Annual American Composers Update

Greg A. Steinke's Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music, Pts. I & II, eighth edition, was published by Allyn & Bacon, December 1997. At the SCI National Conference, held at Florida International University, in Miami, Steinke was honored as outgoing President and National Chair with a plaque and portfolio of letters for three terms of service (nine years). At the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg, he gave guest lectures on music job searches, new oboe performance techniques, and his compositional work; and presented a paper, "The Use of Native American Musics and Poetic Images in the Compositional Process," at the North American Indian Values: For a New Millennium conference. On July 20-26, 1996, as Associate Director of the Ernest Bloch Music Festival, in Newport, OR, he directed the festival's eighth annual Composers Symposium. In 1997 he received another ASCAP Standard Award and a Millikin University Student Senate Friends of Students award (May 5). Also in 1997 he played English horn with the Millikin-Decatur Symphony in Hanson's Romantic Symphony (Sept. 20) and Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music (Mar. 16); and served as oboist with the Millikin University Faculty Ensemble for Dvorak's Serenade (Apr. 1). He resigned as Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Professor of Music at Millikin University on June 30, 1997, to go into private business in Flagstaff, AZ and to devote time to composition.

On Apr. 21, 1997, Jerry Miskell played Santa Fe Trail Echoes, for viola, at Mount Union College. The Ernest Bloch Music Festival, July 22, 1997, included Native American Notes -- The Bitter Roots of Peace, with the string quartet Onyx Quartet. In 1997 Native American Notes also was heard with the Coolidge Quartet in Hartford, CT (July); Aspen, CO (Aug.); and on European tour starting in September. On Nov. 7, 1997, performances at SCI regional conferences included Inquietude, for flute, at California State University, Fresno; and Another New Beginning II, for guitar, at SUNY College at Potsdam.

Another New Beginning II; Lynn Harting Ware; Angelica GXD 5735, September 1997.

For more complete information, see Greg Steinke's entry in our Composers Bureau Online.