On April 29, 2001, Marilyn J. Ziffrin was honored
by the Friends of Chamber Music, Inc, of the Quad
Cities, comprising Moline and Rock Island, IL, and
Davenport and Bettendorf, IA, with a concert of her
music.
Premieres
Works heard first at the concert were Two Movements
for Woodwind Quintet, with The Classique Quintette,
and Lines and Spaces for Brass Quintet, with
the Quad City Brass Quintet. Cantata for Freedom premiered
October 22, 2000, with an adult choir, children's
choir, soloists, flute, trumpet, percussion, organ,
and narrator, Jane Ann McSwiney, director, at the
First Baptist Church, in N. London, NH. At Pilgrim
Congregational Church, in Lexington, MA, Charles H.
Abbott, violin, and B. Z. Abbott, alto saxophone,
presented the first movement of Abbott's Duo,
June 10, 2001.
Performances
Other compositions performed at the Friends of Chamber
Music program were Suite for Piano (1996),
with Joan Trapp; Three Songs of the Trobairitz,
with soprano Sue Clark accompanied by Trapp; OBOSOLO,
with solo oboist Susan Doye; The Little Prince,
a suite for clarinet and bassoon, with Theresa Hupp
and Susan Bawden; Toccata and Fugue for Organ,
with Lucille Perley; and Yankee Hooray, with
pianists Kathleen Kelly and Tewanta Yerington. In
Concord, NH, during 2001, works heard included Soliloquy,
from Captain Kidd, with baritone Mark Andrew
Cleveland and pianist Catherine Dornin, at Concord
Community Music School, February 9; and Three Songs
of the Trobairitz, with mezzo-soprano Fortunato
and pianist John McDonald, at St. Paul's School, April
8.
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