Recent News
Sign up for our email mailing list!August 2011 - Choral Packets Now Available!
Ephraim Bay Publishing has just released three new choral packets which include some of Linda Tutas Haugen's most popular works. The packets include three to four works for Women's or SATB Chorus at a 25% discount from single-score pricing. Please visit the choral packet page for more information and to order.
4/20/11 - Pocahontas to tour through Minnesota
This fall, the Duluth Festival Opera, led by Craig Fields, Artistic Director, will take Linda Tutas Haugen’s opera Pocahontas on a Minnesota tour. The opera, which was first premiered in 2007 by the Virginia Opera and Virginia Arts Festival, is a historically accurate portrayal of one of the most important women in the history of the United States. As librettist Joan Vail Thorne writes, the opera “is about the miracle and the mystery surrounding the life of the title character”.
The Pocahontas tour will open in Duluth, followed by performances in Grand Rapids and Burnsville. For information on dates and times, please visit our schedule page. Please check back soon for information about purchasing tickets.
4/16/11 - Independent Music Publishers Coop Formed
We’re excited to announce Linda Tutas Haugen’s membership in the newly formed Independent Music Publishers Cooperative (imp.coop), whose mission is “to provide musicians with access to outstanding self-published sheet music”. The group currently includes eight self-published composers, and the imp.coop website serves as a hub for information on these composers and their catalogs. IMP also exhibits at conventions (most recently the National ACDA Convention in Chicago this April) and plans to hold reading sessions and other events in the future. To learn more, please visit the IMP website.
3/17/11 - Let Us Sing! Video
The Badger State Girl Choir recently commissioned Linda Tutas Haugen to write a new work for treble voices, viola, and bells. The work, entitled Let Us Sing! was performed on the choir's concert tour of Italy in December. This video was taken at the choir's performance in Lucca, Italy. The Badger State Girl Choir is conducted by Dr. Kevin Meidl. For more information about Let Us Sing! please click here.
12/21/10 - New Video!
We're proud to present the following video, which details the process of composing Transformations of Darkness and Light, documents parts of its performance by the St. Olaf Orchestra last spring, and describes the larger project surrounding it: providing an environment to learn about organ donation and transplantation. The video includes interviews with Linda Tutas Haugen; Steven Amundson, Conductor of the St. Olaf Orchestra; and Susan Gunderson, CEO of LifeSource, Minnesota's Organ Procurement Organization. We hope you enjoy it!
Transformations of Darkness and Light: New Music Inspiring Awareness
Video by Nate Haustein at River's Edge Digital Media
To watch each movement of Transformations of Darkness and Light, visit our YouTube page.
To learn more about organ donation and transplantation, please click on the links below:
Lifesource - the Midwest's Organ Procurement Organization
The National Kidney Foundation
The chimes used for the premiere and subsequent performances of this work were made by Gary Kvisted of Woodstock Percussion.
Badger State Girl Choir performs Let Us Sing! at the Vatican
The Badger State Girl Choir recently completed a concert tour of Italy, which included performances of Linda Tutas Haugen's new work, Let Us Sing! The tour included a performance for Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican. Click here to see a short video recording of the performance.
12/3/10
The Badger State Girl Choir will be premiering Let Us Sing! at their upcoming concert in Menasha, Wisconsin, and will be taking the work on their tour of Italy. During the tour, they will have the opportunity to perform the piece for the Pope at the Vatican. Click below to read two news articles about the exciting event!
Fox Valley girl choir to perform for Pope Benedict the XVI on Italy trip
Girl choirs to tap into cultural traditions for holiday shows
Just Announced! Sunshine and Cloudless Sky (Movement IV of Anne Frank: A Living Voice) will be included on the Women's Choirs reading session of the 2011 National ACDA Convention in Chicago Illinois. The session will be held on Friday, March 11th, 2011. Click here for more convention information.
Please excuse us as we work to finish this site. Most pages are complete but some are still under construction. We're working hard to make this a complete source for the music of Linda Tutas Haugen, incorporating sound samples, score excerpts, photos, videos, and more. Please check back often as more is being added all the time!
Click below to watch all four movements of the recent performance of Transformations of Darkness and Light by the St. Olaf Orchestra in Northfield, Minnesota
I. Journey and Celebration
II. An Empty Place
III. Each Thing is Everything Forever
IV. Rebirth and Spirits Dancing
For more information, visit the Transformations of Darkness and Light page.