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SAI Philanthropies, Inc. Winter 2019 Digital Exclusive • SAI Alumna/Patroness ANNUAL AMERICAN • • Friend of the Arts th • • • National Arts Associate COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • Honorary Member 70 • • • • • Member Laureate Dear Reader, to members of SAI, through their annual updates and sharing but also to libraries of information with other composers. Our igma Alpha Iota Philanthropies and schools. This reports link composers to one another, is pleased to bring you the magazine is listed in to performers eager to program and newest Composers Bureau the MUSIC INDEX, commission new music, to students who SUpdate, the 70th in a stream which includes a crave music that is fresh and new. of annual reports from the field. separate entry for The SAI Composers Bureau is a Composers are hard at work, having each composer in the project of SAI Philanthropies, Inc., the success in getting premieres, second “American Composer Update: Premieres, charitable arm of Sigma Alpha Iota. It is a and third performances, recordings, and Performances, Publications, Recordings, privilege to support American composers publications. News tells of commissions and News.” In addition, information in the by publicizing their work. So, to all who and opportunities. The IAMA premieres issue is used to update the information use the Composers Bureau Update, know at the 2018 SAI National Convention are on the SAI Composers Bureau website that this is a part of SAI’s core mission: to here—works by Steve Cohen, Richard with direct links to composers’ webpages, encourage, nurture, and support the art Crosby, and Bonnie Janofsky. These can biographies, and annual reports; a of music. Thank you! be ordered from C.F. Peters Corporation. website that is visited by performers, And, as you will read, audiences teachers, librettists, and composers who Cordially, around the world hear the music of are interested in finding new music by Susan Cohn Lackman, Ph.D., M.B.A. our Composers Bureau members! The American composers. Director, Sigma Alpha Iota American Composers issue goes not only Composers Bureau members inspire Composers Bureau

COVER COMPOSER STEVE COHEN teve Cohen received his training (for Psalm 84 and Psalm 121), the 2007 at the Manhattan, Eastman and New York Treble Singers Composition Juilliard Schools of Music, and Award (for Hashkiveinu), 2006 and Shas composed a large catalog 2008 Shalshelet Festival Awards (for of symphonic, chamber, liturgical and Hashkiveinu and Y’did Nefesh) and the musical-theater pieces. 2008 Aeros Prize (Wind Quintet). Cohen’s choral music has been He received his Bachelor’s in Music performed by the Zamir Chorale, Kol from the Manhattan School of Music prior Zimrah (Chicago), the Zemel Choir of to furthering his education at The Juilliard London and the Gregg Smith Singers, School and the Eastman School of Music - and is heard regularly at Congregation 1978, ’84, ’87 (Arrangers Lab Institute) Emanu-El of New York City and the North He is a member of Broadcast Music, American Jewish Choral Festival. Inc., the American Music Center, the Honors for Cohen’s music include American Society of Music Copyists, and the 2004 Composer’s Award given jointly the Society of Composers and Lyricists. by the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra His Toccata Veronese won the and the Museum in the Community (for 2018 SAI Inter-American Music Award the orchestral piece Juggernaut), first Competition and was performed by IAMA and second prizes in the 2006 Susan Director Sara Bong at the 2018 SAI Galloway Sacred Song Award contest National Convention in Scottsdale, AZ.

