Annual American Composers Update
Elizabeth Lauer
Elizabeth Lauer is a resident
of Wilton, CT. She was engaged for the spring term to
teach aural theory at SUNY College at Purchase. Between
Mar. 31 and Apr. 17, 1998, Margaret Mills and Lauer performed
several two-piano programs, including concerts at SUNY
College at Purchase; the Third Street Music Settlement
School, in New York, NY; the First Presbyterian Church,
in Stamford, CT; and a benefit for South Shore Music,
Inc., in Fairfield, CT. The Hoff-Barthelson School's annual
contemporary music festival included two performances
of Lauer's four-hands-with-narrator arrangement of
Peter
and the Wolf with the school's students and a narrator,
and featuring artwork by Scarsdale (NY) Public Schools
fourth-grade students, May 3, 1998.
Premieres
On June 10, at Florence Gould Hall, in New York, NY, a
benefit for the Third Street Music Settlement School included
the New York premiere of
The Pischna Polka, for
one piano, five hands (five performers), played by Max
Levinson and four of the school's students. Lauer will
give the first performance of
Dextravaganza, for
solo piano, right hand alone, Mar. 24, 1999 at the Walsh
Piano Studio, in Greenwich, CT.
Performances
Lauer and Margaret Mills played
It Takes Two . . .,
a set of duets for piano, four-hands, Jan. 24, 1999 at
the New Canaan (CT) Library.
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