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71 71 71 7EVENTY F1RST SAI COMPOSERS BUREAU st ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS 1 UPDATE SONATA 1, OP. 21 7 by Richard Crosby SAI Philanthropies, Inc. Winter 2020 Digital Exclusive 71 71 71 7EVENTY F1RST • SAI Alumna/Patroness st • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member 71 COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate igma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, A candidate for membership in the SAI Inc. is pleased to present the Composers Bureau must show a pattern of S71st Annual Composers Bureau continued activity as a composer of concert Update. This resource is provided to music. In addition, prospective members share information about the work of must meet any one of the following criteria: contemporary American Composers, • Publication by a recognized publisher including premieres, performances, • Performance by professionals in a recordings, new publications, and other professional concert venue exciting news about their upcoming • Performance by professionals on national projects. This annual publication has radio or television become an important and valued resource Names for possible inclusion, together for scholars, researchers, and those with the composer’s credentials, should be Susan Cohn Lackman, Ph.D., M.B.A. interested in discovering new music for sent to the Composers Bureau Director, Dr. Director, Sigma Alpha Iota performances. Our online Composers Composers Bureau Susan Cohn Lackman, at: Bureau contains a full listing of bureau [email protected] members and links to their websites. COVER COMPOSER RICHARD A. CROSBY Richard Crosby, has been demonstrate outstanding at EKU more than two a faculty member since abilities in teaching, decades ago with the help D r. 1986 at Eastern Kentucky service, and research. of Brenda Ray and your University, where he teaches piano and No stranger national staff, and have music history. Born in Ohio and raised to the rewards and been very supportive of the in Florida, he received his B.M. in music responsibilities of girls in our chapter. education, a M.M. in piano performance fraternal music life, he I am a pianist by training, and wind conducting, and his DMA in piano has undertaken many but as a composer I am performance, all from the University of roles in Phi Mu Alpha self-taught. I had tinkered Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Sinfonia. Crosby served with composing off and Ohio. 18 years on the National on in my 20s and 30s, As a pianist, he is heard frequently in Executive Board, including but it was only after four concert performances of solo and chamber three terms as National surgeries on my hands and music. He has released a CD through President. He remains the fear that my performing Capstone Records entitled An American Governor of Province 25, a days were behind me that Portrait, containing works by Charles position he has held since I turned more seriously Griffes, Amy Beach, William Grant Still, 1988. He also served for towards composing. My Lee Hoiby, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, David 12 years as a trustee on first serious, major work Guion, and George Gershwin. Richard has the Sinfonia Educational was my Trombone Sonata, also distinguished himself as a successful Foundation. written in 2003. Thanks to an amazing composer, penning works in a variety In a telephone conversation, he surgeon I have recovered my ability to of genres including songs for voice and reminisced about his longtime, treasured perform but I still put a good bit of time piano, solo selections for piano and organ, friendship with former SAI National into composing. I determined from the several chamber sonatas, and individual President Ginny Johnson during their start that I would write the kind of music commissioned pieces for concert band, concurrent years of fraternity leadership. that I wanted to hear and not worry about wind ensemble, and chorus. Dr. Crosby’s When asked about his thoughts on being pleasing anyone else. I have found that works are published by Southern Music, selected as an honored Composer-Judge stance very liberating. I am a Romantic by Prairie Dawg, Press, TRN, and Northeastern for IAMA, Richard offered this summary nature, and my music is tonal, although I Music Publications, Inc. In 2014, he encapsulating his personal connection to continue to stretch my horizons in the use was the recipient of the 2014-16 EKU SAI: of dissonance. I am pleased to be given Foundation Professorship, the university’s “I am very proud to be a National the chance to write a work for the 2018 SAI highest honor for teaching excellence. Arts Associate of SAI. I played a major role National Convention and I look forward to The annual award recognizes those who in helping to establish the SAI chapter