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VOLUME 22 NUMBER 4 APRIL 1992 University Of Alabama Hosts 26th Annual SCI Conference

by GERALD WARFIELD Enormous thanks are due Marvin MARGARET BROUWER Johnson for his industry and skill in put HAROLD SCIDFFMAN MARVIN JOHNSON, Associate ting together a conference of this size and JOHN WHITE Professor of Music at the University of complexity. His staff, from performers to STEPHEN GRYC Alabama, was host for the Society's 26th the drivers of the vans, did an exceptional PHILIP CARLSEN Annual Conference. Marvin coordinated and cheerful job. Dennis Monk, Director JAMES R. GREESON the considerable resources of the music of the School of Music, is to be congratu ALEJANDRO TKACZEVSKI department, which included the Sym lated on having such capable resources to HARVEY J. STOKES phony, the Wind Ensemble, the Chorus, mount such an excellent conference. The BYRONK. YASUI the Contemporary Music Ensemble, and only downside to a conference like this, GREG STEINKE many faculty and students.... Also perform observed one attendee, is that it's a very WILLIAM PENN ing were the Quapaw String Quartet, the tough act to follow. EUGENIO MANUAL RODRIGUES Cadek Trio and the Contemporary En KURT KAZUO KUNIYASU Two items of business deserve men sembles from the University of Georgia MAX LIFCHITZ tion. General Manager GERALD WAR and the University of Illinois. The final ELIZABETH VERCOE FIELD reported that for the second year concert was given by the Alabama Sym MARSHALL BIALOSKY in a row, SCI operated in the black - good phony Orchestra conducted by Paul Poliv NORMAN WESTON news in these uncertain times -- and the nick. DANA BRAYTON National Council voted unanimously to WILLIAM DA VIS In the setting of the new Moody Music continue the open submissions policy for ELIZABETH FRIOU BELL Building, there were ninety compositions the regional conferences, i.e., a member DON STEIN performed, eleven papers presented, and may submit scores for performance CQJl BARTON MCLEAN one panel discussion. Add numerous meet sideration to any conference, no matter PRISCILLA MCLEAN ings, two receptions and a banquet, and where located. This proviso is, of·course, EDWARD MATTILA there were enough events of a consistently pending any restrictions the Conference SYLVIA PENGILLY high -- and often brilliant -- performance Chair needs to impose. ROCKY J. REUTER level to satisfy anyone involved in contem Works performed at the conference LAURA R. HOFFMAN porary music. were by: THOMAS E. FITCH The conference was dedicated to the DON FREUND CHARLES W. SMITH memory oflong-time SCI member DAVID 'DAVID ERNST CHRISTOPHER MEISTER COHEN. His wife, Dorothy Cohen, heard JANICE MACAULEY WILLIAM B. GOLDBERG David remembered at the banquet by JOHN CARBON CLAIRE POLIN GREG STEINKE, SCI President, and MARILYN J. ZIFFRIN ROBERT ROLLIN Warren Hutton, University of Alabama WIESLAW RENTOWSKI RICHARD WILLIS School of Music faculty member. Dorothy ERNESTO PELLEGRINI ALAN SCHMITZ was presented wi.th a gold bracelet as a JOHN D. WHITE ANDRAS SZENTKIRALYI token of affection from the Society. SARAH JOHNSTON REID ANDREW IMBRIE, Professor of Music SCOTT WARNER 27th Annual SCI Conference at the University of California at Berkeley JENNIFER IDGDON Cleveland State University and holder of the Endowed Chair of Com JEREMY BECK April 15-18, 1993 position at the University of Alabama, ALLEN BRINGS gave the keynote address and was awarded SAMMAGRILL Deadline for submissions: honorary lifetime membership by Presi JANICE MISURELLI-MITCHELL November 13, 1992 dent Steinke. The banquet was held at a JOHN RUSSELL beautifully restored mansion, the former DONNA KELLY EASTMAN Details in May issue Governor's Residence of the State of DAVID BRACKETT of SCI Newsletter Alabama. RICHARD BROOKS PAUL EPSTEIN BMl's James G. Roy, Jr. CHRISTOPHER KUZELL SCOTT MARTIN YOON HEE KIM-HWANG STEPHEN DAVID BECK Remembered ANDREW IMBRIE RODNEY OAKES With sorrow we note that JAMES G. 1 ALLANBLANK CORT LIPPE ROY Jr., former Vice-President ofBMI KEVIN HIATT Concert Music Administration, died on CHARLES BESTOR The panel on "The Emergence of an January 6, 1992, at St. Joseph's Hospital ALEXANDRE RUDAJEV International Musical Style -- Illusion or in Stamford, Connecticut, after a long DINOS CONSTANTINIDES