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MONTCLAIR STATE COLLEGE SCHOOL of FINE and PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT of MUSIC Presents the AMERICAN SOCIETY of UNIVERSITY COMPO MONTCLAIR STATE COLLEGE SCHOOL OF FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC presents THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY COMPOSERS REGION II CONFERENCE Friday, February 20, 1987 McEachern Recital Hall Saturday, February 21, 1987 Music Building CONCERT I Friday, February 20, 1987 12:00 noon The Stillness Reynold Weidenaar Steve Gauci, saxophone Wry Rimes <5 poems by Cornel Lengyel> (1986> Jeanne Singer Geography Lesson Neighbors The Foolish Worm The Great Orator The Joker Austin Miskell, tenor Bernard Wasser, bassoon Voices of the Iron Harp Joelle Wallach Cesar Vuksic, piano Dialogue for 7 trumpets and piano Steven B. Hirschhorn Richard Wygant, trumpet solo Richard Dispenziere, trumpet Ronald Coupland, trumpet David Alper, trumpet Steve Ba1danzi, trumpet Richard Hilton, trumpet Joseph Puso, trumpet Steve Hirschhorn, piano Dr. Dorothy Heier, conductor PRESENTATIONS Friday, February 20, 1987 3:00 p111 Presentation by Ting Ho Presentation by E. Michael Richards CONCERT II Friday, February 20, 1987 8:00 pm Two Intermezzi <1985, 1984) Steven R. Gerber Improvisation Homage Steven R. Gerber, piano Windhover Hilary Tann Steve Gauci, saxophone Epitaph and Caprice Raoul Pleakow David Holzman, piano The Voice Within Ron Mazurek Max Lifchitz, piano Echoes David Kowalski Michelle Disco, soprano CONCERT III Saturday, February 21, 1987 12:00 noon Harsher Landscapes Eric Valinsky Eric Valinsky, piano Tesserae VII Brian Fennelly Hurray Colosimo, clarinet Preludes for Piano Ting Ho Michael J. HcKenna, piano Fantasies in Motion Michael Torello Michael Torello, accordion PRESENTATIONS Saturday, February 21, 1987 3:00 pm Presentation by the McLean Mix Pieces £or Ensemble <op.33) Eric Ross Eric Ross, piano, synthesizers, guitar, theremin, percussion Mary Ross, video synthesis, tapes and stills CONCERT IV Saturday, February 21, 1987 8:00 pm Nine Preludes for Piano Nancy Van de Vate Max Lifchitz, piano El an Matthew Harris I. Excited and brilliant II. Very slow; Flowing III. Largo; Gently moving IV. Playfully; Excited and brilliant Patricia Leppert, flute Anthony Ambrosio, vibraphone Perne in a Gyre Elizabeth Bell Joseph Kubera, piano Gregor Kitzis, violin Yuri Bond, violoncello Richard Goldsmith, clarinet Max Lifchitz, conductor Two Songs <and an Outburst> Steven L. Rosen ha us I. Sleepless Alone II. Here's a Surprise III. Still There Catherine Rove, soprano William Moersch, marimba Bohdan Hilash, alto saxophone/bass clarinet Profiles Irwin Swack Parlando Agitate Danza Teneramente Giacoso Giajoso Naomi Drucker•, clarinet Linda Quan••, violin Chris Finckel••, violoncello Transformations No. 3 for marimba Max Lifchitz Tracie Lozano, marimba •Member and co-director of the American Chamber Ensemble ••Member of the American Chamber Ensemble REYNOLD WEIDENAAR is a composer and video/film maker. He received a B.Mus. degree in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1973, where he was valedictorian, and an M.A. degree in composition from New York University in 1980. He was Editor of ~1~91rgn!g tt~§!Q B~Y!~!· Cleveland Orchestra Recording Engineer under George Szell, and Chief Audio Engineer and Director of the Electronic Music Studios at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he was a member of the conservatory composition faculty. He joined the faculty of New York University in 1979, where he is presently Assistant Professor of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts. He teaches experimental video and film production, and motion picture recording and creative sound design. Mr. Weidenaar composes primarily for electronic media, and also creates videos and films which are extensions and reflections of music. His awards in film include Directors' Choice at Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Silver Award at Festival of the Americas <Houston, TX>, and Silver Award at International Film and TV Festival of New York. Major film screenings have been at NY Film­ makers' Expo, Flaherty Seminar <Toronto>, Nouveau Cinema <Montreal>, FILMEX <Los Angeles, CA>, and international festivals at Montpelier, Cracow, and Hong Kong. His awards in video include the Grand Prize at the Tokyo Video Festival, Winner of the National Video Competition, Winner of the Hometown USA Video Fes­ tival, Golden Athena at Athens Video Festival, Gold Award at San Mateo Video Competition, Winner of the NYC Experimental Video and Film Festival, and Winner of the Independent Film and Video Exposition of New York. Major video screenings have been at the Whitney