The Hartenshield Group, Inc

March, 2002. In December, Delaware composer William Copper completed two English Satires, including a setting of John Donne's "Song" under the title of Pentamic Iambeter. The text and more information may be found on the publisher's web pages at www.hartenshield.com/pentamic.html.

Acalanes High School conducted by Bruce C. Lengacher sponsored the completion and will premiere the work on the Acalanes Concert Choir spring concert.

The other work in the set is "The Oubit", a setting of a poem by English poet Charles Kingsley.

William Copper, of Wilmington, a composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal music, attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Eastman School of Music, and the Krakow Poland Higher School of Music. His composition teachers were some of the most well-known contemporary composers in the world, including George Crumb, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Joseph Schwantner.

Bruce C. Lengacher, conductor of ECCO, received a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Arts in Education from San Francisco State University. He has studied with George Attarian, Byron McGilvray, and Rodney Eichenburger. He currently serves as the director of choral activities at Acalanes High School in Lafayette, is an adjudicator for the Bay Section of California Music Educators Association, and he has been the General/Classroom Music and Choral Representative for the Bay Section of CMEA. Bruce has worked with Ragazzi Boys Chorus, the Peninsula Girls Chorus and was a founding member of the San Jose Choral Project, now the Choral Project.

More information about William Copper may be found in his publisher's bio.