Annual American Composers Update

Alice Jordan

Alice Jordan makes her home in Des Moines, IA. Her arrangement of America the Beautiful, which is now on the Lion & Fox Recording Blessed is the Nation CD, with the National Christian Choir, C. Harry Causey, producer and conductor, was heard in a July 4, 1997 WOI-FM broadcast with the Des Moines Children's Choruses and the Des Moines Symphony, Eugene Wilson and Joseph Guinta, conductors, at the Iowa state capitol. In 1997 her Aria for Oboe and Organ won Honorable Mention in the Mu Phi Epsilon National Composition Contest. A new collection of her organ preludes is in process at Genevox.

Performances

The Grand View Lutheran Church, in Des Moines, IA, rededicated its Schantz organ with a recital including Partita on Foundation, played by Robert M. Speed, Apr. 7, 1997. In 1997 soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams sang Go Not Far for Beauty at the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA, with pianist Alan Morrison (Apr. 12); and at Luther College, Decorah, IA, with pianist Jon Spong (Apr. 20). John Corina and Deborah Henson performed Aria for Oboe and Organ at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Athens, GA, June 1, 1997. The Iowa Choral Directors' Association Convention, held in Mason City, July 30, 1997, featured Randall Buikema directing the Westminster Presbyterian Church Chorale, of Des Moines, in See the Land, Her Easter Keeping.