Allan Blank
Premieres
2001 programs at Old Dominion University, in Norfolk ,VA, April 26, and at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond May 29, included the premieres of SAI National Arts Associate Allan Blank's Four Poems by Walt Whitman, with baritone Tod Fitzpatrick and pianist Charles Woodward; String Quartet: 1998 No. 1, with Vahn Armstrong, Amanda Gates Armstrong, Beverly Kane Baker, and Michael Daniels; and Trio for Flute, Violin, and Harpsichord, with Debra Wendells Cross, Vahn Armstrong, and Oksana Lutsyshyn. Stanley Hoffman and Eddy Kronengold presented Blank's Sonata for Violin and Piano April 24, 2001, at Christ and St. Stephen's Church, New York, NY. Heard first in 2001 at Old Dominion University, April 26, and at Virginia Commonwealth University, May 9, were The Pebble (text by Zbigniew Herbert) and To My Dear and Loving Husband (text by Ann Bradstreet), with mezzo-soprano Lisa Relaford Coston accompanied by Woodward at the piano.
Performances
Other works performed at the Old Dominion University and Virginia Commonwealth University programs were Knock on Wood, with percussionists Tim Bishop, Robert W. Cross, Scott Jackson, and John Lindberg; Playtime for Flute and Piano, with Debra Wendells Cross and Woodward; and Nocturne for Bassoon and Harp, with Steve Wilson and Barbara Chapman. In 2001, Three for Two, for clarinet and piano, was played by John Winsor and Jeanette Winsor at the Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia Beach, April 28; and by David Neithamer and Steve Harlos at the University of Oklahoma, June 16. A program at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, DC, featured Kathryn Honan-Carter, mezzo-soprano; Harold Robinson, bass viol; and Edward Newman, piano in Poems from the Holocaust, April 29, 2001.
Recordings
Around the Turkish Lady, for solo alto saxophone; Roland D. Dowdy, III; Arizona University Recordings America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, Vol. VII, AUR CD 3115.
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