a recording of the unison setting at PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (funded in part by THRIVENT FINANCIAL for LUTHERANS), submission to the FOUNDATION FOR THE SACRED ARTS, use in the inner-city cluster Ascension Service this past May at Reformation Lutheran Church in Rochester, NY, and NOW ...
(drum roll. please)
preparation for its premiere on December 11, 2010 in an SATB setting with a full orchestra.

The MASS for the LIVING is special ... and I suspect there will be many more things that grow from it ... I can just FEEL it ...

About the mass: "When someone we really love dies, we are left behind ... and we hurt like hell ... so a requiem mass isn't appropriate ... the person I love is dead, and I am alive ... and I mourn ... so I wrote the Mass for the Living because I believe we are to celebrate the love of someone who lived--whom I loved ... and in everything I do, she will live again in the music. She will always be with me."

In March 2010, the unison setting was recorded at PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH by a 20-voice volunteer choir conducted by LINDSAY WARREN BAKER. The recording project was funded in part by a generous donation from THRIVENT FINANCIAL for LUTHERANS (https://www.thrivent.com/). The sound engineer for the project was Sasha Yevstifeev.


In late-March 2010, the MASS FOR THE LIVING (unison setting) was submitted to a composition competition sponsored by THE FOUNDATION FOR THE SACRED ARTS using the New English Translations of the Mass. Winners of the competition are to be announced at the end of May 2010. After the announcement of winners, the recording and sheet music will be released to congregations who participated in the recording event.

The future of the MASS FOR THE LIVING includes its premiere of its concert SATB setting under the talented baton of NANCIA D'ALIMONTE and her NIH Philhamornic Orchestra on December 11, 2010 in Washington, D.C.

Parts of the MASS FOR THE LIVING include:
KYRIE
GLORIA
ALLELUIA
ACCLAMATIONS A, B, C
AMEN
SANCTUS
AGNUS DEI

The concert setting will include an additional solo "Lo, I Am Always with You" for mezzo-soprano.


For more information, email: massfortheliving@gmail.com