Annual American Composers Update
Jeanne Singer
Jeanne Singer who composes in her home studio in Manhasset,
NY, serves as pianist and director of The Musinger Players
vocal-chamber ensemble, a group of six performing artists.
She received her 20th consecutive ASCAP award since 1978,
and won Meet the Composer grants for participating in
the May 12, 1998 composers' concert of the National League
of American Pen Women, in New York, NY, and for the Oct.
25, 1998 Musinger Players concert at the Bryant Library,
Roslyn, NY.
Premieres
On a concert of American Music, tenor Austin Miskell and
the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vit
Micka, premiered the orchestral version of
Avenue of
the Righteous (text by Anne Marx), June 6, 1998 in
Olomoucs, The Czech Republic.
Tribute to Raoul Wallenberg
(texts by Madeline Mason and Marx), for solo voice and
orchestra, was heard first June 21, 1998 at the Springfield
(MA) Summer Arts Festival with soprano Ruth Alexander
and the CMSS Orchestra, under Diane Fedora.
Performances
1998 Long Island Composers Alliance (LICA) programs included
Helene Williams, soprano, and Leonard Lehrman, piano,
in
A Cycle of Love (four songs), in Van Courtland
Park, Bronx, NY (Jan. 4); at the Community Church of Boston
(Jan. 11); at the Four Seasons Resort, Palm Beach, FL
(Jan. 25); and The North Miami Beach (FL) Performing Arts
Center (Jan. 29); and Lisa Perlsen, piano, in
Andante
for a Poet, at the Chelsea Center for the Arts, East
Norwich, NY (Mar. 27). In 1998,
From the Green Mountains,
for violin, clarinet, and piano, was heard with the Hardwick
Chamber Ensemble at the Chesapeake (VA) Central Library
(Jan. 15); and with the Musinger Players at a Nassau County
Office of Cultural Development concert at the Chelsea
Center for the Arts, in East Norwich (Jan. 25). The Camerata
Singers, led by Floyd Farmer, sang
Come Greet the Spring,
for SSA choir, Mar. 22, 1998 at their spring concert at
First Church Christ Scientist, Muskegan, MI. The Concerts
at the Castle series in Claryville, NY featured
From
Petrarch, for voice, French horn, and piano, Aug.
2, 1998 with Judith Otten, Barbara Oldham, and Eugene
Rohrer. On a Musinger Players program at the Bryant Library,
Roslyn, NY, tenor Austin Miskell, accompanied by the composer
at the piano, presented
5 Galgenlieder (German
poems by Christian Morgenstern), Oct. 25, 1998.
Recordings
A Cycle of Love ("Merging Song"; "A Decade"; "Lament";
"All Beauty Brings you Close"), for soprano and piano;
Williams and Lehrman; on
Capstone
Records LICA-sponsored CD
Helene Williams Sings
Songs of Love CPS-8647.
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