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Special Song Exults - headlined Ruth Shubert's article "Yesterday's EarthWalk event closed with the Total Experience Gospel Choir and the Northwest Girlchoir singing a song composed for the event, "We are Here We Care," by Dwight Beckmeyer. Proud Parents were included among the several hundred people at the Seattle Center, and some were drawn by that extra incentive.
"It's really important for the kids to be involved and hear the concerns."said Sandy Miller, whose 12-year-old daughter, Marian, is in the Girlchoir. "I think all of these things sort of become part of their consciousness." she added. - Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Singer Songwriter, Dwight Beckmeyer enjoys a rich and varied musical career ranging from the classical concert stage as a soloist and accompanist with choirs and orchestras to musical theatre, gospel and rock music.
Acclaimed singer/songwriter, Dwight Beckmeyer has just released 10 new songs on his debut album, Stars in Your Eyes featuring songs such as Rock Show (about going to the rock show only to find its a Gem and Mineral show) Banjo On My Knee (in which the Snohomish River flood becomes a metaphor for a doomed relationship) Right Foot Yellow ("She plays Twister with her sister and it ties me in knots when they get all twisted with there hands on the dots...")
For 16 years, Dwight was the Northwest Girlchoir’s pianist, touring Europe, South America and Japan and recording two CDs Echo in My Soul and Inscription of Hope (Arsis label). His song the Salmon, Eagle, and the Forest commissioned for Earthwalk 2002, performed by the Northwest Girlchoir was proclaimed by Ruth Schubert of the Seattle Post Intelligencer to be “Exultant!”
Dwight’s Theater Musician credits include Associate Music Director/Keyboardist for Sunday in the Park With George, Miss Saigon, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Pippin, and Keyboardist for Catch Me If You Can, Memphis, Jersey Boys, Edward Scissorhands, and the Wedding Singer (5th Avenue Theatre); keyboardist for Wicked, Altar Boys, Spamalot, A Chorus Line and Annie (Paramount Theatre). This January, Dwight was also the Music Director/Pianist at New York’s 92nd St. Y, in Rodgers &… a review of the music of Richard Rodgers and his collaborators.
Highlights as a piano soloist include Dwight’s performances with the Bellevue Philharmonic (Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue) the Philharmonia Northwest (Mendelssohn’s Concerto in Gm), the Everett Symphony (Grieg’s Concerto in Am), the Thalia Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven’s Concerto No. 2) and the Port Gardner Bay Chamber Orchestra (Mozart’s Concerto in Eb major K. 449) He also played synthesizer for the Seattle Symphony’s pops concert, "Great Loves of the Silver Screen" performing The Bride of Frankenstein.
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