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SAI Philanthropies, Inc. Winter Digital Exclusive 666666 The 66th Annual American Composers Update T AN HRO IL P H I T E AN HRO P IL P S H IE P , S A A , T I I T N O N C I O . A 1 C I 9 H 7 P 4 L . A S A I A G M 1 9 H 7 P 4 L A S A I G M T NTHR AN HRO LA O IL P I P H I H IE E SAIP Philanthropies, Inc. P S S A , A , T I T I N N O O C I C I . A 1 A 1 9 H 9 H Winter Digital Exclusive 7 P 7 P 4 L 4 L A S A A I S G M A I G M MARCH 2015 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • 6666 HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • t’s an honor to be able to prepare this American Composers Update. How inspirational to see so much activity reported from every corner of the country! The Lambda Iota Chapter I advise provides continual delight; and I’m goaded into productivity by one of my students, a 12-year-old son of a former student whose father thought he could use lessons after the young man taught himself to write fugues. — Susan Cohn Lackman, I SAI Composers Bureau Director H. LESLIE ADAMS Concert, DeKalb IL, 4/13/14. Concerto for Steelpan MN, 10/26/14. Adams appeared in person for the and Orchestra, Josanne Francis, steelpan, NIU PUBLICATIONS: Children of the Heavenly Father, premiere of his complete Piano Philharmonic, NIU Concerto Concert, DeKalb, SATB a capella, Boosey & Hawkes. Etudes, Parts I & II at the University 2/12/14; also, Francis’ graduate recital, NIU, RECORDINGS: Treasures from the Archives, Navona of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, 4/18/14; American Protégé Concerto Competition, Records/PARMA Recordings 11/1/2014 and 11/2/2014. Carnegie Recital Hall, 5/16/14. Concerto for Steelpan PERFORMANCES: Nightsongs for and Orchestra, Liam Teague, steelpan. Elkhart JOHN H. BECK Voice and Orchestra, Kay George (IN) Symphony, Brion Groner, conducting, 3/3/13. PERFORMANCES: International Roberts, conductor, Carnegie/ Eisteddfod for flute, harp, and viola, Janus Trio, Percussion Festival, Jazz Variants, Weill Hall, NYC, 4/1/2014. Four ADAMS Chicago, 2/9/13; also, Shippensburg PA, 3/4/13; Beck, conductor, also, A Few lecture-recitals by Thomas Otten Myriad Trio, San Diego 3/10/13, July 2014. Moments of Fun, Beck, timpani, on Adams’ Piano Etudes: Alabama School of Fine PUBLICATIONS: NIU Music, horn and piano; Quito, Ecuador, 5/28-30/14. Recital Arts, Birmingham, 1/27/14; North Carolina Central Kammerkonzert horn and string orchestra; Oompah with Anders Astrand (Sweden), University; Durham, 2/7/14; Regional Conference Suite, horn and tuba; Sonata for Clarinet and Piano; International Percussion Forum, of Mid-Atlantic & Southern Conference; University Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra; Partita, flute, Zagan, Poland, 8/16-27/14, Zagan, BECK of Tennessee; Knoxville, 2/13/14; Wake Forest harpsichord, ‘cello; French Suite, unaccompanied Poland. The Two of Us, Michael University; Winston-Salem, NC, 2/21/14. horn; Canon and Caccia, for five horns,Blowout , brass Burritt, John Beck, timpani duet, PREMIERES: Piano Etudes, first complete quintet; Triptych, brass quintet; Triple Play, brass trio; Eastman School of Music, 9/9/14. performance, Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill, Part all published by Cimarron Music Press. PUBLICATIONS: The Two of Us (timpani duet), Kendor I, Maria Corley, 11/1/2014, Part II Thomas Otten, RECORDINGS: Quintet for Tuba and Strings, Fabien Music. 11/2/2014. Wallerand, tuba, Quatour Monticelli: PUBLICATIONS: Piano Etudes, Part I & Part II (sold Vibrations, CD SDRM-N 220991, June 2014. Lazy ELIZABETH R. BEESON ** separately or together), American Composers Alliance; Blues, Mardi Brass Quintet: Something Blue: CD For this season, Elizabeth Beeson gave piano concerts PO Box 1108, NYC 10040; or 802 W. 190th St., NYC LIR028, August 2014. on September 3 and October 22, 2013; another piano 10040. concert was given May 9, 2014. All three concerts RECORDINGS: Piano Etudes, Part II. Thomas Otten, CAROL BARNETT •••• were at Memorial Drive United Methodist Church in soloist. Albany Records. PERFORMANCES: Angelus ad Houston, TX. She also performed on December 20, WEBSITE: hleslieadams.com virginem was performed by the Choir 2013, at Park Shadows Clubhouse in Houston, TX, of Selwyn College, Cambridge/Sarah and gave organ concerts at Our Lady of Walsingham ELIZABETH R. AUSTIN • MacDonald during their Christmas Catholic Church in Houston, TX on January 31, 2014 RECORDING: Rose Sonata, Jerome Reed, piano, 2013 concerts in Cambridge and August 7, 2014. Beeson gave lectures and organ Elizabeth R. Austin, reciter, duration: 25:17, and London. It was recorded and demonstrations on the following topics: “Renaissance Spectra: Connecticut Composers Music: Navona broadcast by the BBC Singers Music” on October 2, 2013 and “Music During the Records 12/16/2013. Wonder Where, Reformation” on February 5, 2014. Both events American Spiritual Ensemble, Dr. BARNETT JAN BACH Everett McCorvey, conductor, Colla were at Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church in