Annual American Composers Update
Margaret Vardall Sandresky
"I now have a web site from the Living Music Foundation:
www.e-universe.com/lmfhome/Sandresky.htm.
I hope you will check it out. My CD
Songs of a Nomad
Flute, for solo flute and orchestra, is avilable from
C De Music, in Albany, NY. My newly published volume,
Five Sacred Dances, for organ solo is available
from
Wayne Leupold
Editions, of Colfax, NC, or through
ESC
Publishers, in Boston, MA."
Premieres
In May 2000 in Winston-Salem, NC, Margaret Vardall Sandresky's
Suite for Oboe and Harpsichord was heard first
at Davis Chapel, with Steven Jones and Rickey D. Johnson.
The service music for the 200th anniversary of the dedication
of the sanctuary of the Home Moravian Church, in Winston-Salem,
Nov. 2000, included the first performances of the prelude,
The Good Shepherd; introit,
Let the Little Children;
anthems
Behold, I Stand at the Door, for SATB choir,
string quartet, and organ,
Easter Carol, for SATB
choir, handbells, string quartet, and organ,
God Calling
Yet, for SATB choir, and
The Tabernacle of God,
for SATB choir and organ with tenor and cello solos; and
postlude,
Toccata -- Nun Danket.
Performances
Sandresky's
L'homme armé Organ Mass, heard
with Emma Lou Diemer as as part of a year-long Donne in
Musica (Women in Music) festival for the Vatican Jubilee
Year, at Rome's Basilica di St. Maria Sopra Minerva, July
4, 2000; also was played by Kimberly Marshall, at the
National American Guild of Organists meeting in Seattle,
WA. In the summer of 2000, the St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Children's Choir toured Wales with the composer's anthem
Turtle Dove. Margaret Mueller performed
Organ
Sonata on several recitals this past year. Sandresky
presented
Ubi Caritas, for organ, Oct. 2000 at
Knollwood Baptist Church.
Publications
Five Sacred Dances;
Wayne
Leupold Editions Complete Organ Works of Margaret
Sandresky, Vol. 4.
Recordings
L'homme armé Organ Mass; Marshall;
Loft
Recordings reissue
Divine Euterpe LRCD-1021.
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