Reality" was moderated by FREDERIC struggle with Parkinson's disease. ALAN KINNINGHAM GOOSSEN, and included on the panel BARBARA JAZWINSKI VIOLETA DINESCU, CORT LIPPE, Roy was born and raised in Alabama, PETER LIEUWEN MAX LIFCHITZ, HUBERT HOWE, graduate from the University of Alabama, MICHAEL IATAURO PAUL MARTIN ZONN and ANDREW and pursued further studies at Cornell LYDIA AYERS IMBRIE. University and the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. NEIL MCKAY The conference was made possible by STEPHEN SYVERUD generous support from the Central Bank In 1977, Roy became the head of GILBERT TRYTHALL of the South. Allocations from several BMl's Concert Music Administration, DAVID GOMPPER sectors of the University of Alabama in directing the Carl Haverlin/BMI Archives JOHN A. LENNON cluded the College of Arts and Sciences, and the BMI Student Composer Awards BRUCE TAUB the Society for the Fine Arts, and the program. Roy retired from BMI in 1985, HUBERT HOWE Office of Sponsored Programs. Support turning to his interests in composition, DAVID COHEN was also received from the Alabama State creative writing and history. REGINA KEANE Arts Council. Concerts were broadcast PAUL MARQUARDT locally by WUAL/WQPR Public Radio, Contributions may be made to the BMI PAUL MARTIN ZONN and plans are under way for further dis Foundation, Inc., 320 W 57th Street, New VIOLETA DINESCU tribution. York, NY 10019. CORT LIPPE DAVIDVAYO DANIEL NIGHTINGALE SCI Committee on Women and Minorities JOSEPH JUREK Seek to Establish Mentoring Program JOHN VAN DER SLICE . LEWJ:S NIELSON -=-=-=-"""by MARSHALL BIALQYSKY __ KENNETH A. JACOBS California State University-Dominguez Hills ORLANDO JACINTO GARCIA The SCI Committee on Women and Minorities had its first meeting at a luncheon CHARLES ARGERSINGER during the annual conference at the University of Alabama. Many topics were discussed LEWIS ROSENGARTEN in our attempts to include more women and minority members into the Society. One of DIANE THOME the most practical suggestions made ~was that we begin a mentoring program to assist MICHAEL SCHELLE younger members as they wend their way through academia or the professional music Paper presentations were given by: world. Other societies such as AMS, CMS and the Sonneck Society are beginning similar programs, and the idea seems to have broad support, especially from current women ROBERT ROLLIN members of SCI. I believe men have been a little slow, and I'm certainly one of them, DANIEL C. ADAMS to realize how important women and minorities would regard such a program. GEORGE BELDEN TIMOTHY KLOTH I have written to all regional co-chairs advising them of this new development and ANN STIMSON providing them with information about the,program. To quote from a Barbara Maris PETER SUSSER proposal from CMS, mentoring has to do with "what is expected within the profession, dealing with instructional matters, continuing professional growth, submitting research proposals, developing performance opportunities, balancing personal and professional needs, writing for professional journals, preparing materials for promotion reviews, establishing effective networks on local and national levels, and juggling institutional SCI Newsletter expectations for teaching/service/creative work." Ting Ho, Editor Quite a list, but of course every mentee will not need all of that. I've asked the Department of Music co-chairs to identify persons who would be likely to participate in such a program, but Montclair State College I'm also using this article to solicit names of interested members. Elizabeth Vercoe, a Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 committee member, is about to launch such a program in Region I, and Max Lifchitz, Other Business: co-chair of Region II has already volunteered his services for the program. We believe Martin Gonzalez, Exec. Secretary this program would be a significant new service of the Society, and one that might well Society of Composers, Inc. PO Box 296, Old Chelsea Station make our membership reflect the demographic realities of life today more accurately. New York, NY 10113-0296 Any SCI member wishing to discuss this further may write me at 84 Cresta Verde ~ 718/899-2605 Drive, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274, or call 310/541-8213.