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H. LESLIE ADAMS NACUSA, University of Alabama, Everything, Kirkland Choral70 Society, Glann PREMIERES: L’Amour eternal, Birmingham, 6/8/18; Auburn Gregg, director, Beady Eyes Publishing, flute and , Greater University, Montgomery, AL, Bastyr University Chapel, Kenmore, WA, Cleveland Flute Society Recital, 11/14/18; Jules Collins 5/19/18. Longing for Home, Clara Osowski, University Circle, Cleveland, Art Museum, Auburn, AL, mezzo-soprano; Mary Jo Gothmann, piano, OH, 4/22/2018. Dream Song, 12/13/18; University of Westminster Hall, Minneapolis, MN, 8/6/18. voice and piano, “An Evening Montevallo, 1/14/19; Shelton Morning Hymn, Plymouth Congregational with Countertenor Darryl Taylor,” State College, 1/22/19. ARDOVINO Church Choir, Philip Brunelle, director, Plymouth National Opera Center, Scorca PERFORMANCES: Tetrad ADAMS Congregational Church, 9/30/18. Hall, New York, NY, 4/3/2018. Equinox for soprano, , cello, and piano, PERFORMANCES: The World Beloved: A PERFORMANCES: Since Auburn University, Montgomery, 11/14/18 Bluegrass Mass, The Choristers, You Went Away, For You There Is No Song, NEW PUBLICATIONS: Potenza Music: Eloquence David Spitko, DePue Brothers An Evening with Countertenor Darryl Taylor, III for Trumpet; Eloquence IV for Eb Clarinet; Band, Trinity Lutheran Church, National Opera Center, 3/2/2018. Under Water for clarinet, piano and narrator; Landale, PA, 4/28/17; also Progressive Duets for clarinet and bass clarinet. The Plano Civic Chorus, Ralph JAMES ADLER ••• Pat a Pan, arranged for Young Band, LFA Music. Frederick Stannard, Monroe PREMIERES: A Cat, A Bird, and Winter Fun, NEW RECORDINGS: A Quiet Piece: New Music Crossing, Plano, TX, 10/13- BARNETT SATB, Bayville, NJ, Central Regional High School, for Saxophone by Living Women Composers, 14/18; Stockton Chorale, Dr. Beth Moore, conductor, May 2019. FANFARE Lori Ardovino, saxophone, Laurie Middaugh, Bruce Southard, Stockton, Lodi, CA, 10/20- th XL, composed for 40 LGBTC Big Apple Choir, piano, Melanie Williams, voice 21/18. Song of Perfect Propriety, Canzona St. Bartholomew’s Church, NY, 4/13/19. Elegy NEWS: Lori Ardovino is currently working on Women’s Ensemble, Cricket Handler, Jill for Norman, in memory of Dr. Norman T. Adler two projects. “The Trees of Tinglewood” for Anderson, earthsongs, San Luis Obispo, CA, z’’l, Cain-Oscar Bergeron, flute, Adler, piano, clarinet and piano is inspired by the carvings 11/4/18. Yamaha Artist Services, 4/10/18. Daughters of Tim Tingle, a Montevallo, AL resident known NEW PUBLICATIONS: Mortals & Angels: A of Music, SSA, French horn, and piano, Debra for his interesting and creative carvings in the Bluegrass Te Deum, Boosey & Hawkes. Tagore’s Rue (president of the SAI Ft. Worth Alumnae local park. She is also working on a song cycle Lost Star, G. Schirmer. My People Are Rising, E. Chapter), lyric, was featured at for the LeBaron Trio (soprano voice, clarinet, C. Schirmer. the SAI National Convention in and piano) using the poetry of Anne Bradstreet, NEW RECORDINGS: Mortals & Angels: A Scottsdale, AZ in July. This was the most prominent of early English poets of Bluegrass Te Deum (CD includes Micah 6:8, Into performed by the Fort Worth North America and first writer in England’s North the Fire. Alumnae Singers & Friends, Dr. American colonies to be published. NEWS: I served on three mentorship teams: Jerome Bierschenk, conductor Lori Ardovino was awarded the Alabama Music VocalEssence’s Remix; American Composers and James Adler, piano. Canticle Teachers Association Composer Commission Forum/Minnesota Public Radio’s Minnesota for Peace, Debra Rue, lyric, ADLER