Kirke Mechem - References/bibliography

References/bibliography

Composers on Composing for Choir, Tom Wine, ed., GIA, 2007. Much of the information for this article was drawn from the "Kirke Mechem" chapter, pp 83–119. The chapter also includes several articles on music written previously by Mechem:

• "The Text Trap", first published in the Choral Journal, November, 2003
• "Commissioning New Choral Music", a checklist prepared for ACDA
• "Alienation and Entertainment", first published in the Choral Journal, March,1973; republished, March, 1998.

Interview about Tartuffe with Hannah Williams, University of Michigan, American Music Institute, Living Music Project, October 30, 2004.

Interview for program notes of San Francisco Choral Society, Carol Talbeck, 2007.

Kirke Mechem, "An American Opera Network", in Perspectives: Creating and Producing Contemporary Opera and Musical Theater, Opera America, 1983, revised and reprinted in Encore magazine, Opera America, 1999.

Kirke Mechem, "Confessions of A Hymn Bandit: The Amazing Case of ‘Blow Ye The Trumpet’", Chorus America VOICE, Spring, 2004.

Kirke Mechem, "The Chronic Crisis", remarks for the Music Critics Association of North America, published in San Francisco Classical Voice, August 5, 2003.