Annual American Composers Update
Robert Starer
In celebration of Robert Starer's 75th birthday, a Jan.
10, 1999 New York, NY concert featured chamber works for
voice, flute, violin, cello, and piano, as well as
Six
Decades of Piano Music, played by the composer, including
Prelude (1946),
Israeli Sketches (1957),
Sketches in Color (1963),
Hexahedron (1974),
At Home Alone (1989), and
Carillon of Albany
(1998).
Premieres
Northeastern University celebrated its centennial by commissioning
and premiering
A Song of Joys (text by Walt Whitman),
for narrator, chorus, and orchestra, May 17, 1998 at Jordan
Hall, New England Conservatory, in Boston. On Sept. 20,
1998,
A Prelude for Albany, for carillon, was heard
first in Albany, NY.
The Other Voice, a Portrait of
Hilda of Whitby in Words and Music (text by Gail Godwin)
received its first performance at Holy Cross Church, Oct.
25, 1998 in Kingston, NY. The U.S. Military Academy commemorated
the Bicentennial of West Point by commissioning and presenting
Fantasy on "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", for
piccolo and symphonic band, Nov. 9, 1998.
Performances
At a Kennedy Center program, Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson
presented
Elegy for a Woman who Died too Young,
Nov. 18, 1998 in Washington, DC.
Trio for Violin, Cello,
and Piano received a performance at the Grosser Sendesaal,
Nov. 26, 1998 in Vienna, Austria. The Seattle Symphony
played Starer's clarinet concerto
Kli Zemer, Oct.
7, 1998. Scheduled for Mar. 27, 1999 is
Letter to a
Composer, with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. The
Hudson Valley Philharmonic will perform
A Song of Joys,
Apr. 15-17, 1999.
Recordings
Psalms of Woe and Joy, for choir and piano;
Gloriae
Dei Cantores; on
Paraclete
CD of Psalm settings by American composers.
Concerto
for Two Pianos and Orchestra; Joshua Pierce, Dorothy
Jonas, Prague Radio Orchestra;
MMC
Records.
Images of Man; Letter to a Composer; The
Ideal Self; all with Danielle Woerner, soprano, with
flute, clarinet, string quartet;
Parnassus
Recordings.
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