In this issue: Patricia Atkins-Chiti James Bicigo Carolyn Bremer Cora Cooper Tsippi Fleischer Cynthia Folio Yen-Lin Goh Katherine Hoover Margaret Lucia Migiwa Miyajima Mona Lyn Reese Sarah Reid Christina Rudnak Chaowen Ting Margaret Lucy Wilkins Reviews Reports IAWM News Awards In Memory of Members’ News Patricia Adkins-Chiti Fondazione Adkins-Chiti: Donne in Musica

Table of Contents Volume 24, Number 2 (2018) Articles Memories of Patricia Adkins-Chiti ...... James Bicigo, Margaret Lucy Wilkins, Tsippi Fleischer ...... 1 New Interfaces, New Sounds: On Electronic Musical Instruments and Controllers ...... Sarah Reid ...... 3 Oh, the Places You’ll Goh ...... Yen-Lin Goh ...... 7 The Poetic Muse: Piano Compositions by Spanish Women ...... Margaret Lucia ...... 11 Women Composer Representation in the College Orchestra Repertoire, 2016-17 ...... Chaowen Ting ...... 14 Landscape Music: Rivers & Trails ...... Christina Rusnak ...... 19 New Initiatives The Young Women Composers Camp: Amplifying the Voices of Young Women ...... Cynthia Folio ...... 21 A New Force for Advocacy in the United States: The Boulanger Initiative ...... Cora Cooper ...... 22 Meet Two New IAWM Members Migiwa “Miggy” Miyajima ...... 23 Mona Lyn Reese ...... 24 In Memoriam: Carolyn Bremer and Katherine Hoover ...... 25 Reviews: book, concert, compact disc Denise Von Glahn: Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life ...... Robert Black ...... 26 Speaking Her Truth: Three Vocal Works by Jessica Rudman ...... Elizabeth R. Austin ...... 27 “Mademoiselle,” Lili Boulanger, and Louise Talma...... Deon Nielsen Price ...... 27 Eleonor Bindman and Jenny Lin: The Brandenburg Duets: Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos ...... Krystal J. F. Grant ...... 28 Violeta Dinescu: Dialog: Wünsche, Ängste, Träume (Wishes, Fears, Dreams) ...... Monica Buckland ...... 29 Four Women: Music for Solo Piano by Price, Kaprálová, Bilsland, and Bonds ...... Judith Mabary ...... 30 Elena Ruehr: Six String Quartets ...... Tamara Cashour ...... 31 Recent CD Releases ...... 32 Reports : The Encontro Internacional de Cordas Festival ...... Rain Worthington ...... 33 Canada: Kelly-Marie Murphy: Winner of Canada’s Largest Composition Prize ...... 33 The Association of Canadian Women Composers ...... Diane Berry ...... 34 The Kapralova Society ...... Karla Hartl ...... 34 : China Goes Global Conference ...... Susan Cohn Lackman ... 34 : A World Premiere by Giovanna Dongu ...... 35 : The frauenkomponiert Music Festival 2018 ...... Karla Hartl ...... 35 : BBC Proms Survey 2018 ...... Jenny Fowler ...... 36 The Hellenic Institute Performs Lydia Kakabadse’s Odyssey ...... 36 IAWM News Winners of the IAWM 2018 Search for New Music Competition ...... 37 Meet IAWM’s New Membership Chair and Three New Board Members ...... 39 Awards and Honors ...... 40 IAWM 2018 Annual Concert Competition ...... 41

Members’ News ...... Anita Hanawalt ...... 41 New Initiatives The Young Women Composers need to reserve dormitories for these stu- performance component to the camp, ap- Camp: Amplifying the Voices dents who came from far away. We ended propriately singing music by women com- of Young Women up hosting eighteen girls who came to the posers. Students spent many hours outside YWCC with various levels of composi- of class attending private composition les- CYNTHIA FOLIO - sons, studying the course materials, and posed a piece before, while others had - her innovative idea of creating a summer written chamber or orchestral works. ects. They also had opportunities to take camp for high school girls at Temple Uni- There was a mix of ages as well: our versity (Philadelphia), I was captivated! youngest student was 15 and our oldest was students attended a swing and blues con- My immediate thought was that I wished 19. A few of the older students had already cert, received a private tour of the Phila- this opportunity had been available when been accepted as composition majors at delphia Orchestra music library, and went I was in high school from 1968 to 1972. universities for the fall 2018 semester, so to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in ad- I had no role models and had no idea that the camp served as preparation for their dition to several night-time activities on women could compose. Even today, most university studies. Some high school ju- campus (craft night, movie night, etc.). music classrooms and ensembles focus on niors hoped to develop their skills in order We hosted guest composer Missy 3 the music written by men, which complete- to apply to universities during their senior Mazzoli for a day. She talked to the girls ly overpowers and diminishes the works year; these juniors now have a high-quality about her experience as a woman com- written by women and sends the message performance of the string quartet that they poser and how she approaches her own to a younger generation that their creations wrote during the camp. Others just came compositional process. The students also are not as important, or not seen as being to