Pagel The SCI Newsletter From the Membership Chair Competitions, Grants and Calls by DAVID VAYO Illinois Wesleyan University The following listings are condensed, to be present, and guest performers are and may not have complete information. welcome. Although performance of I'd like to remind all of you of two You're encouraged to contact the sponsor choral and orchestral works is a pos membership options which are less well sibility, most of the works performed will ing organizations directly for submission known than Full Membership to the be solos and chamber ensemble works. guidelines, particularly if anonymous sub Submission of works employing new Society, but which offer some attractive mission is required. "SSNo." refers to media or new combinations of media is features. Life Membership is available for your Social Security Number, which is encouraged. Abstracts of papers to be ten annual payments of $80, or a single presented during the conference may also often required on the score as your only payment of $550. I encourage members to be submitted; presentations dealing with identification. "SASE" means that a "self compositional craft, composition peda consider this option, since it saves a good addressed stamped envelope" should be gogy, and new compositional applications deal of money in the long run. Life Mem included if you want your materials of computer technology are particularly bership benefits are the same as those of welcome. returned. Full Membership, including a free record Each score submitted should be accom ing or Journal ofMusic Scores each year, Washington and Lee University panied by a tape (if available), one para even after all Life Membership install SCI Region III Conference graph of biographical information, and ments have been paid. September 15-16, 1992 one paragraph of program notes. Parts for Call for Scores works using five players or less should be If a local composers' organiz.ation be submitted with the score. Composers DEADLINE: May 15, 1992. wishing return of materials should enclose comes an institutional member in SCI, INSTRUMENTATION: Any combina an SASE. each of its members can join SCI as an tion of pno, 2 vln, 2 via, vc, fl, cl, alto individual Affiliate Member for a dis sax, ten sax; flute_ choir, incl. 3 bass fl, or CONTACT: SCI Region IV Conference, Don Freund, Conference Coordinator, counted year dues payment of $40. In smaller flute ens; solo pno, organ; solo or ens perc; brass quintet; SATB choir; Music Department, Memphis State dividual membership is necessary to sub- soprano, mezzo, bass-baritone vocal solo; University, Memphis, TN 38152. (\ mit work to SCI conferences, the CD small vocal ens; DAT or cassette tape. Series and Journal. Benefits of Affiliate All composers are invited to submit University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Membership are identical to those for Full scores for consideration for performance SCI Region V Conference Membership. during the Region III conference at March 4-6, 1992 Washington and Lee University. Scores Call for Scores and Proposals I'd also remind you that I'm always from all regions will be considered, al DEADLINE: Scores-June 1, 1992, Paper interested in hearing your ideas, sugges though priority will be given to R~gion ill Proposals-September 1, 1992. tions, kudos, complains, etc. regarding members. Composers of selected works INSTRUMENTATION: All orchestral are expected to attend, and non-SCI mem SCI. If you know of anyone who might be instruments, pno, harpsichord, perc, bers are expected to join. All performan soprano and tenor; chamber choir (30 interested in joining, please contact me ces will be recorded. Send scores, tapes, voices a cappella/pno); Le Chouer de and I'll send them materials about the SASE, biography, program notes, SCI femmes (women's voices a cappella/pno); organization. You can write me at the membership status, and stamped postcard ,string orch w/wo pno; perc and/or solo for acknowledgment of receipt of National Office, or call at 309/556-3068. instrument; perc ens; sax quai:tet; brass materials. trio (tpt, hn, trbn); pno duo/duet. CONTACT: Dr. Margaret Brouwer, Co This conference will feature guest ar Chair, SCI Region III, Department of tists David Cowley, cello, the Oakwood Music, Washington and Lee University, Chamber Players, the Collegium Cham Lexington, VA 24450. 