Music by Stephen MelILlo
Concept and Lyrics by Cindy Paulos
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Love Conquers All is an inspiring lyrical story of the miracle of love. There are uplifting instrumental and musical pieces, featuring Grammy Award winning Darlene Koldenhoven, Stephen Melillo, and spoken word pieces by Cindy Paulos.
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THE INSPIRING SINGLE, LOVE CONQUERS ALL, THE GIFT
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Love Conquers All, the Gift.” is a piece written with kids in mind. We eventually invited vocal students from the Smithfield HS and MS Choruses to take part.Roland Stuppin, the ‘James Dean’ of Recording, who was the ONLY guy to do this recording!
So we flew him in from Germany. Roland had a carry-on piece of luggage with $50,000 of mics and equipment in it! Despite his genius and great recording tools, we STILL had to work around school bells, changing classes, morning announcements, the air conditioner, and all within a 2-hour window. But the result is a Beautiful song that really only KIDS could share with us. |
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THE SMITHFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL CHORUS IS OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS IN GRADES 7 & 8 AS A YEAR-LONG ELECTIVE. THE SMITHFIELD HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS IS COMPRISED OF STUDENTS IN GRADES 9 - 12 ENROLLED IN CLASS EACH SEMESTER. CHORUS STUDENTS PERFORM A VARIETY OF PROGRAMS AND CONCERTS EACH YEAR FOR THE LOCAL SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY. SMITHFIELD CHORUS
Chorus with Roland Stuppin and Stephen Melillo 
It’s the simple Idea that LOVE Conquers All.
The Single, “Love Conquers All, the Gift,” is coming soon! Then soon after that, the Full Album will be released, “Love Conquers All, When Heaven Merges With Earth.” Many thanks to the kids and their Teachers, Mrs. Kathryn West, Mr. Paul Putnam, and to Ms. Buggs, the principal of Smithfield Middle School. Man, with principals like her, I would have stayed in Teaching. |
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Stephen MelilloA world-renowned composer, Stephen’s more than 1310 works include 4 symphonies, several concerti and over 45-hours of Music for Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium™. Stephen’s Symphony IIII: Lightfall, was nominated for the Pulitzer and Nemmers Prize in Music. Winner of three 2009 Telly & Ava Awards for his 2005 Visualized Concert, Kakehashi: That We Might Live, Stephen's concert-version of that work was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. A fourth Telly Award was given for “Best Use of Music” in the 2019 feature film, One Little Finger produced by Rupam Sarmah. A fifth Telly Award included Stephen’s work on the 2019 Reckoning of Darkness produced by Christopher Kulikowski. Stephen’s 15 feature film scores include the Oscar-nominated 12:01PM and the Jonathan Heap horror thriller, The Unwilling. Stephen has been a recipient of the ASCAP Concert Awards each year since 1992. STORMWORKS, Stephen’s pioneering, self-publishing entity, has gone from 0 to many thousands of worldwide renderings since 1992 simply by word-of-mouth. He has 42 Albums and 9 books on varied streaming services and novels, including Only for Now, Ahab, a Love Story, the prequel to Melville’s Moby Dick, and most recently the sequel, Death to Moby Dick, a Love Story.
Complete BIO on stephenmelillo.com: https://stephenmelillo.com/bio WIKI ENTRY at stormworld.com: https://stormworld.com/wikipedia-entry-with-images Digital Libretti here: https://stephenmelillo.com/digital-libretti Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/stephenmelillo Amazon EDIT PAGE: https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/profile RSS FEED LINK: http://stephenmelillo.com/blogs/stories-stormlog.rss |
CINDYPAULOS.COM
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rev. Dr. Cindy PaulosRev. Dr. Cindy Paulos is a music producer, author/poet, lyricist, composer, producer, artist and longtime Radio Announcer on multiple stations for KAOI RADIO in Maui, Hawaii, and KUOS in Sedona which she co-founded. She has hosted the longest running talk show on Maui for 30 years. She loves creating CD’s and collaborating on inspirational projects with fellow musicians. She was honored to be awarded UNESCO Center for Peace announces 2020 Cross-Cultural & Peace Crafter Award Laureates
She received the 2021 Gandhi Peace Award and was named Outstanding Metaphysician and Media Personality by the Harvest Convention. Cindy is a voting member of NARAS (Grammys) and HARA. Eight of her CD's have been submitted for Grammy Consideration. She has had 6 nominations for a Hoku by the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts: Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. She has been nominated four times for the Hollywood Music and Media Award (HMMA). She also was nominated for COVR award, and received a Global Music Award and Akadamia Music Award. She writes and meditates every day and is a Spiritual teacher on Insight Timer with 4,000 followers and 4,011 plays per week on pieces submitted |
DARLENE KOLDENHOVEN
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What sets GRAMMY® Award winner and three-time nominee Darlene Koldenhoven apart from the rest? It could be her worldwide 1.5 billion viewing audience on PBS as the memorable soprano soloist in Yanni, Live at the Acropolis; her work in the war-torn jungles of Sierra Leone where she coached musicians and singers whom she took on tour in the US and Canada; production vocal coach/music director/tambourine-waving choir nun in both Sister Act films with Whoopi Goldberg; or her recent donation of time and performances in India with U.N. humanitarian ambassador and Grammy Winning-composer Ricky Kej, for his concerts, videos, TEDx Talk, Shanti Samsara, to raise awareness of climate change and animal cruelty causes she holds dearly. Or . . . a hot shot debut at #4 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Albums Chart her first time out with a solo piano album week of May 29, 2021, or being the first-ever inductee into the Indie Music Hall of Fame at the Grammy Museum on 4/28/19.
