LAST OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EARLY BIRD PRICING FOR OUR 2025 SUMMER LYRE CONFERENCE!

The Board of the Lyre Association of North America is very excited to welcome master lyrist Christian Giersch from Germany to Copake, New York, where we will work together with the theme ‘Let the Tone Come Alive!’ during the five days of our upcoming August conference. Lyre players of all levels are encouraged to join us as we explore this theme together. This conference will be, in many ways, a preparation for the historic 100-year anniversary of the birth of the lyre that will be celebrated at our International Lyre Conference in Dornach, Switzerland in the summer of 2026. We are most fortunate this summer to have the opportunity to work directly with one of the master lyre teachers in Europe, who also happens to be one of the organizers of next summer’s international conference! For further details, see last week’s LANA blog. Register TODAY at the following link to still receive our EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT!

A beautiful, simple 10-part round for all levels of players!

Our guest lyre master teacher and composer, Christian Giersch, has gifted us a further piece of music that will form a part of the full group repertoire for our upcoming lyre conference. Adding to the several other pieces composed for the 2026 International Lyre Conference, participants in our upcoming Summer Lyre Conference will get to enjoy a sneak preview of this majestic 8-bar canon for lyres in 10 parts, which serves as the prelude for a powerful sung 3-part round on the text Unitas en Sonum Est, translated roughly from the Latin as “Unity in Sounding” All participants will find this glorious Canon and Round, which builds from a single line of eight tones to richly textured full harmony, to be both compelling and easily accessible for all!

Follow the link below to download the music: