Joseph Wilcox Jenkins**

The works and biography of Joseph Willcox Jenkins are presented in a chapter of the newly-released Composers on Composing for Band, volume III, edited by Mark Camphouse, from GIA Publications, Chicago. The composer announces the following new works: For Madeline, op. 208, Suite for Solo Cello (three movements, all in first position), written for the composer’s 12-year-old granddaughter; and an as yet unnamed work, op. 209 (a commission for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point) nears completion.

Premieres

Organist Ann Lobounsky premiered A Gentle Heritage, op. 207, on June 24, 2006, on the recently restored Civic Hall pipe organ in Methuen, MA.

Performances

Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church Choir and the West Virginia Brass presented A Psalm of Jubilee, op. 136, ina performance conducted by Donald Wilkins.

**Sigma Alpha Iota Friend of the Arts

Further Information

• 2004-2005 American Composers Update
• 2003-2004 American Composers Update
• 2002-2003 American Composers Update
• 2001-2002 American Composers Update
• 2000-2001 American Composers Update
• 1997-1998 American Composers Update
• 1996-1997 American Composers Update