COMMISSIONS: Dr. Bach reports Voce Music, Inc., Central Presbyterian Church, St. Houston, TX. Also, Beeson taught two classes on that his Bach Talk, a three- Paul, MN, 2/13/14. The World Beloved: A Bluegrass English song on July 23, 2014 and July 30, 2014 in movement work for steelpan and Mass, Distinguished Concerts Singers International, Houston, TX. Elizabeth Beeson still plays organ and violin, commissioned by Liam Dailey & Vincent, Jefferson Johnson, Distinguished piano at local churches. Teague and the Music Literacy Concerts International New York, Boosey & Hawkes, PERFORMANCES: “Lullaby in C Major, #1 and 2” at trust of Trinidad and Tobago, was Carnegie Hall, NYC, 6/8/14; also, Masterworks Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church, Houston, completed in August 2013. Acro- Festival Chorus, Monroe Crossing, Philip Brunelle, TX, January 11 and 15, 2014, with the composer at botics, a five-movement work for conducting, Carnegie Hall, 6/9/14. Credo from The the organ. “In Green Meadows” with the composer on BACH tuba and ‘cello, commissioned by World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, VocalEssence the organ on January 31, 2014, at the same location. Jay Hunsberger, tuba, and Scott Ensemble Singers, Philip Brunelle, Shanghai & “Church Medley” with the composer on the organ on Kluksdahl, ‘cello, members of the Sarasota Symphony, Nanjing, China, 8/14-20/14. Three Norwegian Folk May 31, 2014, at the same location. “Spanish Waltz completed in July 2014. Songs, Maria Jette, soprano, Jill Olson-Moser, violin, in F” and “Russian Madness” with the composer on PERFORMANCES: Pilgrimage, for trumpet and piano Sonja Thompson, piano, The Edvard Grieg Society, the piano for both performances on March 4, 2014 at (orchestral transcription), Mark Baldin, trumpet, Mindekirke: Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church, Ashford United Methodist Church in Houston, TX. Northern Illinois University Philharmonic, Lucia Minneapolis, MN, 9/21/14. PREMIERES: “Easter Surprise” an organ solo was Matos, conductor, DeKalb, 11/25/13; also, Mark PREMIERES: March to Glory, Colin Lynch, organ, played by the composer at the organ at Our Lady of Baldin, trumpet, Jon Warfel, piano, U. of IL, Urbana, Beady Eyes Publishing, American Guild of Organists Walsingham Catholic Church in Houston, TX on August 4/2/13; Northern IL U, DeKalb, 4/6/13; IL State 2014 National Convention, Cathedral of the Holy 7, 2014. U, Bloomington, 4/29/14; Milliken U, Decatur IL, Cross, Boston, MA, 6/24/14. Hyrfrydol Meditation, RECORDINGS: A production of Beeson’s new piano 4/29/14. Bach Talk, for steelpan and violin (third Westminster Presbyterian Church Handbell Choir, movement only), Liam Teague, steelpan, Graciela Beady Eyes Publishing, Aaron Humble, conductor, CD was released in the spring of 2014 called A Time Nunez, violin, Fortieth Anniversary Steelband Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, To Remember with the composer playing 20 original pieces on piano. 2 Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • 6666 LAUREN BERNOFSKY 2014 Music Publishers Association Paul Revere Award another great Italian woman, chef Lidia Bastianich, Sonatine won the Newly Published Music Competition for Graphic Excellence for his cover art for “Elephant commissioned and performed by Music from Copland of the National Flute Association and was performed Breath” composed by his publisher, Evan Hause. House.” by flutist Mattie Greathouse and pianist Nolan Pearson PERFORMANCES: Cabaret Songs, selections newly- PERFORMANCES: Mother/Father, Tree of Life, radio at the annual convention in Chicago. orchestrated, Members of the Ryan Center/Lyric broadcast, Valparaiso, Chile. Who, But I? Choral Music PERFORMANCES: Trio for Brass, Black Bayou Opera of Chicago, Grant Park Music Festival, Chicago, Experience Chorus, Meredith Bowen, conductor, St. Brass, International Women’s Brass 8/13/14; also, Joyce Castle, mezzo-soprano, KU James Cathedral, Chicago, IL, 8/3/14; also, Portland Conference, Northern Kentucky Chamber Winds, Paul Popiel, conductor, University of OR Symphonic Girl Choir, 4/15/14. University, 6/8/14. Saltarello, Kansas, 10/6/14. PREMIERES: An August Occasion, Sterling Brass John Marchiando, trumpet, Miriam Let Evening Come, Lisa Saffer soprano, Kim Quintet, Blizzard Theater, Elgin, IL, 3/16/14. We Are a Hickman, piano, International Kashkashian, viola, pianist Max Levinson, piano, Choir, Portland Symphonic Girl Choir, Roberta Jackson, Trumpet Guild Conference, King of Boston, MA, 10/22/14; Hal Leonard. Deb Burgess, co-conductors, Portland, OR, 4/6/14. Prussia, PA, 5/21/14. Heart of Fire, PREMIERES: Circus Overture, commissioned by Sinfonietta per Sofia, Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra, Intermediate Strings, Ottawa Youth the Boston Symphony Orchestra to commemorate Carlo Ponti, conductor, Festival del Sole, Napa Valley, Orchestra Academy, Sandra Van Barr, BERNOFSKY Leonard Slatkin’s 70th birthday; Boston Symphony CA, 7/19/14.
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