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The 2003 American Composers Update

as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2

Wang An-Ming

Wang An-Ming's Kapalua won First Place at the National Mid-Ad Congress of the National League of American Pen Women Florida State Conference, October 20, 2001.


Premieres

In 2001, organist Calvert Johnson gave the first performances of Soundings at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March 21; at Agnes Scott Coll., in Georgia, September 30; and in Santa Fe, NM, November 16.  Christ the Lord is Risen, for choir and organ, premiered April 15, 2001, with the Bethesda (MD) Choir.


Performances

Works presented in 2001 in Bethesda included O Come and Sing, for SATB choir and organ, with the Bethesda Church Choir, January 28, and the Bethesda Choir, May 27; and Piano Quintet, with SAI Mary K. Traver, Milner, Price, Daugherty, and Gruenther, in Strathmore Hall, March 24.  In 2001, Travel Scenes (Li River's Edge, Solemn Silhouettes, and Kapalua) was performed by Eagleson and Hosford in Strathmore Hall, April 6, and then with Eagleson and SAI National Arts Associate Francis Conlon in Chevy Chase, MD, September 9, and in Strathmore Hall, November 12.  Heard with the Hua Sheng Chorus in 2001 were Autumn Leaves, Spring, and Homesick, in Rockville, MD, May 12; The Christmas Gift and Mary's Lullaby, at the Washington DC Temple, in Maryland, November 30; Spring and Lu Huai, at George Mason University, in Virginia, April 13; and The Christmas Gift and Mary's Lullaby at the DC Mormon Temple, in Kensington, MD, November 30.  Works sung in Washington, DC in 2002 were A Hundred Loves, with soprano Elana Lippa, at the Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, April 13; and Ali San, Spring, The Nightingale, and The Endless Sorrow, with soprano Mira Yang, at the Korean Embassy in Washington, DC, September 12.  On June 23, 2002, Traver soloed with the FMMC Orchestra in Wang's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at Bishop Ireton High School, in Alexandria, VA.


Publications

Fantasy for Solo Organ; Vivace Press, December 2001.


Further Information

 

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