C.M. Shearer

C. M. Shearer, Professor Emeritus and retired Director of Choral Activities at Kent State University distinguished himself as a conductor, composer, teacher, and clinician. His choirs have performed for state and national choral and music educational organizations, and he has prepared choruses for The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Mexico City National Symphony, Corpus Christi Symphony, Omaha Symphony, Victoria (Texas) Symphony, Canton (Ohio) Symphony, and several others. Further, Shearer has prepared orchestras and choruses for such noted composers as Alberto Ginestera, Srul Irving Glick, Krystof Penderecki, Ned Rorem, Robert Ward, and David Ward-Steinman. As a composer, Shearer has written several hundred published choral compositions as well as commissions from the Texas Choral Directors Association, the Texas University Interscholastic League, North Carolina Music Educators Association, and the American Guild of Organists. He is co-author of Sight-Singing Part Exercises, a supplementary volume of The Jenson Sight-Singing Course, published by Jenson Publications. In addition, Shearer?s compositions are frequently used as sight-reading material at choral competitions in several states. For the past two decades, he has composed the Ohio Music Educators Association high-school choral sight-reading contest music. His choral compositions are available from Keiser Productions/Southern Music and CMS Publications (www.CMSPublications.com). Shearer has conducted numerous choral festivals, all-state choirs, and workshops on the regional, state, and national levels. His bachelor?s and master?s degrees are from The University of North Texas and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree is from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition to his twenty-two years at Kent State University, Shearer served as Chorus Master for the Corpus Christi Symphony, Opera Omaha, and Opera Cleveland. He was also Director of Choral Activities at Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, Texas) and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His public-school experience consisted of teaching secondary choral music for eight years in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, and for more than twenty years he served as a part-time church musician at Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopalian churches.

Titles:

• – Shall I Wasting In Despair (out-of-print)
• – Tide Rises, The Tide Falls, The (out-of-print)
• – ECCE PUER ( BEHOLD THE
• – Hark! Hark! The Lark! (out-of-print)
• – Good Morning Sky! (out-of-print)
• 1971 – Hie Away, Hie Away
• 1971 – Song At Dusk
• 1973 – Owl, The
• 1973 – My Heart Leaps Up
• 1973 – Who Has Seen the Wind?
• 1973 – Geography Isn’t Hard
• 1973 – There Was a Roaring in the Wind
• 1975 – Farewell to the Farm
• 1975 – Seal Lullaby
• 1975 – Weary Lot Is Thine, A
• 1975 – Daffodils
• 1975 – Oh! Remember Me
• 1978 – Take O Take Those Lips Away
• 1978 – Take O Take Those Lips Away
• 1978 – Golden Slumber
• 1979 – When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
• 1979 – Trust
• 1979 – Game, The
• 1980 – Green Groweth the Holly
• 1980 – Good Night? Ah! No
• 1981 – Camel, The
• 1981 – Silver- Feathered Swan, The
• 1981 – For a Child
• 1981 – Sweet Afton
• 1981 – Content
• 1981 – Holy Innocents
• 1981 – Ring Out Wild Bells
• 1981 – Pack, Clouds Away
• 1981 – Lark Now Leaves His Wat’ry Nest, The
• 1981 – Rocking Carol
• 1981 – Why So Pale and Wane, Fond Lover?
• 1981 – Song Of Love, A
• 1981 – Day Before April, The
• 1981 – Come List and Hark!
• 1982 – Children’s Letters to God
• 1982 – Limericks, Limericks, Limericks
• 1982 – Spring
• 1982 – Commendation Of Music, The
• 1982 – Water Beetle, The
• 1982 – Drop, Drop Slow Tears
• 1982 – Falling Star
• 1982 – Tell Me No More
• 1982 – Of All the Souls
• 1982 – What Do We Plant
• 1982 – Angler’s Song, The
• 1982 – Two Songs
• 1982 – Three Thoughts to Ponder
• 1982 – I Have Been Here Before
• 1982 – Oh, Fair to See
• 1983 – Those Evening Bells
• 1983 – New Prince, New Pomp
• 1983 – Rainy Day, The
• 1983 – Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls, The
• 1984 – Splendour Falls, The
• 1984 – Riding Song
• 1984 – Splendour Falls, The
• 1984 – Three Songs for Male Chorus
• 1984 – Curfew
• 1984 – It Was a Lover and His Lass
• 1984 – Silent to Thee
• 1984 – Hear the Glad Tidings
• 1985 – Ah, Fading Shadow
• 1985 – Rose, The
• 1985 – To the Glory Of The Father
• 1985 – Hark the Vesper Hymn Is Stealing
• 1985 – Wind Through the Olive Trees
• 1985 – Three Madrigals for Male Voices
• 1985 – Hark the Vesper Hymn Is Stealing
• 1985 – Under the Greenwood Tree
• 1986 – Gather Your Rosebuds
• 1986 – Requiem
• 1986 – Poor Mariners
• 1986 – Poor Mariners
• 1986 – Gather Your Rosebuds
• 1987 – Foresters, Sound the Cheerful Horn
• 1987 – Tho’ I Am Young
• 1987 – Gloria
• 1988 – My Love Asleep Doth Lie
• 1988 – Once to Every Man and Nation
• 1989 – Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
• 1989 – Sweet Are the Thoughts
• 1997 – Falling Star