Annual American Composers Update
Marilyn J. Ziffrin
Marilyn J. Ziffrin** lives and works
in a small New Hampshire village. The New London, NH
Baptist Church has commissioned a multi-movement work
to celebrate freedom, with soloists, the adult choir,
children's choir, various instrumentalists, and organ.
On Oct. 23, 1999, she was guest composer at a celebration
of New Hampshire history through music and drama, sponsored
by the Southern New Hampshire Community School of the
Arts. She has been appointed to the Music Teachers National
Association's National Composer Commission Advisory
Committee.
Premieres
Pianist Donna Stoering premiered Recurrences
at Adams Memorial Opera House, Oct. 23, 1999 in Derry,
NH.
Performances
On the same program, Stoering and George
Lopez performed the piano duet Yankee Hooray.
Mezzo-soprano Amy Schneider, violist Michael Zaretsky,
and harpsichordist Marina Minkin presented the song
cycle Haiku, Jan. 15, 1999 at Boston (MA) Univ.
Accompanied by pianist Anne Franciose Perrault, mezzo-soprano
D'Anna Fortunato sang Three Songs of the Trobairitz
at the Longy School of Music, in Cambridge, MA, Jan.
17, 1999.
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