703/463-8851. ber Players, the UWHARRIE Clarinet Correction Percussion Duo, and the University of ASCAP's Awards to Young Com Memphis State University Wisconsin Contemporary Music En semble. Seven concerts and four paper posers provide grants totalling $20,000 in SCI Region IV Conference November 19-21, 1992 sessions are planned, with the final pro prizes up to $2500. Composers up to age Call for Scores and Proposals gram set by early October. Works for the 30 years old may apply, even if they have Oakwood Chamber Players and Col completed their studies. Contact Frances DEADLINE: September 15, 1992. legium Chamber Players will be selected Richard, ASCAP Awards to Young Com All dues-paying members of SCI are by June. Also participating in this con invited to submit works for performance ference is the Wisconsin Alliance for posers, One Lincoln Plaza, New York, during the Region IV conference. Com Composers, Inc., who will present a con NY 10023. 212/621-6327. posers having works performed are expect cert of member works and the winning

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composition in their annual Student Com Barlow International Competition Association of Composers of Serbia position Contest. 1992 . Call for Scores This call is for a new series on contem CONTACT: James Chaudoir, Chair, SCI DEADLINE: July 1, 1992. AGE LIMIT: None. porary music, "The World Premiere,• to Region V Conference, Department of be presented by Belgrade Television. Music, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, INSTRUMENTATION: Orchestra (3-3- Works should be 3-15 minutes long, and Oshkosh, WI 54901. 3-3/5-3-3-114 perc/pno,harp/strings). DURATION: Min. 12 min. written for solo instruments, chamber en AWARD: $10,000 and performance by the sembles (including chamber orchestra) and National Band Association choir. 1992 Merrill Jones Memorial Baltimore Symphony, conducted by David Young Composer Band Zinman. CONTACT: Mrs. Snezana Nikolajevic, Composition Contest This competition solicits orchestral Editor of Serious Music, Belgrade works written after August, 1988. All or Television, 10 Takovska Street, 11000 DEADLINE: November 1, 1992. eligible, except winners of 1991 Barlow Belgrade, Yugoslavia; or Mr. Milan AGE LIMIT: Born on or after November competition and Barlow commissions. Sub Mihajlovic, President, Association of 1, 1992. mit anonymously a score and cassette con Composers of Serbia, 12-14 Misarska INSTRUMENTATION: Grade III/IV taining only the submitted work. No fee is Street, 11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Concert Band. required. 1993 Competition: Choral Music, DURATION: No restrictions. 1993 Competition: Band Music, 1994 American Guild of Organists AWARD: $1000, performance at a na Competition: Chamber Music. M. P. Moller, Inc. tional or regional music convention in Fourth Biennial Competition 1993. CONTACT: Barlow International Com for Choral Composition Submit full score and tape recording petition 1992, Harris Fine Arts Center, anonymously (including package labels) Brigham Young University, Provo, UT DEADLINE: July 31, 1992. of an original and unpublished concert 84602. AGE LIMIT: None. band work. Tape recording cannot be of INSTRUMENTATION: SATB chorus a synthesized performance. There are no Camillo Togni and organ. restrictions on style, form or length. Each Third Annual International DURATION: 2 112-5 min. composer may submit only one work. Composers Competition AWARD: $2000, publication by E.C.Schirmer, and performances at the CONTACT: Frank Wickes, Director of DEADLINE: May 30, 1992. 