Annual American Composers Update
Joel Feigin
Joel Feigin is Associate Professor of Music at the University
of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Already the winner
of a Speculum Musicae award,
Veranderungen, for
violin and piano, now has won a prize from the Auros Group
for New Music. A brochure of Feigin's works is available
from Rosalie Calabrese Management.
Premieres
Works heard first at the Moscow (Russia) Conservatory
included the world premiere of
Six Sonnets to Orpheus,
for mezzo-soprano and piano, Oct. 1998; and the Russian
premiere of Feigin's opera
Mysteries of Eleusis,
Mar. 15 and 20, 1999. On Jan. 12, 1999, Chamber Orchestra
Kremlin gave the first United States performance of
Mosaic
in Two Panels, for string orchestra, at UCSB.
Performances
In 1999, pianist Paul Berkowitz presented
Meditations
from Dogen #4 at Samarkand Retirement Village, Santa
Barbara, CA, Jan. 19; at The Maestro Foundation house
concert, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 6; at UCSB, Feb. 12; and
at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, Mar. 26.
The Santa Barbara Symphony played
Elegy, In Memoriam
Otto Luening, Jan. 23-24, 1999.
Veranderung,
for violin and piano, had 1999 performances at Brandeis
Univ., Waltham, MA, with the Auros Group for New Music,
Jan. 30; and at Cooper Union, New York, NY, with Speculum
Musicae, May 26. On Mar. 29, 1999, the Manhattan School
of Music Festival of 20th-Century Music included
Transience,
for oboe and percussion, in New York, NY.
Recordings
Nexus, for flute and piano;
North/South
Recordings Evocations, American Music from the
Moscow Autumn Festival CD 1017, 1999.
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