Annual American Composers Update
William Mayer
The New York premiere of William Mayer's opera
A Death
in the Family was covered in articles in the
New
York Times and
New York Post newspapers.
Premieres
A Death in the Family had its first New York performance
at the Manhattan School of Music, conducted by David Gilbert.
Under the baton of Edwin London, the Cleveland (OH) Chamber
Symphony introduced the chamber-orchestra version of
Of
Rivers and Trains. Recent world premieres in New York,
NY included
Zoom-Bah, with soprano Heidi Grant
Murphy and the Auréole Trio, at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art;
Summer Glints, for flute, oboe,
string quartet, and harpsichord, with the Queens Chamber
Band, at Merkin Hall; and
Unlikely Neighbors, with
the North-South Consonance, Max Lifchitz conducting.
Performances
With narrator Robert Sherman, the Bronx Arts Ensemble
performed
Good King Wenceslas (based on the A.
A. Milne text).
First and Last Song was on the
program of Downtown Music Productions, in New York, NY.
Robert De Cormier led a choral group in
Three Madrigals
and
Counterpoint. Under Harold Rosenbloom, the
New York Virtuoso Singers sang
The Negro Speaks of
Rivers (poem by Hughes).
Recordings
A Death in the Family; Manhattan School of Music
Opera Theater, Gilbert, conductor;
Albany
Records.
Zoom-Bah, for soprano, flute, viol,
and harp; Murphy and Auréole;
Koch
International Classics.
Distant Playing Fields
and
Enter Ariel; St. Lukes Chamber Orchestra;
Newport
Classics.
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