explore what it might be like to be sur- equally valid. rounded by other young women who were Percussion Summer Institute at Princeton Erin is from a much younger genera- tion, but she also felt isolated as a woman rehearsals of percussion works composed who wanted to compose. She had this vi- by Princeton Ph.D. composers, attended a sion of organizing such a camp for several workshop of a multi-percussion piece by years, and once I agreed that Temple Uni- - versity would be the perfect host institu- pated in an interactive discussion about the tion, she immediately took on the awesome 4 5 responsibility as both Founder and Artistic Snider and Caroline Shaw. Getting the chance to meet these incredible musicians Director of what would be called the Young Young Women Composers Camp Chorale Women Composers Camp (YWCC).1 while they were still in high school was As chair of the Music Studies Depart- interested in composition. Regardless of not lost on our students; in an anonymous ment at Temple, I became the facilitator and, age, experience, and musical backgrounds, ultimately, one of the teachers at the camp. the girls bonded during this two-week epic! Never knew lamps were percussive Erin and I jointly applied for a grant from camp in a way that we could hardly envi- instruments until this trip!” Temple University’s Vice Provost for Re- sion. This mix of experience and age helped The camp culminated with a recital search, the “Humanities and Arts Program to foster an environment of mutual support of eighteen premieres for string quartet Award,” and received the full amount re- and peer-to-peer learning in a way we never from all the participants (varying in length quested: $10,500. Erin was able to bring in could have imagined. When it was time for from thirty seconds to two minutes) by the more revenue from various sources, includ- everyone to go home, there were many sin- - ing funding from PPA Project Stream, the cere expressions of friendship and camara- hearsed and performed these pieces in one 2 Philadelphia chapter of the American Com- derie, including tears and hugs. day. Each piece was part of a set of four or posers Forum, and several private donors. During the two-week camp (July - This money was used to reduce tuition costs eral selections performed by the all-partic- from $700 to $350 per student, enabling hours in class, learning about various sub- ipant chorale. the attendance of some of our students who jects related to music composition such as The excitement generated by this come from lower-income households. basic music theory, contemporary com- - To our surprise, we not only received age. WRTI (Philadelphia’s premiere radio local applications from Philadelphia and instruments, electronic music history and station for classical and jazz, housed at the surrounding areas, but also from wom- composition, orchestration, jazz improvi- Temple University) featured a news story 6 en composers from around the country, sation, songwriting, setting text, notation, by Meridee Duddleston and invited the including young women in Oregon, South music publishing, and more. These demon- girls for a Facebook Livestream perfor- 7 Dakota, Kentucky, Maryland, and Con- strations on various topics were presented mance. This video includes performances necticut. We had not anticipated such a na- by a combination of Temple faculty and of three of the newly-created string quar- tional response, and we suddenly realized local Philadelphia musicians. Our students tets, performed live by the ATLYS quartet, late in the spring of 2018 that we would also sang in a chorale in order to add a along with interviews by the three featured

New Initiatives 21 student composers. It also includes the cho- Creative Achievement Award in 2012 and the the idea that women have composed, and rale singing a Fanny Mendelssohn piece Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in do compose, music. accompanied by the ATLYS quartet, under 1994. Her compositions appear on a number Commissions: supporting the com- the direction of Marianne Gruzwalski. of CD’s, including three of her own—Inverno position and performance of new music, Azul; Flute Loops: Chamber Music for Flute; In their evaluations of this camp, stu- to foster awareness, create possibility, and and Portfolio. Erin Busch is a current Ph.D. dent responses were overwhelmingly posi- candidate in music composition at the Uni- inspire creativity. tive, with the girls listing this camp as a versity of Pennsylvania. She previously taught “life-changing experience,” saying that theory and composition at Temple University, agenda items, the Initiative will celebrate their perspectives on the music industry, where she earned a B.M. in Music Composi- women composers in a major launch festi- community, and their own ability has been tion (’13) and M.M. in Music Composition and val that will take place at multiple venues forever changed. The following excerpts Cello Performance (’15). throughout Washington, D.C. This event are from anonymous evaluations: “I have NOTES is