sharing my music with all of you.” 2 Winter 2020 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 71 71 71 7EVENTY F1RST • SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts st • • • National Arts Associate ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE 1 JAMES ADLER ••• Silences, SATB and Piano, poetry by Jeffrey Band, Grade 2. Published by7 LFA Music. PREMIERES: FANFARE XL, Symphonic Band, Gilden, GIA Publications, Chicago: April NEWS: Lori Ardovino was chosen as Composer Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band, 2020. Choral Meditation: The Gift of Time, of the Year by the Alabama Music Teachers Henco Espag, conductor, Saint Bartholomew’s GIA Publications, Chicago: summer 2020. National Association. She has also completed Church on Park Avenue, NY, 4/13/19. A Cat, Entire catalogue of choral music published by two commissions; Convergence for two clarinets A Bird, and Winter Fur, SATB Choir and piano, HINSHAW Music, Inc. is now available through for the Amaciata Duo and Palaver Between Central Regional High School, Beth Moore, Jerry Bock Music, distributed by Hal Leonard. Friends for flute, clarinet and piano for Trio Leo. conductor, Bayville, NJ, 5/21/19. NEWS: Developmental workshop No Parking, PERFORMANCES: Canticle (Letting Go; Moving On), a music-theater piece LAUREN BERNOFSKY PREMIERES: for Peace, Debra Rue, lyrics, about Alzheimer’s, written with Elizabeth Antamina, Prelude Chamber Strings, Lauren Bernofsky, conductor, at Christ SATB Choir, 3 Trumpets in B-flat, Bassine, using characterizations colored Cathedral, Garden Grove, CA, 5/11/19. O, Organ, American Music Concert by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. At Cosmos from the Vonnegut Requiem, Voces at Broadway Baptist Church, the Nautilus Music-theater, in St. Paul, MN, Novae, Susan Swaney, Fort Worth, TX, 2/24/19; early summer 2020. Premiere Production: conductor, Unitarian Universalist sponsored by the SAI Fort Worth Abraham’s Land, a music theater work about Church, Bloomington, ADLER Alumnae Chapter. Homages the crisis in GAZA, written with Lauren Goldman IN, 5/12/19. Haubrich & Remembrances, CD launch Marshall, at the Broadway Performance Hall, Suite, Monarch Brass, recital, James Adler, pianist-composer, with Seattle, WA, 9/17–27/20. How Green was International Women’s Brass Cain-Oscar Bergeron, flute, Yamaha Artist My Valley, a music-theater piece written with Conference, Arizona State Services Piano Salon, 11/12/19. Flute and Elizabeth Bassine, and based on the novel by University, Tempe, AZ, 5/25/19. BERNOFSKY Piano Sonatine by Gaubert, also, James Richard Lewellyn, received a Director’s Choice PERFORMANCES: Three Adler’s Celebration, from Elegy for Norman, Award, by Boradway director Michael Mayer Portraits of a Witch, Atlanta Philharmonic, Amy James Adler, pianist-composer, Scott Oaks, in an international competition by Mainstreet Wilson, conductor, North Decatur Presbyterian flute, QUOtets XIV Chamber Concert, LGBTQ Musicals. As a result, it received 5 Equity Church, Decatur, GA, 5/5/19. From a Mother’s Community Center, New York, 12/8/19. ‘workshop readings,’ in various cities in the U.S. Journal, Nicole Abissi, trombone, Hanako PUBLICATIONS: FANFARE XL, symphonic band It awaits its first full production, and is currently Yamagato, piano, International Trombone published by AdlerOaks Music Library. A Cat, negotiating with the Welsh National Opera. Festival, Ball State University, Muncie, A Bird, and Winter Fur, SATB Choir and piano, IN, 7/12/19. Heart of Fire, Intermediate Colle Voce Music. LORI ARDOVINO • Concert Orchestra, Liber Cuervos, conductor, RECORDINGS: Homages & Remembrances, PREMIERES: Letters: The Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, released on Albany Records 8/1/19, music by poetry of Anne Bradstreet”, MI, 8/3/19. Concerto for Trumpet, John Paul Turok, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Melanie Williams, soprano, Rommel, trumpet, Bloomington Symphony Debussy, Henco Espag, Modeste Mussorgsky, Lori Ardovino, clarinet, Laurie Orchestra, Charles Latshaw, conductor, Buskirk- and pianist-composer James Adler. Middaugh, piano, Alabama Chumley Theater, Bloomington, IN, 10/6/19. NEWS: Wrote an article on “Homages & Music Teachers Association, Passacaglia, Boston Symphony Chamber Remembrances” for international Sonograma Auburn University, Auburn, AL. Players, Springdale Barrel Room, Franingham, ARDOVINO Magazine (Spain), published 10/29/19. 5/30/19; also, Birmingham MA, 3/1/20. Commission to compose Beyond Night for lyric Art Music Alliance New Music PUBLICATIONS: Fandango (solo cello), baritone and piano; poetry by my late friend Festival, Smaford Univerisyt, 10/16/19. The Theodore Presser. 7th Street Beat (string – and friend of the Arts, Rosalie Calabrese Nine Worlds, Brittany Patterson, flute, Lori orchestra), Carl Fischer. Monster Mambo