1993 regional AGO conventions and the Bands~ School of Music, Louisiana State AGE LIMIT: Born after December 31, 1994 National AGO Convention in Dallas, -University, -Baton-Rouge, LA..Jil801.__ 1951. TX. __ INSTRUMENTATION :T-H:i-mstruments Composers may submit one work for National Band Association from the following -- fl (incl picc or G fl), ob (incl E hn), clar (incl Bb, bass, picc), SATB chorus and organ, in which the 1992 Sixteenth Annual Band organ plays a distinctive role, based on Composition Contest bsn, hn, tpt, trbn, 2 vln, via, vc, cb, harp, guitar, 1 perc, pno, tape. biblical or poetic texts selected by the DEADLINE: November 1, 1992. DURATION: 4-15 min. Advisory Committee to the Competition. AGE LIMIT: None. AWARDS: 1st - 10,000,000 Lire,, publica Works must be unpublished. INSTRUMENTATION: Concert tion by RICORD! (Milan), performance CONTACT:Moller-AGO Award band/wind ensemble. during 1993 by CARME; 2nd - 5,000,000 Competition, American Guild of Or DURATION: No restrictions. Lire. ganists, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1260, AWARD: $3000 and performance at a Submit 3 copies of score anonymously, New York, NY 10115. 212/870-2310. national or regional music convention in with completed registration form, educa Fax: 212/870-2163. 1993. tion, declaration th~t composition is Submit full score and tape recording original, unedited, and never awarded Society for New Music anonymously (including package labels) another prize, consent for broadcast, short Brian M. Israel Prize 1992 of an original and unpublished concert description of work, receipt of entry fee of band work. Tape recording cannot be of 60,000 Lire paid into PO account no. DEADLINE: May 1, 1992. a synthesized performance. There are no 11540159, Nuovi Spazi Sonori, As AGE LIMIT: Born after May 1, 1962. restrictions on style, form or length. Each sociazione Italiana per la Musica Contem INSTRUMENTATION: 1-7 performers composer may submit only one work. poranea, cp 196-25100 Brescia (Italy). In of any instrument/voice/tape. No choral clude SASE for return of materials. Six works. CONTACT: NBA Composition Contest, finalists will be presented in public concert DURATION: None specified. c/o Dr. Gary W. Clepluch, Director of by CARME, followed by announcement of AWARD: $500 and performance by the Winds and Bands, Music Department, winners. Society for New Music. Haydn Hall, Case Western Reserve This competition is open to residents of University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7105. CONTACT: Alla Segreteria del Concorso New York State. Each composer may sub Intemazionale di Composizione •Camillo mit one work anonymously with cassette if Togni", c/o Associazione Nuovi Spazi available. Include cover sheet with title, Sonori, cp 196-25100 Brescia (Italy).

Page4 The SCI Newsletter duration, instrumentation, date of com National Orchestral Association CONTACT: Concordia American Com position, composer's name, address, New Music Orchestral Project posers Awards, c/o Concordia, 330 phone no. and date of birth. Seventh Avenue, 21st Floor, New York, DEADLINE: May 15, 1992. NY 10001. CONTACT: Ann Silsbee, Chair, Brian AGE LIMIT: None. M. Israel Prize, 915 Coddington Road, INSTRUMENTATION: Orchestra of Ithaca, NY 14850. 40-75 players (4-4-4-4/4-3-3-114 perc, 2 Kennedy Center harp, 2 keybd/12-12-10-8-6); opt. Friedheim Awards soloist(s), electronics, chorus. DEADLINE: May 15, 1992. DURATION: Max. 22 min. AGE LIMIT: None. Isabelle Ganz, Vocalist AWARD: Taped reading and perfor INSTRUMENTATION: Orchestra. Call for Scores mance at Carnegie Hall (NYC) January DURATION: Min. 15 min. Isabelle Ganz, recipient of an NEA 15, 1993 or May 8, 1993; costs of profes AWARDS: 1st-$5000, 2nd-$2500, 3rd Solo Recitalist grant for 1992-3, requests sional parts extraction will be covered. $1000, 4th-$500 (ties split the award). scores and tapes of works for solo voice, Composers