as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2

Arthur Berger

WGBH celebrated Arthur Berger's 90th birthday on May 15, 2002, with a full hour radio broadcast of Berger's music.In October 2002, Geoffrey Burleson gave an all-Berger piano music recital at Brandeis University in Waltham MA. Many more concerts featuring Berger's music have been scheduled for the 2002-03 season. Also planned is the release of a CD of Berger's piano music performed by Burleson on the Centaur label, and publication by C. F. Peters Corp. of Three One-Part Inventions, for piano. The University of California Press released his book Reflections of an American Composer in November 2002. For more information, contact Rosalie Calabrese Management, P.O. Box 20580 Park West Station, New York, NY 10025-1521, telephone (212) 663-6620, fax (212) 663-5941, E-Mail: rcmgt@yahoo.com, or visit Berger's website at www.arthurberger.com.

Premieres

A program of the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, under Scott Wheeler, featured Pamela Dellal in the first performance of Ode of Ronsard, for mezzo-soprano, flute, cello, and piano, November 17, 2002, at the First and Second Church, in Boston MA. Burleson introduced Scherzando, for piano, October 19, 2002, at Brandeis University

Performances

On April 21, 2002, a Collage New Music program at Harvard University, in Cambridge MA, included Septet. Quartet for Winds was on a Minnesota Orchestra Chamber Music Series program, May 2, 2002, at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. The Zamir Chorale sang Tov L'Hodos at Jordan Hall, in Boston MA, June 9, 2002. At the Moiseivitsch Series of the Music Festival of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton NY, pianist Lawrence Gingold performed Birthday Cards, July 15, 2002. Heard at a Speculum Musicae concert at Merkin Hall, in New York NY, was Collage III, October 14, 2002.

Further Information

• 2000-2001 American Composers Update
• 1999-2000 American Composers Update
• 1998-1999 American Composers Update
• 1997-1998 American Composers Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online