Museum, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Art, the Kitchen Center, World Wide Video Festival <The Hague>, Video Roma, and the World Festival of Animated Films <Zagreb>. Music composition honors include First Prize at the Sonavera International Tape Music Competition, Winner of the International Gaudeamus Festival Composers Competi­ tion <Holland>, and a Composer Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also received Ohio Arts Council and Fulbright Fellowships, and has had artist residencies at ZBS Media, Experimental Television Center, and Yellow Springs Institute. Disk recordings of his compositions have been released on the Crystal, Advance, and Capstone labels. Extensive articles on his work have appeared in Y!Q~Q9r!Qn~. tt~§!9!1 ~m~r!9!• Y!Q~Q g~!Q~, In~ en!1!9~1gn!! !ng~!r~r. and in many Japanese publications. In~ §1!11n~§§, a video with saxophone, received the Athens Award in video art <performance/ music> at the 1985 Athens <DH> Video Festival. The work also shared the Grand Prize at the Mid-America Music Video Festival sponsored by the City Movie-Center in Kansas City. Besides a cash award, the Prize included appointment for Mr. Weidenaar as an artist-in-residence at the Movie-Center. JEANNE SINGER is a composer and pianist, who graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College. She studied composition at Columbia University and piano with Nadia Heisenberg. Her compositions in all forms have been performed in con­ certs and on radio and TV throughout the United States and many countries abroad. She has received numerous prizes, grants and commissions. In 1984, World University awarded her an honorary Doctorate in Music. About ~r~ B!m~§ Ms. Singer comments, wI chose these five short poems, from Cornel Lengyel's collection, ~n!!Qr~n~§ §gng§, for their dry wit, brevity, and droll philosophical overtones. The setting is for voice and woodwind alone to emphasize their spare clarity and humor, using the solo instrument to set the moods and provide musical commentaries on the text and vocal line. w TWO SONGS <AND AN OUTBURST> Music by Steven L. Rosenhaus Poems from A ~!~! §n~~!! by Robert Hershon• who's that breathing heavy waking me up me who's that crashing around waking me up me who's hand is that mine here's a surprise you and me in your bright little house and here's a surprise you and me in your cheery bed o you are a prize in the morning Can't you ever be on time I've been standing on this corner amusing myself by mistaking the ugliest people the clumaieat people f o : you the spitting images •Texts @ 1979 by Robert Hershon. Used with permission. WRY RIHES <1986> Hueic by Jeanne Singer Poems by Cornel Lengyel Some claim the earth ie round, Round ae a ball; So•• claim the earth ia flat, Flat as a mat; But I hav• found it Both this and that: At times, it's a perfect ball; At times, it's perfectly flat. If you will tell me something new I may tell you •om•thing true: I do net like my••li too well, Hy neighbors like me even leas. Until I change the way I feel, We both may find the world's a meas. "The World's my Coccoon, • I dreampt, curl•d in Time my Cabbage Leaf. "I'm •pinning my Web for the World, and my Web hold• the World, I believe.• Then, wakened by a stab of sprouting wings, I cried: "I was born to be a Wise Worm-­ I' 11 not become a Butterfly!" I heard a p•t•r who could preach like paul, hia loud golden voice converting all: pig'• ears into purses, sky into pie. "It's true I had nothing to say,• he confessed at the end of his day . "But I preached like a devil, didn't 1 7 " Unlike a clever poet, When I've nothing to aay I know it: I make no riddle of it-- I never croon nor growl it; I make no sermon of it-- I never hoot nor howl it; I hawk no samples of it-- Save here and now to prove I too can do itl HILARY TANN, • W•l•h compoaer, came to the United State• in 1972 to study with J. K. R•nd•ll •t Princeton Univer•ity. Sh• r•c•iv•d h•r Ph.D. in 1981, •nd i• curr•ntly •n A••i•tant Profeaeor of "u•ic •t Union Coll•ge, Schen•ct•dy, NY. Sh• i• • •ember of th• Ex•cutive Bo•rd of th• lnt•rn•tion•l L••gue of Wo••n Co•po••r•, Editor of the I~~~ ~~!•!~!!~[, •nd •n A••oci•te Editor of th• e~r9Rtg!!~~· Q! ~~! ~Y•!9· "o•t of her co•po•ition• •r• vritt•n for am•ll ch••b•r •n•••bl••, mo•t r•cently • quint•t co••i••ioned by th• Wel•h Art• Council for the Lont•no •n•emble. Sh• h•• r•c•iv•d p•rformanc•• throughout the Unit•d St•te• a• v•ll •• in Auatr•lia, Ireland •nd W•le•. ~!n~h9~~[, compo••d during July, 1985, i• b•••d on the id•• of flight from • f•lcon'• point of vi•w. Th• piece alternate• aection• of •low •o•ring where atr•ngth •nd d•t•iled focu• predominate, with swifter ••ction• where the blurring of th• ruah of flight t•ke• over.
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