may submit works not pre This competition solicits works that voice and tape, voice and one acoustic viously read, taped or performed in their have been premiered in the US July 1, instrument or synthes.izer, and/or voice, present form. Composers must be able to 1990 through April 30, 1992. Works may one acoustic instrument and tape. attend readings and performances and be not include voice, except in the context of available for consultation with copyist, CONTACT: Isabelle Ganz, 2317 South the instrumental fabric and without text. conductor and musicians. Submit scores gate Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030. All works must be received by the dead anonymously, and include resume/biog 713/667-6351. line date. Include nomination form, score, raphy, SASE, and a sample part, if avail three cassette recordings, three printed able. Final decision will be made by July programs (or clear photocopies) including 1, 1992. program notes, brief biography, fee of Experimental Music Consort $25, SASE, and if you wish them to be CONTACT: National Orchestral As notified if composition is selected in judg Greene County Council sociation, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 249, ing process, a list of local newspapers, on the Arts New York, NY 10115-0023. 212/870- radio and TV stations. Call for Scores 2009. DEADLINE: October 31, 1992. Judging is in three stages. Soon after INSTRUMENTATION: May 15th, 10 semi-final works will be Electronic/computer generated music selected, composers notified and a press -with MIDI accordion. Concordia American Composers notice released . .From these, four works Awards will be selected for performance at a con The Experimental Music Consort and cert by the National Symphony Orchestra the Greene County Council on the Arts, DEADLINE: September 15, 1992. AGE LIMIT: None. at the Kennedy Center, September 5, located in Catskill, NY, are planning a 1992. At the conclusion of the concert, the INSTRUMENTA TI ON: Chamber or series of live concerts of electronic/com winners will be ranked. puter generated music and MIDI accor chestra (2-2-2-2/2-2-112 perc, pno/8-7'-5- dion. The purpose of these concerts is to 4-2/4 opt instr (e.g., sax, harp, extra CONTACT: Ms. Robyn Guilliams, bring together composers and performers perc). Coordinator, Kennedy Center Friedheim who work in this media. Each composer DURATION: 8-15 min. Awards, John F. Kennedy Center for the selected to present music in the series will AWARDS: 1st - $2500, parts extraction, Performing Arts, Washington, DC be asked to collaborate with an upstate NY performance and tape; 2nd - $500, parts 20566-0001. accordionist. extraction, reading and tape; 3rd - $250, parts extraction, reading and tape; five Send proposal descriptions of the honorable mentions. electronic work with resume and equip Concours International ment requirements (all required equip Concordia is a chamber ensemble dedi cated to breaking down the barriers be de Musique Elecroacoustique ment must be provided by composer). Bourges 1992 Give commissioning history if applicable; tween jazz and classical music. The fees should include fees for composer and American Composers Awards competi DEADLINE: May 30, 1992. performers. Include tapes and other ap tion is open to any US citizen, and solicits AGE LIMIT: Composers less than 25 propriate support material, and SASE for works that haven't been performed in years old, but students of composition of return. NYC. Submit a complete score, cassette any age. (keybd reduction is acceptable), single DURATION: None, but 7-25 min. CONT ACT: Michael Torello, 15 Pres page resume, single page listing of pre recommended. byterian Hill Road, Stephentown, NY vious works and performances, perfor AWARDS: 3-6 residencies at one of the 12168. mance history of submitted composition, 6 Centers, including living expenses SASE for return of materials. (travel expenses may be covered in whole or part).

