Annual American Composers Update
Jeanne Singer
Jeanne Singer, who composed in her home studio in Manhasset,
NY, served as a free-lance composer and pianist. She received
her 21st ASCAP Award in 1999. For the 55th reunion of
the class of 1944, Barnard College invited her to present
a program of her music, June 4, 1999. Singer passed away
in June 2000.
Performances
From the Green Mountains, a trio for violin, clarinet,
and piano, was played Feb. 17, 1999 by Martha Knieren,
Mary Ellen Miller, and Sandra Dennis on one of the Bach's
Lunch Performances at CMSS Auditorium, in Springfield,
MA. On Mar. 16, 1999, The Hardwick Chamber Ensemble performed
Sonnet, for soprano, violin, and clarinet, and
To Stir a Dream, for soprano, clarinet, and piano,
at the Central Library, in Chesapeake, VA, with John Winsor,
clarinet; Jeanette Winsor,piano; Cindy Bryan, violin;
and Anita Lowry, soprano. In 1999, Singer's song cycle
Five Galgenlieder (poems by Christian Morgenstern)
was sung by Austin Miskell, tenor, accompanied by the
composer, on a Musinger Players concert at Great Neck
(NY) House, celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Great
Neck House programs, Mar. 14; at a Tuesday Morning concert
at the Community Church of Douglaston, NY, May 25; and
at a Locust Valley Library concert, Nov.21. Susan Stavrides,
Joseph DePalo, and Singer gave 1999 performances of
Recollections
of City Island, for oboe, clarinet, and piano, at
the Kosciusko Foundation, in New York, NY, on a concert
co-sponsored by New York Women Composers, Inc. & AVIVA
Players, May 4; and at Barnard College on an all-Singer
program, June 4. ASCAP's Foreign Royalties Distributions
in 1999 included six performances of
Suite for Horn
and Harp in Sweden and Australia.
Publications
Sweet Stacy Suite (revised):
Sephardic Dance,
Echoes From Spain, and
American Tune; violin,
clarinet, and piano; Frank E. Warren Music Service.
Recordings
Sweet Stacy Suite; From the Green Mountains, for
violin, clarinet, and piano;
Grandmother's Attic,
for flute, oboe, violin, and cello;
Recollections of
City Island, for oboe, viola, and piano;
Legend
for Flute and Piano; all by Slovak Chamber Players
members;
Tribute to Raoul Wallenberg, Part 1: To Be
Brave is All, for voice and orchestra; Miskell, tenor,
and the Slovak Radio Symphony;
Tribute to Raoul Wallenberg,
Part 2: Avenue of the Righteous, for voice and orchestra;
Miskell and the Moravian Philharmonic;
Nocturne for
Clarinet and Piano; DePalo and Singer;
Five Galgenlieder
("Gallows Songs" -- poems by Christian Morgenstern); Miskell,
tenor, and Singer, piano; all on
Master
Musicians Collective Jeanne Singer -- Of Times
Past MMC2088 CD, 1999.
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