Hawley/ Arts/ Bode - Shall We Gather at the River Release:Shall We Gather at the River Gothic Records the Japanese axepert flew to

the Japanese axepert flew to LA and convinced both Ellis and Meers that their future lay in the far East with Seiki Matsu

the heavy knots of even quotidian conflict

was first and foremost a composer of symphonies that were made to be danced

worried sick about his father

Hawley/ Arts/ Bode - Shall We Gather at the River Release:Shall We Gather at the River Gothic Records the Japanese axepert flew toWilliam Hawley (b. 1950) is one of the central figures in today's American choral music renaissance. As a student at Ithaca College and the California Institute of the Arts, he composed avant garde instrumental works, and even flirted with minimalism. The launch of his Two Motets in 1981 demonstrated a shift to vocal music and a more emotionally direct style. His continuing American choral music has helped establish compositional trends since adopted