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CATHERINE GEACH
Born in England, she began the Study of Violin and Classical Ballet at the age of 4, giving her first concert a year later. She won a Scholarship to study Violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London when she was 15, with Singing and Piano as her second studies. She studied Violin with Professors Maurice Hasson, Xue Wei and had Masterclasses with Professors Felix Andriewski (Yehudi Menuhin School) and Zakhar Brohn. She perfected her Singing Studies in Italy, as a Coloratura (Light Soprano) specializing in Early Music. In 1990 at the age of 18, she went to Cambodia, during the civil war, to compile a report on the Violation of Human Rights by the Khmer Rouge, to show the International Community that the Khmer Rouge should not be seated at the United Nations. She was allowed by the Cambodian Government to enter areas affected by War to document the devastation and suffering of the civilian population. For her documentation, “The Aid and War Report”, she was awarded the Bernard Brett Peace Bequest. Graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 1991, she returned to Cambodia in the same year and began teaching Violin at the University of Fine Arts. In 1994, during the civil war, she founded and built the Kampot Traditional Music School for Orphaned and Disabled Children - Khmer Cultural Development Institute, with the Vision and Mission of Reviving and Preserving Traditional Cambodian Music and Culture, for future generations of Cambodians, post-Khmer Rouge genocide, whilst caring for the most vulnerable of Children. She was director for over 10 years and as its Founder, she continues to help raise funds and assist her Cambodian colleagues with both Cultural and Childcare Programs. She has translated and edited a book on Cambodian Musical Instruments for UNESCO, published several articles about the Cambodian War in the Tablet Magazine, She was awarded the UNESCO Decade for Cultural Development (1995) and the Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award (New York, 1999). She has given lectures for UNESCO and at Oxford University. She works as a Concert Violinist and Soprano. Her Solo Album, “A Wish for Love for the World”, BAM Records, (Solo Violin Partitas & Sonatas of Bach and Sacred Sung Works of Saint Hildegard), was released in December 2021. HTTPS://MUSIC.AMAZON.COM/ARTISTS/B09GKJY1MW/CATHERINE-LOUISE-GEACH |
Roland stuppin
www.wind-records.com
Roland Stuppin began his musical education in Ravensburg, Germany, at the age of 5 on the piano, followed by guitar and clarinet. At 14 he began his training on the trombone. He first completed his studies (orchestral musician) at the Music College on the trombone and then worked as an instrumental teacher at various music schools and as an orchestra musician with the Deutsche Bläserphilharmonie (German Wind Philharmonic).
For several years he was a member of various orchestras and his experience as a musician under well- known composers and conductors had a decisive influence on his musical development.
In addition to an extra-occupational course in conducting wind orchestras, he also completed a state- certified course as a Recording Engineer. Mr. Stuppin is a member of the Association of German Sound Engineers and has received the right to use the professional title “Master of Sound Engineer” from this association.
In addition to CD recordings with his own recording studio for various publishers, well-known concert orchestras such as the Military Orchestra of the German Armed Forces, the Saxony Wind Philharmonic and the Luxembourg Military Orchestra have been among his clients for many years.
The love of music and the fascination for its potential impact determine his work with his studio WIND RECORDS located in Cloppenburg, Germany. Personal experience as a musician paired with technical know-how play a crucial role here. Every artist strives for his or her best performance. Roland Stuppin has the skill, expertise, and experience to implement the environment and the technology to do so.
For several years he was a member of various orchestras and his experience as a musician under well- known composers and conductors had a decisive influence on his musical development.
In addition to an extra-occupational course in conducting wind orchestras, he also completed a state- certified course as a Recording Engineer. Mr. Stuppin is a member of the Association of German Sound Engineers and has received the right to use the professional title “Master of Sound Engineer” from this association.
In addition to CD recordings with his own recording studio for various publishers, well-known concert orchestras such as the Military Orchestra of the German Armed Forces, the Saxony Wind Philharmonic and the Luxembourg Military Orchestra have been among his clients for many years.
The love of music and the fascination for its potential impact determine his work with his studio WIND RECORDS located in Cloppenburg, Germany. Personal experience as a musician paired with technical know-how play a crucial role here. Every artist strives for his or her best performance. Roland Stuppin has the skill, expertise, and experience to implement the environment and the technology to do so.
Wilson Solomon
Rising senior, Wilson Solomon, studies Music at the prestigious Governor’s School of the Arts in Virginia. With a concentration in Musical Theater, Wilson has high hopes of one day performing on Broadway. One day, he was downstairs singing “When I Fall in Love”. Bringing the phone downstairs, Cindy Paulos was asked to listen. That was it. Not only did Cindy love Wilson’s voice, but she said, ”My Mom used to listen to that song all the time.” Welcome aboard, Wilson!
SPENCER MELILLO
Born 24-minutes before the first building was hit on 11 September 2001, S. Spencer Melillo, built his first boat at age eleven. Now a rising junior at Virginia Tech, Spencer studies Naval Architecture with ambitions to design everything from Yachts to commercial ships. Also, a great Musician, Spencer plays trumpet with the Marching Virginians while being ranked #2 in Virginia Tech’s Ocean Engineering Major. |
SHAFER MELILLO With Two-Hearts-of-Gold and a ‘Zorba the Greek’ approach to Life, rising senior R. Shafer Melillo, plays in the Smithfield High School Concert, Marching and Jazz Bands. He’s a member of the National Honor Society, the 2022 Boys State from Virginia, and plays on the Varsity Football Team. With one of the best “ears” we’ve heard in years, he also doubles on French Horn and works as a bus boy in a local restaurant. Shafer wants to pursue a career in Medicine. |
