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RICHARD TOENSING, COMPOSER

1940-2014
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Richard Edward Toensing (1940-2014) was an esteemed composer, a respected
teacher, and an extraordinary choral conductor. Explore this site in honor of
his music and continuing legacy.

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NEWS & REVIEWS

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

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Richard Toensing manuscripts and papers
The Richard Toensing manuscripts and papers comprise scores and professional
materials encompassing Toensing’s 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 (for Wind, Brass, and Percussion) to
his final work Serene and Heavenly Bells (2014). Many of the scores are
supplemented with data discs that include the Finale notation software files as
well as PDF scans of Toensing’s 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’s time as
professor at CU Boulder.

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Toensing’s “Children of Light” on American Webster CD receives Gramophone
review:

“The most ambitious work is Richard Toensing’s 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.”

Note: Scores for “Children of Light,” for flute, clarinet, and piano, are
available for purchase. Contact janetbraccio@comcast.net.

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A Meditation by Richard Toensing

> 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—perfectly—in Heaven, as part of the eternal round of God’s praise.  (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.
> ~Richard Toensing, found posthumously in a notebook, written circa 1980s

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In Memoriam

 * Faculty Tuesday: The Music of Richard Toensing
   Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 7:30 PM
   Grusin Hall, CU College of Music, Boulder
   For the full Memorial Concert program, including audio, click here.
 * New Music Box (a publication from New Music USA)
   Richard Toensing (1940-2014)—“The Oak Doesn’t Grow as Fast as the Squash”
   By Kristin Kuster (composer and former student), August 5, 2014
   “Dick Toensing gave us some of the most gorgeous music on this earth. Equally
   important, the distinguishedness of the sheer volume of wisdom he imparted to
   his students is immeasurable. He was an ever-optimist, an ever-realist, and
   never a downer. Yes, he could see through the bull-hooey quicker than most
   and didn’t hesitate to politely call it out. His career was like the
   slow-growing oak, and as an artist, teacher, and human he expressed himself
   clearly, gently, with respect and compassion.”
 * Colorado Public Radio – Remembering Colorado composer Richard Toensing,
   1940-2014
   Audio: Composer Richard Toensing on hearing his own music performed
 * Remembering Richard Toensing
   By Greg Simon, composer and former student
   “Listening to a Toensing piece might be akin to watching the embers after a
   fire: a gentle sense of warmth pervades everything, but it’s never stagnant —
   the glow flickers and dances in languid, unpredictable ways. A perfect
   starting point is his Kontakion on the Nativity of Christ for a cappella
   choir, a ‘choral concerto’ born from Dick’s Orthodox Christian faith.”
 * Denver church gives posthumous premiere of Richard Toensing piece
   Colorado Public Radio, 8/13/14

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