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A composer and arranger, Ms. McRae has received ASCAP awards each year since 1993, and four of her choral compositions have won national awards. Her choral pieces have been widely performed (including Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City), recorded on the Pro Organo, Penguin Digital, and Mark Custom labels, and aired on National Public Radio. She has published nine books of Orff arrangements, secular and sacred mixed choral works (Broude Bros., G.I.A., Mark Foster, Neil A. Kjos, Plymouth, Choristers Guild, Alliance, and Concordia), a recorder method book, and a textbook, Directing the Children's Choir: A Comprehensive Resource, published by Schirmer in 1991. She is a contributing composer to both volumes of the Supplement to the United Methodist Hymnal and was the featured church musician in a journal by Abingdon Press, Church Music Workshop, April, 1991 and again in September, 1995. A commissioned hymn tune appears in the 1997 Supplement To the Hymnal 1982 of the Episcopal church. Her most recent book, published by Abingdon Press in 1995, is a collection of descants for 45 hymn tunes, High Praise. One of her numerous commissions, "The Song Inside of Me," was written for the Tennessee Bicentennial and declared by State Resolution 221 of the State Legislature the official school song for the Bicentennial in 1996. |
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Shirley
McRae is
Professor Emeritus (Music) at the University of Memphis and an active
consultant in Orff Schulwerk and children's choirs. Her work draws
upon many years of experience as an elementary school music specialist
and children's choir director. She has presented sessions at national
AOSA conferences, state MENC conventions, and church music seminars.
She teaches Orff Schulwerk certification courses, Levels 1, 2, and
3, at various universities in the country. She was the 1991 recipient
of the Dean's Faculty Creative Achievement Award at the University
of Memphis. In 2000 she was nominee for Premier Music Teacher of
the Year by the Memphis Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.