Annual American Composers Update

SAI Patroness Annetta Hamilton Rosser makes her home in Madison, WI. Gilbert Publications is preparing Another Offering of Song, 21 songs for medium to high voice, for publication.

On Mar. 5, 1997, Behold Thy Mother, for two women's voices, was premiered by Melissa Hinz and Kathleen Otterson. On Mar. 19, 1997, Father, Into Thy Hands I Commend My Spirit, for tenor and bass, had its first performance, with Chris Ryan and Aaron Schauer, accompanied by pianist Sally Jamieson, at Christ Presbyterian Church, Madison.

At the National Federation of Music Clubs Convention in Milwaukee, WI, on May 2, 1997, Rosser's Meditation was played by Lola Yde, violin, and May Ella Jerome, piano. On Oct. 3, 1997, at the Unitarian Meeting House in Madison, Otterson and Nancy Schmalz performed Six Songs of the T'ang Dynasty ("Lost in the Tibetan War," "A Spring Sigh," "A Song of the Palace," "Near the Old Temple," "Turkestan," and "Thinking of one Far Away"), for voice and flute. Meditations on the Cross was part of the 1997 Christ Presbyterian Church Lenten Vespers, with Hinz, soprano; Otterson, mezzo-soprano; Ryan, tenor; Schauer, bass; and Jamieson, piano. Jane Horswill, soprano, sang A Lenten Song Cycle for the P. E. O. Group in Fairfield Glade, TN, Mar. 30, 1997. On Oct. 27, 1996, Elizabeth Muzzy, violin, and Doug Manley, organ, presented Meditation at St. Paul United Methodist Church, in Cincinnati, OH.