Annual American Composers Update
Margaret Vardall Sandresky
Margaret Vardall Sandresky, of Winston-Salem, NC, Professor
Emerita of Composition and Theory at Salem Coll., is active
as a composer and organist. She has received a 1999 ASCAP
Standards Award, and also a commission from the Salem
Congregation of the Moravian Church for an organ prelude
and two anthems for their Watch Night Lovefeast, to be
performed Dec. 31, 1999.
Premieres
In 1998, works premiered in Winston Salem included
Five
Sacred Dances, with Donald Armitage, organ, at Augsburg
Lutheran Church, Mar. 8;
Sonata for Viola and Piano,
with Arnold Steinhardt and Barbara Lister-Sink, at Salem
Coll. (May);
Her Children Rise Up and Call Her Blessed,
with Sandresky, organist, at the First Baptist Church
on Mother's Day; and
O God, My Heart is Fixed,
for baritone and organ, with John Williams and Sandresky,
at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Sept. 20. In 1999,
Songs
of a Nomad Flute, for flute and orchestra, was presented
in its flute/piano version at Salem Coll., with Debra
Reuter-Pivetta and Ruskin Cooper (May), and then in its
orchestral version at the Fourth International Festival
of New Music for Orchestra, in Olomouc, The Czech Republic,
with Petr Hladek and the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra,
under Toshiyuki Shimada (June).
Performances
1999 performances of
L'homme Arme Organ Mass occurred
at the Second International Festival of Women Composers/American
Guild of Organists meeeting at the University of Florida,
in Gainesville, with organist Frances Norbert (Mar.),
and at the Washington National Cathedral with Eliza Beth
Harrison (Sept.). At the Second Organ Festival, Ray Ebert
and the Market Street Brass played
Sinfonia for Organ
and Brass, Nov. 1999 at the West Market Street Methodist
Church, in Greensboro, NC. At the Unitarian Church, in
Washington, CA, organist Sandra Soderlund presented
Weil
die Worte Wahrheit Sind and
Toccata: Veni Creator
Spritus, Mar. 8, 1998.
Sonata for Viola and Piano
was heard in 1999 at the University of Kentucky at Richmond,
with William Goodwin and Haywood Mickens (Mar.), and at
The Foothills Festival, with Elizabeth Oakes and David
Shimoni, at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art,
in Winston-Salem (Aug). Works performed in and around
Winston-Salem in 1998 included the
Gloria from
L'Homme Arme Organ Mass, with John Mitchener, at
Salem Coll. and the Troy, NC Trinity Methodist Church
(spring); and
Chorales for the Feast of the Annunciation,
for organ, flute, and clarinet, with Margaret Mueller,
Frances Kohut, and Jeff Murph, at St. Paul's Episcopal
Church, Sept. 20.
Publications
I am the True Vine, anthem for SSATB a cappella
choir;
Paraclete
Press, spring 1998.
Trio II, violin, cello,
and piano;
Hildegard
Publishing Co., late 1999 or early 2000.
Recordings
Songs of a Nomad Flute, for flute and orchestra;
Vienna Modern
Masters, Dec. 1999.
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