scheduled for March 8-10, 2019, to [improved as a composer] because I’m 1 www.youngwomencomposers.org coincide with International Women’s Day, surrounded by really talented people in our 2 The promotional video created by REC. and will present three days of nonstop class and the teachers, who are exposing TODAY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- musical and educational programming. me to new things I wouldn’t know other- gFA285zY2s&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop In keeping with the mission, there will be 3 wise!” “This is the most challenged musi- http://www.missymazzoli.com/ concerts featuring chamber music groups, 4 https://sarahkirklandsnider.com/ cally (in a good way) I have felt in a long ensembles, and soloists, as well as master- 5 https://carolineshaw.com/ time!” “I learned more about percussion 6 WRTI radio feature by Meridee Dud- classes, demonstrations, panel discussions dleston (July 16, 2018): http://www.wrti.org/ on inclusion in classical music program- Princeton] than in six years in band! Now, I post/new-summer-program-philly-focuses-teen- ming, and more. While performers and have goals to compose pieces for chamber age-girls-learning-art-classical-composition presenters of all gender identities are wel- percussion ensemble.” 7 The live video broadcast by WRTI on comed and celebrated, the musical reper- Every student answered the question their Facebook Page: https://www.facebook. toire performed will come from the litera- in the evaluation that they would consider com/WRTImusic/videos/2157447790945574/ ture of music composed by women (past coming back (some with the caveat that and present). they will be too old next year). We are now A New Force for Advocacy Each evening of the festival will fea- planning the 2019 camp (check our web- in the United States: ture one “main stage event,” which will The Boulanger Initiative be a performer or chamber music group of new expansions for the program, including international recognition, in conjunction CORA COOPER a technology track for girls who are inter- with a composer or composers that they ested in electronic music composition and The Boulanger Initiative (www.boulange- have worked with or from whom they have elective opportunities for all students. We rinitiative.org) is a new Washington, D.C.- commissioned works. These main stage also hope to collaborate with local music based organization founded by Joy-Leilani performers will be involved in multiple organizations to help provide year-round Garbutt and Laura Colgate, two young events throughout the day, ending with a musicians whose doctoral work with wo- men composers inspired them to become between performer and composer (a Rob The YWCC would certainly not have advocacy activists for women in music. Kapilow “What Makes It Great”-esque The Initiative’s stated mission is “to work production) at the end of the day. Daytime P. Brown (Assistant Dean for Administra- towards greater inclusivity, and to enrich festival events will include local perfor- - our collective understanding of what mu- mers and ensembles. Following the festi- - sic is, has been, and can be.” This positive val in March, the Initiative will continue lia Alford (administrative assistant to the message guides them towards imagining its performance series with a full season of chair), and would not have been as suc- and helping to create a future more inclu- concerts for the 2019-2020 season. Every cessful without the valuable instruction of concert will be dedicated to presenting and future. The group plans to utilize a music composed by women, with an initial This inaugural summer camp also owes three-pronged approach to promote music focus on repertoire for chamber ensembles its success to the unwavering support of composed by women. Activities are divi- and soloists. our Dean of CPCA, Robert Stroker, and ded into the categories of performance, Education and outreach events will the above-mentioned grant from Temple education, and commissions. begin with school visits leading up to the University. We hope that the YWCC will Performance: a concert series de- festival in March. In conjunction with continue to grow and expand each year, voted to presenting music composed by local educators, the Initiative is currently and will contribute, in part, to closing the women, past and present, striving to chal- developing a lesson plan/presentation that gender gap in music composition and cre- lenge established inequalities in concert can be adapted to elementary, middle, and ating more opportunities for young women programming. high school classes. During the months of around the world. Education: lectures, publications, January and February, Boulanger Initiative Cynthia Folio is Professor and Chair of Music workshops, school visits, and masterclasses Ambassadors (experienced musicians and Studies at Temple University, where she won the to help expose students and audiences to educators) will visit schools in the D.C.

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