FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music new music chamber chorus NOTUS is pleased to announce the release of its third album, “Weaving Eternity: Music of Wild Imagination,” on Navona Records. The recording is available on numerous digital platforms, including Amazon Music, Apple Music and YouTube, beginning today, Sept. 5.
Featuring more than 90 student performers, the album also includes Jacobs faculty Dominick DiOrio, composer and director; Gabriel Jenks, composer and harpist; Don Freund, composer; Otis Murphy, alto saxophonist; and D. James Tagg, audio engineer. Additional composers include Dale Trumbore and Zanaida Stewart Robles.
“NOTUS’s new album, ‘Weaving Eternity,’ celebrates the wild and unabashed imagination inherent in childhood,” said Dominick DiOrio, chair of the Choral Conducting Department. “The more than 90 Jacobs School of Music students on the album revel in this unbounded creativity, from the expressions of excitement in the second movement of Dale Trumbore’s ‘Charting the World’ to the wondrous depiction of play in Jacobs professor Don Freund’s ‘Popping Bubbles.’ I am thrilled that faculty members Gabriel Jenks and Otis Murphy lent their artistry to this album, all lovingly produced and engineered by associate professor D. James Tagg. I couldn’t be prouder of my students and their achievement for NOTUS’s third commercial album.”
Listen to a preview of “Weaving Eternity: Music of Wild Imagination.”
Winner of the 2019 American Prize in Choral Performance, NOTUS is one of the country’s most unique collegiate vocal ensembles, with a singular commitment to championing living composers through the commissioning, programming and recording of new works.
NOTUS has performed across the nation, including at Carnegie Hall, and released its first album, “Of Radiance and Refraction” (Innova), in 2018, followed by “What Is Ours: Music for an America in Progress” (Navona Records) in 2022. It was one of only 24 choirs invited to perform at the 12th World Symposium on Choral Music before it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. NOTUS was named an International Federation for Choral Music Ambassador in 2022.