Annual American Composers Update
Libby Larsen
SAI Honorary Member Libby Larsen** received an
Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters. A
Washington Post review, June 23,
2000, of her song cycle
My Antonia called her "imaginative
and lyrical." And the Summer 2000 ACDA Newsletter, in
a review of a
Missa Gaia recording, wrote "Ms.
Larsen's treatment of word and music is clearly of a caliber
which sets a high standard for other contemporary composers."
Premieres
Christopher Seamans conducted Pamela Frank and the Rochester
Philharmonic in the first performance of
Still Life
with Violin, July 26, 2000 at the Bravo! Vail (CO)
Valley Music Festival. The Ravinia Festival included the
premiere of
Love After 1950, with mezzo-soprano
Susanne Mentzer and pianist Craig Rutchberg, Aug. 7, 2000
in Chicago, IL. On Oct. 25, 2000 in Boston, MA, pianist
Virginia Eskin presented
Mephisto Rag.
My Antonia
was sung first by Jane Dressler, soprano, accompanied
by Linda Jones, piano, June 19, 2000 in Brownville, NE.
Performances
Under the baton of Marin Alsop, the Colorado Symphony
played
Solo Symphony (Symphony No. 5), July 3,
2000. The King's Singers, conducted by Philip Brunelle,
sang
Billy the Kid, Apr. 7, 2000 in Minneapolis,
MN.
Publications
Eleanor Roosevelt;
Oxford
University Press.
Kathleen, As She Was;
E.
C. Schirmer.
Recordings
String Symphony -- Symphony No. 4; Songs of Light;
Love Songs from Letters; all by the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra, Joel Revzen, conductor, with Benita Valente,
soprano;
Koch
International Classics Libby Larsen.
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