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The 1992 festival will feature a retrospective of prize-winning works Members' Activitie from 1973-1991. Competition is still open to young composers and composition stu Bachatelles for solo percussion by Prelude, Aria and Variatio11S (1980) b~ dents of any age to study in one of six RICHARD BROOKS was premiered by ELLIOTT SCHWARTZ and Tra11Sfor- - Centers. Submit up to two works realized Frank Cassara at Merrick, Long Island mations No. 3 (1984) by MAX LIF during the last two years, in DAT or (NY). The work was performed again, CHITZ were performed on the Julian reel-to-reel form. Submitted works may along with Clarinet Music: Hommage a Orbon Memorial Concert presented by have already been performed. Include Debussy at CW Post College (NY). Set North/South Consonance at Christ and St. with each a completed entry form. For Pieces for guitar and harpsichord was Stephen's Church, NYC. return of tapes, include postal money premiered at the Ethical Culture Society, order or international check in French NYC, by William Zito and Gerald Ranck. The world premiere of MARIO J. currency, made out to GMEB. PELUSl's A Musical Narrative for Cham TING HO's A Fool in Paradise for ber E11Semble was given by the Pittsburgh CONTACT: Maitre Miny, Huissier de , saxophone quartet was premiered recently New Music Ensemble, conducted by Justice, 1 rue Coursarlon, 18000 Bourges at Weill Recital Hall, NYC. The work was Timothy Russel, in Pittsburgh, PA. Two (France). composed with a grant awarded by other performances of the work were Montclair State College (NJ), and was presented by the Pro Musica Chamber performed in this premiere by Ed Joffe Orchestra of Columbus, OH. and members of the Montclair Saxophone Fulbright Scholar Awards Quartet. The work will again be per ANTHONY LIS' Bird on a Briar, for 1993-94 Competition formed in May at Montclair State. violin, clarinet, viola, cello and piano, was performed at Memphis State Univer DEADLINES: June 15, 1992 for mA-PAUL SCHWARZ has received sity as part of New Music Festival XX. Australasia and South Asia, August 1, a grant from the State University of New The performers included members of the 1992 for Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin York College at Brockport to record the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and stu America, Middle East and Canada, other soundtrack of his puppet-opera The Bear dents of the University. deadlines for special programs. and the Hunter. The story and dramatiza tion of the opera are by puppet master Oh The Northeastern Illinois University The Fulbright Scholar Program in Chamber Music Series presented Three Kon Cho from an ancient Korean folk tale. cludes over 1000 grants for research Modules (1980) for solo piano by ADA and/or lecturing in over 120 countries. The puppets will be designed and con structed by Mary Anne Brooks. BELLE MARCUS and Mirabilis (1990) __QJ?.R9rtunities range from two months to a -- - _b}' POZZI ESCQT._Q a program honor full academic year, with many assign Polyduality for cello solo by DANIEL ing "American Women Composers Mid ments flexible to the needs of the grantee. ADAMS was presented by David Garrett west." Basic eligibility requirements include US at the University of St. Thomas in a con citizenship, PhD or comparable profes cert presented by the Houston (fX) Com Nocturne and Valentine for harp by sional qualifications. Teaching experience posers Alliance. STEPHEN L. ROSENHAUS were is expected for lecturing awards, and lan premiered at New York University's guage proficiency for the host country is Myrad-Darym for four-channel .tape by Composers' Forum by Monika Jarecka. expected. Applications are encouraged STEPHEN L. SYVERUD was per The Ides, for soprano saxophone and from professionals outside academe and formed at the 1991 Society of Electro piano was premiered at Baird Auditorium from independent scholars. Acoustic Music national conference at the of the Smithsonian Institution, University of Illinois. John Sampen per Washington, DC, by Gary Louie and Wil CONTACT: Council for International formed Syverud's Fields of Ambrosia, liam Bloomquist. Rosenhaus was guest Exchange of Scholars, 3007 Tilden Street, Version I for alto saxophone and two composer for the New Music Symposium NW, Suite SM, Box NEWS, Washington, channel tape at the 12th annual New Music at the University of Wisconsin, Eau DC 20008-3009. 