Annual American Composers Update
Sydney Hodkinson
Sydney Hodkinson is Professor of Composition at the Eastman
School of Music, Rochester, NY. He conducted Stravinsky's
L'Histoire du Soldat in a concert production with
the Eastman Virtuosi in Oct. 1997 during the triennial
Alumni Reunion. This past summer, he taught composition
and conducted several programs at the Aspen (CO) Music
Festival.
Premieres
Oleh Krysa presented
Branches, a sonata for solo
violin, Jan. 21, 1998 in Rochester. In 1998,
Hit and
Run, for harp and percussion, was heard first at SUNY
College at Geneseo (Apr. 5), with Grace Wong and Jim Tiller,
and then repeated by the same performers in Rochester
(July 11). At the Aspen Music Festival, Katherine Thomas
and the Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by the
composer, premiered
Summerwood, a concertino for
harp and chamber quintet, July 7, 1998.
Performances
: The Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by
G. Bernstein, performed
Overture: A Little Travelin'
Music, July 2, 1998 in Boulder. On Jan. 23, 1998,
an Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble program included
Nuevas
Canciones, Book I, for low voice, string quartet,
French horn, and percussion, with Bradley Ludman, conductor,
and Thomas Paul, baritone-bass. Chris Hutton, Hansjorg
Koch, and Yasuko Miyamoto played
Two Poems, for
cello, piano, and optional percussion, in Rochester (Oct.
1997) and at the Hochscule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany,
with a recording by the Southwest German Radio (Feb. 1998).
Heard at the University of Akron (OH) Percussion Festival,
Mar. 1-2, 1998, were
Limb, for marimba, and
Kerberos,
for snare drum.
Publications
:
Dance Overture; piano;
Branches and
Twig;
both for solo violin;
Tilt; chamber orchestra;
Spank; solo flute;
Hit and Run; harp and
percussion;
Heat; solo jazz trumpet;
Four Salon
Songs (Drawings, Set No. 11); flute and guitar;
Four
Salon Songs (Drawings, Set No. 11); lute and piano;
all by Merion Music (
Presser).
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