Annual American Composers Update

Elliott Schwartz's Kaleidoscope, for violin, contrabassoon, and piano, premiered at Festival Miami as part of an all-Schwartz concert at the University of Miami, Nov. 1999. At the Cleveland (OH) Chamber Symphony Halloween concert, Edwin London led the first performance of Jack O'Lantern, Oct. 2000. Under the baton of Richard Hoenich, Kenneth Rudnofsky and the New England Conservatory Orchestra introduced Mehitabel's Serenade, for solo saxophone and orchestra, Dec. 2000 in Boston.

The Longitude New Music Ensemble gave a performance of Spectrum, for French horn, cello, and tuba, at the Longy School of Music, Feb. 2000 in Cambridge, MA. The American Music Festival, held at the Museum of Modern Art in Strasbourg, France, included Vienna Dreams, for viola, clarinet, and piano, Apr. 2000. As part of the Composers Concordance Series, Tapestry, for piano, violin, and cello, was heard. A program at Conway Hall, in London, England, featured the Kreutzer Quartet in Schwartz's string-quartet work Bellagio Variations, July 2000. Music performed at an all-Schwartz concert at the Kristinsson Conservatory, in Reykjavik, Iceland, were Jet Piece, Music for Audience and Soloist, A Garden for RKB, and Souvenir.

Tapestry; piano, violin, and cello; Equinox; orchestra; both by AMP/G. Schirmer. Timepiece 1794; chamber orchestra; Carl Fischer, Inc. Butterfly; solo flute; Falls Hills Press.

Chiaroscuro, for symphonic band; Aerie, for six flutes; Reflections, for six bassoons; Innova Recordings, Inc. CD 517. Equinox, for orchestra; Tapestry, for piano, violin, and cello; Vienna Dreams, for clarinet, viola, and piano; Rows Garden, for woodwind quintet; all on New World Records CD 80582-2.

• SAI's Composers Bureau Online.