202/686-7877. and Art Festival at Bowling Green State Claire. Faculty and students performed University. Athanasios Zervas performed his Woodwind Quintet No. 2, Rondn for both versions of Fields of Ambrosia at oboe and piano, For Clarinet Solo, In Northwestern University, version II writ Flight Diary (Airport Lobsters), Short Bernard Rogers ten for alto saxophone, percussion and Symphony, Concerto Grosso and Kol Centennial Celebration piano. The Northwestern University Nidre Prelude. The centennial of Bernard Rogers birth Chamber Orchestra conducted by Don will occur on February 4, 1993. Those Owens performed Five Pieces for Cham MARC APFELSTADT has just com interested in participating in the centennial ber Orchestra at Pick-Staiger Concert pleted a quintet for MIDI ensemble, Quin celebration may obtain a free list of avail Hall. The May 1992 issue of the Music tandem, commissioned by the Digital Arts able works, indicating performing forces Educators Journal will contain Syverud's Consort of Illinois State University. The and publisher from JAMES WILLEY, article "Composing with Synthesizers." work is scored for two wind controllers, Department of Music, SUNY, Geneseo, guitar controller, keyboard controller and NY 14454. dual percussion controllers (mallet and Drum-KAT). The Digital Arts Consort _,,

Page6 The SCI Newsletter also gave two performances of BENJAMIN BOONE was a featured Symphony Orchestra on one of its New Apfelstadt's Duo for Wind Controllers composer at the ASCAP Louis Armstrong Directions Concerts, and Love in the Early (1990) in concert on the ISU campus and Jazz Composers Workshop in NYC. Morning was performed by soprano at the Greenview Arts Center in Chicago, Boone's Black Tears was performed. Le . Gabrielyn Watkins in Houghton, MI. IL. Four Songs ofLost Hope was recently Pont Mirabeau, a setting of Guillaume Wallach's The Tiger's Tail will appear on premiered in Greensboro, NC. This work Apollinaire's French poem for tenor and a Vienna Modem Masters CD in a perfor uses texts drawn from New York Puerto chamber ensemble, received second prize mance by the Polish Radio and TV Sym Rican street poetry. Apfelstadt also served in NACUSA's Young Composers' Com phony Orchestra, Krakow, with Szymon as a co-author for The Musical PC with position Competition. The Wood Nymph Kawalla conducting. RICHARD JOR Robert Moog and others, and has just of Nonacris for solo flute was performed DAN SMOOT's In the Twilight Kingdom received the first Department of Music at a New Directions in New Music Con for string orchestra received a perfor Alumni Achievement Award presented by cert sponsored by the Bakersfield Or mance by the Columbus (OH) Symphony his alma mater, Indiana State University. chestra Association. Orchestra in a concert at Ohio Northern University. The Central United Methodist Church Suite for Winds by EMIL AHNELL of Detroit, MI recently presented the was premiered in March by the TED LASHLEY' s Suite for Trumpet premiere of EUGENE HANCOCK's As Owensboro (KY) Symphony Orchestra, and Strings was premiered by the Smoke is Blown Away, an anthem for who last year premiered Ahnell's Patriots Louisiana State University New Music choir, brass, organ and timpani, and the Overture. Ensemble, conducted by Mikel LeDee, Detroit premiere of The Wrath of God for featuring Timothy Zifer, trumpet. organ. With the composer as organist, Several works by JOELLE WAL performers included the Chancel Choir of LACH have had recent premieres. The Jumping Jacks by STEPHANIA de Central United Methodist Church, the King's Twelve Moons, a chamber opera in KENESSEY received its world premiere choir of St. Matthew's Methodist Church one act, was premiered by the Magic by the Zephyrus Vocal Quintet at Donnell (Livonia, MI), Today's Brass Quintet and Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble at the Library (NYC), with additional perfor timpanist Gregory White. Open Eye Theatre, NYC. La musica, las mances at the New School for Social muertos y las estrellas in its vocal quartet Research and Christ and St. Stephen's JACKSON IIlLL's work Tholos, for version was presented by the Turnpike Church (NYC). large chamber orchestra, was premiered Camerata at Fairleigh Dickinson Univer by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, sity (NJ) and at Christ and St. Stephen's SY BRANDON's I Am Music for conducted by David Stock. The work was Church, NYC. Three Whitman Songs for chorus and orchestra was premiered by the commissioned by the ensemble in memory voice, clarinet, French horn and bassoon York (OH) Symphony Chorus and Or of Pittsburgh architect William Kerr, a was premiered by the American Chamber chestra, Robert Hart Baker, conductor. member of the Ensemble's board of direc Ensemble. Oneiros, the dream, received Decade 1990 was performed by the Mil tors. a performance by the Bakersfield (CA) lersville University Symphonic Band.

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