Annual American Composers Update

SAI National Arts Associate Wallace De Pue, retired as professor of music composition at Bowling Green (OH) State Univ. (BGSU), continues to teach part-time there, as well as composing and promoting his publishing business, Picardie Court Publications. In July 1999, he was notified of his 15th consecutive ASCAP award for music composition. In Jan. 2000, BGSU began using the third edition of his textbook Creative Music Theory Skills for teaching non-music and music majors. The book can also be used for self instruction. In 1999, performances of De Pue's arrangements included Sing dem Herrn (Praetorius 5-voice canon), with organist Daniel Boyle, at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Elmore, OH, Jan. 17; and Sing dem Herrn and Steven Foster's Camptown Races, both for TTBB choir, with the BGSU Men's Chorus Tour, R. D. Mathey, director, in Ada, OH and Wapokoneta, OH, Mar. 4.

Reverie, for two pianos, premiered at the First United Methodist Church, in Bowling Green, June 20, 1999, with George Bell and Gary Boucher.

At the same church, Coronation, for SATB choir, congregation, organ, and brass, was heard Mar. 28, 1999 with the church choir and instrumentalists, conducted by Richard Mathey.

True, Is it Really True?; Lawson-Gould Publishers (Warner Brothers Publications), 2000. A Christmas Quasi-Canon; two voices; An Old-Fashioned Christmas; two-voice canon with optional fiddle; both by Picardie Court Publications, 1999.

• SAI's Composers Bureau Online.
• SAI's Music for Young People section.
• Wallace De Pue's website.