Annual American Composers Update
Elizabeth Lauer
Elizabeth Lauer is a resident
of Wilton, CT. For spring and summer 2000, her fourth
consecutive year, she has been engaged to serve as program
annotator for the South Shore Music, Inc. chamber-music
series, in Westport, CT. Recently, she has spoken in Fairfield
County to the Schubert Club Professional Development group,
about teaching 20th-century music to beginning students
of all ages, Oct. 19, 1999; and to the Professional Women's
Collective, about "The Music Business and the Business
of Music," Jan. 10, 2000. She will be giving a piano recital
Mar. 20, 2000 at the Donnell Library, New York, NY, including
works by Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Poulenc, and Granados,
as well as her
Dextravaganza.
Premieres
In 1999, pianist Margaret Mills commissioned and premiered
A Bouquet of Bagatelles, a collection of six short
pieces, at the First Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, CT,
Nov. 21, and then at Weill Hall, New York, NY, for the
25th anniversary of Mills's debut at the hall (then called
Carnegie Recital Hall), Dec. 7. Ensemble Decadanse will
introduce
Quatorze Miniminiscules faciles, for
flute, clarinet, cello, and piano, on two concerts in
Lunel, France, spring 2000.
Performances
Dextravaganza, a 10-minute work for piano, right
hand alone, will be heard in 2000 at a "Twentieth Century
Unlimited" program at Ogden House, in Wilton, Jan. 16;
and on Lauer's recital at the Donnell Library, New York,
NY, Mar. 20, 2000. On Dec. 3, 1999, she played two of
her piano rags,
Fleur de Lou and
Magnolia,
at the Wilton Kiwanis Club annual Christmas program. On
Nov. 4-6, 1999, Genevieve Chinn and Allen Brings presented
selections from
It Takes Two . . ., for one piano,
four-hands, at two concerts in Lake Saranac, NY.
Recordings
That Nutritious Baby of Mine and
Sigh No More,
Ladies, the Concorra (CT) Choral Artists, Richard
Coffey, conductor;
Capstone
Records CD of vocal and choral pieces by Connecticut
Composers, Inc. members.
Further Information
