Annual American Composers Update

Judith Lang Zaimont

SAI Honorary Member Judith Lang Zaimont resides in suburban Minneapolis, MN. Excerpts and discussion of her PARABLE: A Tale of Abram and Isaac appear in Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women, James Briscoe, editor, from the Indiana University Press. On Oct. 23-26, 1997, she was a featured composer at the Ohio University "Women in Music: One Hundred Years" conference. Virginia Eskin has commissioned a new rag for the upcoming CD, The Ragtime Project. Throughout July 1997, Northwest Airlines broadcast her Summer Melodies CD on its classical channel.

Premieres

. . . 3: 4, 5 . . . , for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and bass viol (commissioned and published by Jeanné), premiered at the International Double Reed Society, in Chicago, June 29, 1997. Commissioned by Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Meditations at the Time of the New Year, for SATB choir, SSA soloists, tubular bells, and glockenspiel, had its first performance there in April 1997, and then was heard in New York, NY with the Flosilegium Chamber Choir, June 4, 1997.

Performances

A Weill Hall program included Doubles, for oboe and piano, Dec. 1, 1997, in New York City. Anne Turner sang In the Theatre of Night, for soprano and piano, April 1997, in Saratoga, NY.

Publications

Reflective Rag and Judy's Rag; both by Vivace Press. Grand Tarantella; violin and piano; Sounds Alive!

Recordings

Zones -- Piano Trio No. 3 and Russian Summer -- Piano Trio No. 1; both with Peter Winograd, violin; Peter Wyrick, cello; Joanne Polk, piano; A Calendar Set: 12 Preludes; Polk, piano; all on Arabesque Records ZONES -- Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont CD Z6686, February 1997. When Angels Speak -- Fantasy for Wind Quintet; Manhattan Wind Quintet; Albany Records When Angels Speak CD Troy 246, September 1997. Chansons Nobles et Sentimentales; Charles Bressler, tenor, and Zaimont, piano; Greyed Sonnets; Elena Tyminski, soprano, and Zaimont, piano; Two Songs for Soprano and Harp; Berenice Bramson and Sara Cutler; Songs of Innocence; Tyminski, soprano; Pierce Brown, tenor; Nancy Allen, harp; Barbara Bogatin, cello; Patricia Spencer, flute; Roger Nierenberg, conductor; The Magic World: Ritual Music for Three; David Arnold, baritone; Jonathan Hass, percussion; Zita Zohar, piano; all on Leonarda The Vocal-Chamber Art -- Music by Judith Lang Zaimont CD, November 1997. "Let it Be Forgotten," from Greyed Sonnets; Neva Pilgrim, soprano, and Steven Heyman, piano; Leonarda Women's Voices -- Five Centuries of Song LE 338, October 1996.

Further Information

For more complete information, see Judith Lang Zaimont's entry in our Composers Bureau Online.