Annual American Composers Update
Dan Locklair
SAI Friend of the Arts Dan Locklair,
Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Wake
Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, also served as
Composer-in-Residence for the Montreal (Canada) Boys's
Choir Course of the Royal School of Church Music, Aug.
2000, and as a judge for the 1999-2000 Alienor International
Composition Competition Awards, Feb. 2000. In the summer
of 2000, he received his 20th consecutive ASCAP Award.
Current commissions are for an organ work for Fourth
Presbyterian Church, in Chicago; a TTBB choral work
for the New York (NY) Gay Men's Chorus; and for Jubilo,
a prelude for organ, commissioned by the American Guild
of Organists for the 2001 Regional Competitions for
Young Organists. Locklair is managed by Jeffrey James
Arts Consulting, in New York.
Premieres
The St. Peter's Episcopal Church Choir,
Benjamin Outen, organist and choirmaster, commissioned
and premiered St. Peter's Rock, an anthem for
SATB choir, organ and trumpet, in Charlotte, NC, Dec.
1999. In Aug. 2000, David Shimoni, piano; Rebecca Troxler,
flute; and Paige Riggs, cello, introduced Reynolda
Reflections, for flute, cello and piano, composed
with the assistance of a North Carolina Composer Fellowship
Award, at the Foothills Chamber Music Festival 2000
in Winston-Salem, with performances at Salem College,
and at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. The
Montreal Boys's Choir Course, led by John Scott and
Patrick Wedd, commissioned and presented Magnificat
and Nunc Dimittis (Montréal), for choir
and organ, Aug. 2000 at Christ Church Cathedral. Kevin
Bowen conducted the Wake Forest University Wind Ensemble
in the first performance of A Pilgrim's Lot,
Dec. 2000 in Winston-Salem. In New York, NY, in Jan.
2001, Pater Noster, a motet for SATB a cappella
choir, was sung first by the Choir of Men and Boys of
St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Gerre Hancock, organist
and choirmaster. At St. James Cathedral, in Toronto,
Canada, the Elmer Iseler Singers, under Lydia Admas,
gave the Canadian premiere of Holy Canticles,
for SSAATTBB a cappella choir, May 2000.
Performances
The St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
sang Brief Mass, for SSAATTBB a cappella choir,
at St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, England, June 2000.
At the Klementinum, in Prague, the Czech Republic, June
2000, Zofie Vokálková and Kathleen Scheide
played Sonata da Chiesa, for flute and organ.
Reynolda Reflections, a trio for flute, cello
and piano, received a performance from the Mallarmé
Chamber Players, in Durham, NC, Nov. 2000. Creation
Canticles, a song cycle for soprano and organ, was
heard with Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Donald Sutherland,
at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, in Baltimore,
MD, Oct. 2000. In June 2000, organist Florence Jowers
presented Rubrics at St. Stephan's Church, in
Vienna, Austria.
Publications
Jubilo; organ;
A Christmas
Carol; SATB a cappella choir; both by Ricordi (
Hal
Leonard Publishing Corp., distributor), June 2000.
Shepherds Rejoice; Christ Was Born in Bethlehem;
both for SATB a cappella choir;
En natus est;
motet for SSAATTBB choir and SA a cappella choir;
Gloria;
SATB divisi choir, brass octet, and percussion;
St.
Peter's Rock; anthem for SATB choir, trumpet, and
organ;
Magnificat and
Nunc Dimittis; SATB
choir and organ; all by Subito Music Corp. (
Theodore
Presser, distributor), May and July 2000.
Recordings
Movements from organbooks
Windows
of Comfort; Douglas Cleveland; Gothic Record (
Koch)
Celestial Fire CD.
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