 |
||||
 |
|
|||
|
The 2007 American Composers Updateas published in PAN PIPES, Volume 99, Number 2 Emma Lou Diemer Faculty and student soloists and ensembles performed an “Emma Lou Diemer Musicale” at Georgia College & State University (GCSU), Milledgeville, on April 21, 2006. Performers included pianists Richard Mercier, Eunjung Choi, and Roger McVey; sopranos Wendy Mullen, Jessica Lucas, Jennifer Flory; trumpeter Amy Cherry, hornist Heidi Lucas, trombonist Maureen Horgan, flutist Lisa Bartholow; and the Max Noah Singers, Women’s Ensemble, and University Chorus conducted by Jennifer Flory. A new piece, In One of the Stars, featuring a text from The Little Prince by Saint-Exupéry, was commissioned by Cantabile Chamber Chorale in memory of chorus member Leila Eutermarks. A Diemer/Mozart concert, sponsored by the Santa Barbara (CA) Music Club at the Unitarian Society in October, included Homage to Poulenc, Mozart, and MacDowell performed by flutist Suzanne Duffy and cellist Geoffrey Rutkowski, with the composer at the piano; Encore performed by pianist Betty Oberacker, and Psalms for Trumpet and Organ performed by John Ernest and the composer. A festival of Diemer’s music, organized by David Lynch, will be presented at Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, in March 2007. Premieres Pianist Joan DeVee Dixon gave the first performance of Psalms for Piano at the Rising Phoenix Retreat Center in Flintstone, MD, in 2005; subsequently, she performed the work a second time in April 2006 at the Bethlehem Peace Center in Israel. Effervescence (text by Flannery O’Connor) was introduced in April by the GCSU Chorus, conducted by Jennifer Morgan Flory, in Milledgeville, GA. Up and Beyond was presented for the April inauguration of the university president by the Taylor University Chorale and Instrumental Ensemble, with pianist Leon Harshenin, under the direction of JoAnn Rediger, Fort Wayne, IN. In November, Vox Femina introduced its commissioned work Triptych (after Sara Teasdale, Amy Lowell, and Walt Whitman) in a November performance conducted by Iris S. Levine, Cal Poly University, Pomona, CA. Evensong (text by Mary Virginia Micka) was given its premiere in February 2007 by the women’s choruses of the University of Minnesota, Augsburg University, Hamline University, and College of St. Catherine, Minneapolis, MN. Performances Toccata for Six was heard in an April 2006 performance by the Weber State University Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Don Keipp, in Ogden, Utah, and in May at Otterbein College, Westerville, OH, by the Otterbein Percussion Ensemble, directed by Jack Jenny. Pianist Nancy Boston presented Sonata No. 3 in April at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. The Culver-Stockton College Symphonic Band, conducted by Thomas C. Polett, performed Declamation for Brass and Percussion in an April concert in Canton, MO. Trumpeter Amy Cherry and organist Ben Outen presented Psalms for Trumpet and Organ in July at Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. Publications Poem of Remembrance, clarinet and chamber orchestra; Homage to Poulenc, Mozart, and MacDowell, flute, cello, and piano; Norteamexipanicumsake, for two pianos; Requiem, woodwind quintet and string quintet; all by MMB Music. Odes on Beethoven’s Ninth and Simple Gifts, both for organ; by Zimbel Press. Fantasy on Valet Will Ich Dir Geben and Hyfrydol, organ, by MorningStar Music Publishers. Recordings Homage to Poulenc, Mozart, and MacDowell; flutist Michael Finegold, cellist Raphael Popper-Keizer, pianist David Pihl, Essex Chamber Music Players; ECMP label. Before Spring, violinist Laura Kobayashi and pianist Susan Gray; Albany Records. Requiem, for woodwind quintet and string quintet; North/South Consonance. Indian Flute (after Dorothy Diemer Hendry), Nina Assimakopoulos, flute and narration; Capstone Records. Psalms for Piano, Joan DeVee Dixon, available from joandeveedixon.com. “Sonata No. 3,” pianist Nancy Boston, American Women: Modern Voices in Piano Music, CDBaby.com. Further Information
|
|
||
Last updated 3/1/2007 |
||||
|
||||
