CROSSING THE BAR 
music: Nilo Alcala
poem: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective
“Water Music” concert
conducted by: Benjamin Arendsen
soloists: Soloists: Artemisz Polonyi and Maya Webne-Behrman
recording: Noriko Okabe
Recorded live June 9, 2018
Church of St. Luke in the Fields, Manhattan, NY
http://www.c4ensemble.org

Crossing The Bar (N. Alcala) C4: The Composer/Conductor Collective

"Si NO ayudamos a cuidar, nuestros bosques, pronto quedaremos sin agua". No contamine los ríos, suelos y el aire.! Siembra mas arboles.!
Escuchen la mejor música del planeta la Música Colombiana. Comparta con tus amigos y familiares; felicidades y que sigan amando y viviendo nuestra música autóctona, Dios les  bendiga  y nos permita vivir en Paz ! 🎼🎧🎤🎶
Son  mis sinceros deseos, que en esta Navidad, y Año Nuevo la pases en unión con todos sus familiares y amigos, a pesar de esta pandemia. No olvide si guardamos y cumplimos con las medidas de Bioseguridad, el distanciamiento, usamos tapabocas, 😷nos lavamos las 👐 con jabón, y usamos alcohol-gel, evitamos contagios. Cuídese Ud y cuide a los demás, pues falta poco y ya casi nos ponemos la 💉y sus refuerzos,xra completar el esquema de vacunación;seamos responsables,más respeto x la vida de los demás.🙏🆘🇻🇪
Nuestra amada música Andina Colombiana,necesita para su expresión,una guitarra,un tiple,una bandola y/o un requinto.Mucha alegría,amor y una bella mujer presente,o un buen paisaje.y la maestría,habilidad interpretativa de sus músicos.
Si vas a bailar cumbia ten en cuenta estos clips :No te pierdas ♫♪ SomalDj - Amante ritmos & Música Colombiana ♫♪ en #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/somaldj?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1
Y nuestro himno musical 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQVMrd8vrJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYMIrGgC0Co

"Por favor no me envíen temas musicales de Reagueton.No me gustan,y no los escucho," 
No quiero q me envíen música de corridos,rancheras,cumbias
 sonideras. gracias !
https://www.soundcloud.com/Somaldj/library

I teach in US higher education (in a STEM field) & am a hobbyist composer writing in a few different styles. I recommend headphones. All of my music is released under a Creative Commons Attribution/Noncommercial license.

My bandcamp page is getting out of date again, but some older albums there can be downloaded for free or for a name-your-own price donation.

If anyone wants to try performing any of this stuff on real instruments please send a message and I can provide scores. Not sure how playable some of it is for human musicians though.

Unsolicited messages asking me to listen to your latest song will lead to you being blocked unless if I know you well and we've interacted a lot.

My music is written without the use of AI.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!

Nilo Alcala’s compositions and arrangements have been performed in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. His choral suite Manga Pakalagian has been hailed as “extraordinary...” (Eric Whitacre), “very fine...” (Morten Lauridsen), “...powerful... spectacularly engaging” (Lauri’s List), “...exuberant and at times hypnotic...”(Cultural Cocktail Hour), and “...scaled peaks of genius” (Asian Journal).

Alcala made history for being the first composer from the Philippines to receive the prestigious Aaron Copland House Residency Award (2017), as well as the first Filipino to be commissioned by the Grammy-nominated Los Angeles Master Chorale and premiered at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. 

Alcala’s awards also include the POLYPHONOS Young Composer Award from The Esoterics (Seattle, WA), the 2nd Prize Asian Composers League Young Composer Award (Israel), and Ani ng Dangal (Harvest of Honor) from the Office of the President of the Philippines. His commissions include the National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA); Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival; Korean Ministry of Culture; Asia-Europe Foundation; and premieres by the Metro Manila Concert Orchestra. 

Alcala was composer-in-residence of the Philippine Madrigal Singers (UNESCO Artist for Peace) which premiered his works in international competitions such as the Florilege Vocal de Tours (France); the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing (Italy); and events including the American Choral Directors Association National Conference (Dallas, TX); the 9th World Symposium on Choral Music (Argentina); and America Cantat 7 (Colombia). 

An Asian Cultural Council grantee, Alcala is also a Billy Joel Fellow at Syracuse University where he earned an MMus in Composition and received the Irene L. Crocker Music Award. He holds a BM in Composition at the University of the Philippines, graduating Magna cum laude. 

A versatile composer, Alcala also scores for the screen. His music for the film Homecoming (Gil Portes, Director) earned nominations for Best Musical Score at the Metro Manila Film Festival and Star Awards for Movies. He is also part of the composers team for Train Station, a ground-breaking international film by CollabFeature with 40 directors from 25 of countries. Alcala also recently scored White Horse Pictures’ short documentary Candlestick Park Fans (The Last Ticketed Concert of The Beatles) to promote Ron Howard’s “The Beatles: Eighth Days A Week”. He is currently music director of Club Six Studios, a Silicon Valley-based mobile video game company.

Crossing The Bar (N. Alcala) C4: The Composer/Conductor Collective

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