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Annual American Composers Update
Donald Grantham
"I served as composer-in-residence at the University of Oklahoma, giving a forum, a master class, and a pre-concert lecture before a performance of my Southern Harmony, October 2-4, 2000. In February 2001, I was a guest composer of the Baton Rouge Symphony and delivered two pre-concert lectures."
Premieres
Donald Grantham's Farewell to Gray, commissioned by the West Point Band in honor of the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Military Academy, was introduced by the band, Lt. Col. David Dietrick, conductor, September 22, 2001. In 2001, Variations on an American Cavalry Song, for wind ensemble, was commissioned and premiered by the U.S. Army Field Band, Col. Finley Hamilton, conductor, February 1 in Columbia, MD, followed by a performance March 8 at the American Bandmasters Association Convention in Las Vegas, NV.
Performances
Southern Harmony, for wind ensemble, was heard at the Musashino Academia Musicae, in Tokyo; at the Association for Music in International Schools meeting in Berlin; and with the Capital Wind Symphony, in Washington, DC. Under Jerry Junkin, the Dallas (TX) Wind Symphony played Fantasy on Mr. Hyde's Song, for wind ensemble, February 6, 2000. The Midwest Band Convention, in Chicago, included Grantham's wind-ensemble work Kentucky Harmony, with the Grand Ledge High School Band, Michael Kaufmann, conductor. Performances of the woodwind quintet Wild Basin Music occurred with the Wild Basin Winds, August 18, 2001, in Dallas at the National Flute Convention, and October 8 and 11, 2000, in Austin, TX; and with the Knoxville (TN) Symphony Woodwind Quintet, February 15, 2001. On February 22 and 24, 2001, Timothy Muffitt conducted the Baton Rouge (LA) Symphony Orchestra in To the Wind's Twelve Quarters.
Publications
All works cited by Piquant Press.
Recordings
From the Diaries of Adam and Eve, for soprano, baritone, and chamber ensemble; Suzanne Ramo, David Small, and the Chamber Soloists of Austin; Gasparo Compact Discs, 2001.
Further Information
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