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April 10, 2023
Four Strings Around the World

Available on Amazon Irina Muresanu, Solo Violin Jerod Tate's Oshta (Four) appears on this album. Muresanu’s Four Strings Around the World is a compelling program celebrating the diversity of cultures around the world through the uniting voice of a single medium: the violin. The journey, designed by Irina Muresanu, starts in Europe with the fiddling […]

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April 10, 2023
Documerica

Available on Amazon ETHEL String Quartet Jerod Tate's Pisashi (Reveal) appears on this album. American is beautiful in ETHEL's Documerica. San Francisco Classical Voice In 1971, the newly established Environmental Protection Agency launched Project Documerica, commissioning photographers across America to document the state of the environment and its impact on society. The result was an […]

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April 10, 2023
Works by Jerod Impichcha̱achaaha' Tate

Available on Amazon San Francisco Symphony and ChorusEdwin Outwater, ConductorChristine Bailey Davis, FluteThomas Robertello, Flute Tate is rare as an American Indian composer of classical music. Rarer still is his ability to effectively infuse classical music with American Indian nationalism. Washington Post Tracing Mississippi, Concerto for Flute and Orchestra

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April 10, 2023
To Awaken the Sun

Available on Amazon UCO Cantilena Women's ChoirDarla Eshelman, ConductorCandace Fish, PianoTess Remy-Schumacher, Cello Jerod Tate's Taloowa' Chipota (Children's Songs) appears on this album. Taloowa’ Chipota is a work composed, originally, for middle school aged chorus. The songs are reminiscent of traditional stomp dancing and are based on old Chickasaw melodies. Stomp dances begin at dusk […]

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April 10, 2023
Lowak Shoppala' (Fire and Light)

Available on Amazon Nashville String MachineJerod Impichcha̱achaaha' Tate, ConductorChickasaw Nation Children's Chorus and Dance TroupeVocal Soloists: Stephen Clark, Chelsea Owen, Meghan Vera StarlingNarrators: Lynne Moroney, Wes Studi, Richard Ray Whitman Tate has clearly taken the Western musical tradition and found a compelling voice that integrates his native culture. Sequenza 21 Lowak Shoppala' (Fire and Light) […]

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March 24, 2023
San Francisco Symphony

Thunder Song, curated by composer and pianist Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, celebrates the timeless art of American Indian storytelling and music. Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate leads members of the SF Symphony in his ‘Chokfi'.’ SF Symphony Principal Timpani Edward Stephan performs Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate’s ‘Talowa' Hiloha.’

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March 24, 2023
Chickasaw TV Profile & Interviews

Brief interviews with Jerod Tate explaining his passion for being a Chickasaw Indian composer. https://www.chickasaw.tv/profiles/jerod-tate-profile https://www.chickasaw.tv/episodes/profiles-of-a-nation-season-2-episode-5-jerod-tate https://www.chickasaw.tv/episodes/profiles-of-a-nation-season-5-episode-8-jerod-tate-chickasaw-classical-music https://www.chickasaw.tv/videos/summer-arts-academy

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March 24, 2023
Recreating America

In 2004, Jerod Tate created the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy Music Composition Workshop. This video features how the Chickasaw Nation is redefining itself in the modern word through innovative programs like this.

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March 24, 2023
Science of Composing

in 2010 Jerod Tate taught composition to seven PhD research scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. After five short days of lessons, the student works were premiered by a string quartet made of members of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, performed at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The Oklahoma Education Television Authority created this […]

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October 27, 2022
Shell Shaker: A Chickasaw Opera

Grand Opera in Two Acts - 90'3(1.2.3/Pic.) 3(1.2.3/EH) 3(1.2.3/Bcl.) 3(1.2.3/Cbsn.) - 4 3 3 1; Timp. 3Perc. Hp. Str.Commissioned by Tianhui Ng/Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra .Premiering March 19, 2022 Shell Shaker is a new opera based upon the Chickasaw Indian legend of how the Chickasaw people received turtle shells for stomp dancing and ceremonies.

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