Jackson
Kevin Myars
May
28 2002
Age
38, Dallas, AIDS
partner: Roger Stabel (shown in clipping
below)
Positive Voices,
MCC
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IDENTIFICATION AND
BIO:
Composer, Choral Conductor and Arranger, Church Musician and Accompanist
( from the site ArtistsWithAids.org......now
only found within the internet archives site....
text only appears.....so I grabbed all they had)
NAME: Jackson
Kevin Myars
BIRTH DATE/LOCATION:
October 24, 1963, McKinney, Texas
DEATH DATE/LOCATION:
May 28, 2002, Dallas, Texas
Course work in music at University
of Texas, Austin.
Jackson Myars was the founder and
director of Positive Voices, a choir of HIV-positive men associated
with The Cathedral of Hope, Metropolitan Community Church in Dallas,
Texas. The ensemble toured in the Southwest, made two CD recordings
and received a nomination for a 1997 GLAMA (Gay & Lesbian American
Music Awards) in the choral music category.
Jackson Myars died of AIDS in Dallas
at the age of 38 on May 28, 2002.
—Joseph Dalton
WORKS:
CHORAL
Dance In The Spirit
for: SATB and piano
date: 1999
Find A Way
for: TBB and piano
date: 1999
Gloria
for: SSAA and piano
date: 1999
published: Yelton Rhodes
God Was There
for: SATB and piano
date: unknown
published: Yelton Rhodes
(God Is) Greater Than AIDS
for: TTB and piano
date: 1996
note: AIDS-themed work
recorded: Positive Voices, Until It's Over
The Medication Minuet
for: men's chorus
date: unknown
recorded: Positive Voices, cassette
Make My Life A Song
for: SATB and piano
date: 1999
Rest and Peace, A Lullabye
for: TTBB or SSAA and piano
date: 1996
published: Yelton Rhodes
So Great A Cloud of Witnesses
for: solo voice, SATB, piano
date: unknown
published: Yelton Rhodes
note: AIDS-themed work
recorded: Positive Voices, Until It's Over
The Songs of The Soul
for: TTBB or SSA a cappella
date: 1999
published: Yelton Rhodes
Standing At The Gates
for: SATB and piano
date: 2001
published: Yelton Rhodes
note: AIDS-themed work
recorded: Positive Voices, Windows of Hope
Star of Wonder, Star of Night
for: TTBB and piano
date: 1999
published: Yelton Rhodes
Too Many Silent Nights
for: TTBB and piano
date: 1995
note: AIDS-themed work
recorded: Positive Voices, Windows of Hope
Until It's Over
for: TTBB and piano
date: 1995
published: Yelton Rhodes
note: AIDS-themed work
recorded: Positive Voices, Until It's Over
Walk Through
for: TTB and piano
date: 1995
note: AIDS-themed work
ARRANGEMENTS:
Numerous arrangements for men's chorus
including almost all of the arrangements on the CD Until It's Over.
UNCOMPLETED WORKS:
None
WRITINGS:
Unknown
DISCOGRAPHY:
Windows Of Hope, Positive Voices, CD (1995).
Until It's Over: Music of Hope for Everyone Living with HIV/AIDS,
Positive Voices, CD (1997). Both discs available through Positive
Voices website and Cathedral of Hope bookstore.
Medication Minuet, Positive Voices (cassette). Available through Positive
Voices website.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"Leather and Grace: Choir Director
Jackson Myars Knows How to Crack the Whip" by Frank Trejo, POZ
Magazine, October 1996.
PERFORMING RIGHTS AFFILIATION:
None
RESOURCES:
Sources of Hope Bookstore
Cathedral of Hope
5910 Cedar Springs
Dallas, TX 75235
(214) 351-1901
www.cathedralofhope.com
Yelton Rhodes Music
1717 North Ogden Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90046-2129
1-888-4yrmusic
www.yrmusic.com
www.positivevoices.com
MUSICAL EXECUTOR:
Roger Stabel (companion)
5000 Cedar Springs Road #107
Dallas, TX 75235
(214) 526-7402
JacksonRog@aol.com
OTHER CONTACTS:
Unknown
ARCHIVES:
With Roger Stabel.
All choral scores and Positive Voices CDs in Estate Project archives.
Jackson was in the 1995
IML contest, and placed in the Top 20
So he gets to walk the stage twice
The last shot shows him in that portion, with less leather
Taken
from a YouTube video,
what a fluke to even find this
