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Annual American Composers Update
Walter S. Hartley
Premieres
SAI Friend of the Arts Walter S. Hartley's Concertino
No. 2 had its first performance for tuba and wind
ensemble, with Raymond Stewart and the Fredonia Wind
Ensemble, Paula Holcomb, conductor, November 16, 2000;
for tuba and piano, with Stewart and Hartley, February
13, 2001; and for bass saxophone and piano, with Leo
Potts and Jack Reidling, at California State University
at Long Beach, November 7, 2000. Heard first at SUNY
College at Fredonia were Dances for Three Alike Saxophones,
at the Rascher Quartet Workshop, July 19, 2001; Andante
for Saxophone Quintet (in memory of Sigurd Rascher),
with the Fredonia Saxophone Ensemble, Wildy Zumwalt,
director, April 3, 2001; Sacred Harmonies for Strings,
with the Fredonia College Chamber Orchestra, David Rudge,
conductor, April 2, 2001; and Sinfonia No. 14 for
Wind Ensemble, with the Fredonia Wind Ensemble,
led by Holcomb, November 16, 2000. Richard Myers conducted
the premiere of Celebration for Twelve Trombones
(in memory of Byron McCulloh), May 13, 2001, at the
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Pittsburgh, PA.
Performances
On November 17, 2000, at the University of Louisville
(KY), tenor saxophonist John Moore and pianist Krista
Wallace-Boaz presented Sonorities VII (1985),
Poem (1967) and Scherzino (1986). The Amherst
Saxophone Quartet played Suite for Saxophone Quartet
(1972), February 21-23, 2001, in Buffalo, NY. A Library
of Congress program featured Concerto for 2 Winds
(1957) with a wind ensemble conducted by Frederick Fennell,
May 19, 2001, in Washington, DC. Led by Mark Alan Taggart,
an ensemble performed Serenade for Saxophones (1991),
July 20, 2001, at Transylvania University, in Lexington,
KY.
Publications
Prelude, Cadenza, and Rondo; cello and piano;
Concertino No. 2; both by Wingert-Jones Music,
Inc.
Recordings
Dance Suite, for violin, alto saxophone, and
piano; Lawrence Gwozdz, Stephen Redfield, and Lois Leventhal;
Albany Records Troy 378. Concertino da Camera
(1994), for soprano saxophone and brass quintet; Michael
Jacobson and the Baylor University Brass Quintet; Equilibrium
Records EQ 30.
Further Information
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