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"Gurrelieder: in the Walt Disney Hall, review of LA Philharmonic performance at ACDA convention, in American Choral Review (Summer/Fall 2005)

Days of Awe, review of 5 CD set of music for the Jewish High Holidays conducted by Samuel Adler, in The Choral Journal (September 1996)

The Choral Music of Latin America: a Guide to Compositions and Research, by Suzanne Spicer Tiemstra, review in Music Library Notes (December 1993)

Music in Terezin, 1941-45, by Joza Karas, review in The Austrian History Yearbook (1993)

Choral Music on Record, Edited by Alan Blyth, review in Music Library Notes (December 1992)

Run Ye Shepherds to the Light, Michael Haydn, edited by Elwood Jay Johnson, and Nine Choruses from "Continental Harmony" by William Billings, edited by Dale Jergenson, reviews in The Choral Journal (March 1983)

Who Moved the Heavy Stone, by Austin C. Lovelace, and Song to Sing Out, Hymn to Joy, and God Who Made the Earth, by Alice Jordan, reviews in The Choral Journal (April 1982)

Unser Heiland ist geboren, by Wolfgang Hofmann, review in The Choral Journal (April 1982)

Adoramus te, by G. P. da Palestrina, edited by Thomas Dunn, King Jesus Has a Garden, Wexford Carol, and Praise the Lord O My Soul, by John Rutter, Let All the People Praise Thee O God, by William Mathias, and Holy Communion, by Jack Hawes, reviews in The Choral Journal (March 1982)

Sing We Now of Christmas, by W. M. Govea, Kyrie eleison (from Mass VI), by Antonio Lotti, edited by Walter Ehret, and Sing Praises by Kent Newbury, reviews in The Choral Journal (December 1981)

Hosanna in the Highest, by John Horman, I Was Glad, by James McCray, and A Child My Choice, by Stephen Paulus, reviews in The Choral Journal (October 1981)

Symphony Out of Touch, review of Downey Symphony Concert in The Southeast News (February 15, 1974)

Night of Nostalgia, review of Downey Symphony concert in The Southeast News (January 25, 1974)

WORLD PREMIERE

Harpsichord Concerto

Amarillo, TX

RECENT COMMISSIONS

Three Sexton Songs (Anne Struggles with the Downward Slide), commissioned anonymously for Emily May

Fantasia for Flute and Piano, commissioned by Jack Lachter for the Beverly Hills International Music Festival

Music for the Blue Rose, for Piano, Violin, Cello, and Mixed Chorus, commissioned for the Blue Rose Trio and the Choral Society of Southern California by Wilbur Richardson

Shir HaShirim, for tenor and mezzo soloists mixed chorus and string quartet, commissioned by Wilbur Richardson for the Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale and Sinai Temple of Los Angeles

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century (Amadeus Press, 2008)

Dvorák's Saint Ludmila: Genesis, Premiere, and Aftermath

(American Choral Review, Winter/Spring 2006)

Hallelujah: 36 Great Sacred Choruses, booklet notes for EMI 2-CD compilation set

(April 2004)

RECENT RECORDINGS

Christmas, consultant on Kimberly Locke's (American Idol) 2007 Holiday album

The Nativity Story, choral conductor (New Line Cinema, 2006)

Max Helfman: Die Naye Hagode, conductor (Naxos American Classics, 2006)

RECENT REVIEWS WRITTEN

"Gurrelieder" in the Walt Disney Hall, a review of the Los Angeles Philharmonic performance at ACDA Convention

(American Choral Review, Summer/Fall 2005)

PHOTOS FROM THE ARCHIVE

5Nick Strimple and Dr. Richard Braun, Chairman of the Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles, 2006.

5Richard Thomas and Nick Strimple following a rehearsal in Beverly Hills, 1982.

5James Stewart with Nick Strimple during a rehearsal break, 1992.