Annual American Composers Update
Margaret Brouwer
Margaret Brouwer has been awarded the
Cleveland Arts Prize in composition. In the Sept. 1999
awards ceremony at the Cleveland Museum of Art, her
music was hailed as "lyrical, accessible, powerful and
moving, . . . meaning most of all to communicate directly
... always engaging -- satisfying to listener and performer
alike." Says
American Record Guide of the her
Crosswinds CD, "Brouwer has a gift for both lyricism
and humor. . . . beautiful work, attractive and interesting."
Fanfare praises the works as showing " plenty
of invention in addition to their beauty and craft."
Brouwer was in residence at the MacDowell Colony in
May and June 1999. Upcoming commissions include a percussion
concerto for Evelyn Glennie and the Seattle Symphony;
and the fanfare for the Women's Philharmonic, which
will also be performed by the American Composer's Orchestra
and by the Lubbock Symphony. She can be reached by e-mail
at
mxb42@po.cwru.edu.
Premieres
Sizzle (2000) was commissioned and introduced by
the Women's Philharmonic, Apo Hsu Conductor, as part of
The Fanfares Project in San Francisco, CA, Sept. 30, 2000.
In 2000, Beverley Rinaldi commissioned and premiered
Winter
Dream (2000), a vocalise for soprano and piano, at
The Cleveland Institute of Music, Mar. 5, and then sang
it again at the Interlochen (MI) Arts Camp, July 8.
Under
the Summer Tree . . . (1999), commissioned by the
Fortnightly Musical Club of Cleveland, was heard first
with Kathryn Brown (Movement I), at The Cleveland Institute
of Music, Feb. 2, 1999; and with Kelly Horsted (Movements
II and III), at Greenwich House Arts, in New York, NY,
Apr. 6, 2000.
Performances
In 2000,
Sonata for Horn and Piano (1996), funded
by the Horn Consortium Commissioning Group, was played
by Richard King, of the New Music Ensemble, at the Cleveland
Institute of Music, Apr. 7, and by Carol Pensing, Apr.
8.
Recordings
Chamber music;
CRI
Crosswinds CD 821, June 1999.
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