Premieres
The first public performance of SAI National Arts
Associate Frank Graham Stewart's Fantasy for Orchestra
(1994) was given by the Huxford Symphony Orchestra,
Carlton McCreery, Music Director, at the University
of Alabama, April 5, 2001. Saxophone Quartet
was presented by the Lenoir Sax Ensemble, at the United
Methodist Church, in Brevard, NC, February 16, 2001.
Performances
On June 27, 2001, Saxophone Quartet was played
and discussed at a saxophone workshop in Spruce Pine,
on the Blue Ridge Parkway, directed by James Houlik
from the North Carolina School of the Arts, in Winston-Salem.
The Brevard College Pre-Graduation Concert by the
Symphonic Winds, conducted by David Kirby, included
The First Day, May 5, 2001.
Recordings
Concerto for B-Flat Clarinet and Orchestra
(1994); Richard Stoltzman and the Warsaw (Poland)
National Philharmonic Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor;
MMC Recordings MMC 2078 CD. Overture Brevis
(1997); New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
conductor; Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
(1997); Karen Dreyfus and the Silesian Philharmonic
Orchestra, Jerzy Swoboda conductor; Fantasy for
Orchestra; Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Schwarz,
conductor; Concerto for B-Flat Clarinet and Orchestra;
Stoltzman and the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra,
Manahan, conductor; Scherzo for Orchestra (1998);
Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Valek, conductor;
all on MMC Recordings MMC 2102 all-Stewart CD, end
of 2001.