for 2019. She will compose a song cycle setting Varsity; American Composers Forum’s Next James Adler, piano, SAI Fort the poetry of Ann Bradstreet. She is published Worth Alumnae Chapter, 2/24/19. by Potenza Music and LFA Music. More of her Notes. NEW PUBLICATIONS: A Winter Tryptch, Colla music can be found on her website, www. Voce Music. loriardovino.com and www.potenzamusic.com ROBERT BOURY ••• NEW RECORDINGS: A Winter Triptych, Judson PREMIERES: Three Lost Waltzes, Norman Memorial Church Choir (NY), Hence Espag, ELIZABETH R. AUSTIN • Boehm, piano, University of Arkansas at Little director, Albany Records. Elegy for Norman, PERFORMANCES: B-A-C- Rock, Fine Arts Concert Hall, Little Rock, AR, Albany. Homage, Kevin Bishop (Cuatro 4/8/18. NEWS: Sonograma Magazine published Puntos), viola, Miguel Campinho, PERFORMANCES: Dialogue an article by James Adler, focusing on the piano; Women Composers (Divine and Human) for inspirations and composition of his “A Winter Festival of Hartford, CT, 4/6/18. Sopranino Saxophone and Triptych.” Read the full article here: http:// Three Rilke Lieder: Autumn Day Piano, World Saxophone sonograma.org/2018/06/a-winter-triptych/ (Herbsttag), Richard Mix, bass, Congress, Zagreb, Croatia, And learn more about “A Winter Triptych” Berkeley, CA 9/13/18. A Child’s AUSTIN Zagreb Academy of Music, Andy on the Albany Records website: http://bit. Garden of Music Marvin Rosen, Wen, Saxophone, John Krebs, ly/2FQ8RkV, 6/29/18. piano, Elizabethtown, NJ, 9/16/18. Piano, 6/11/18; also Andy Wen, BOURY NEW RECORDINGS: B-A-C-Homage (2007), saxophone and Robert Boury, LORI F. ARDOVINO • Laura Krentzmann, viola, Erberk Eryilmaz, piano, piano, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, PREMIERES: Nattamara, University of New Navona Records (NV6188), 10/18. 2/3/19. I am Just a Whisper in the Wind and Mexico, 1/27/18; also, NACUSA, University of Trying to Pray, Ruth Sieber Johnson, Soprano, Montevallo, 6/7/18; Single Reed Symposium, CAROL BARNETT •••• Melissa Ferguson, Piano, Trinity Episcopal University of Montevallo, 1/13/19. Nonsense PREMIERES: My People Are Rising, Elektra Church, Springfield, IL, 9/23/18. “The Music of Songs, for soprano, clarinet, and piano, CMS/ Women’s Choir, Morna Edmundson, director, Robert Boury,” Norman Boehm, piano, Suzanne NACWPI, Vancouver, Canada, 10/13/2018; St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church, Banister, soprano, University of Arkansas at also, NACUSA, University of Montevallo, 6/7/18; Vancouver, BC, 3/3/18. Dance Then To Little Rock, 10/14/18.

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70JEANNE ROWLEY BURULL Workshop, Ft. Meyer, VA, 3/9/18. Concerto for his website at http://www.brixtonpublications. NEWS: My creative efforts this past year have Marimba and Percussion Ensemble, Nick Bruno, com/howard_j_buss-2.html During 2018 focused on developing and using a beginning USF Percussion Ensemble, McCormick Marimba Howard J. Buss received an AscaPlus Award piano format that combines Festival, University of South Florida, Tampa, from the American Society of Composers, Suzuki and other methods to 1/27/18; also, 7/22/18. Flute Pizzazz, Nora Authors, and Publishers in recognition of work with a group of home Lee Garcia, flute, Theresa Bogard, piano, Florida significant performances of his music. His school students, ages 7 to 11 Flute Convention, Orlando Airport Marriott composition The Three Sackbuteers Enter years. We sing and dance to Convention Center, 1/27/18; also, Garcia, Valhalla for trio was winner of what we play as a group, then flute, Laurent Boukobza, piano, National Flute the 2018 American Trombone Workshop’s follow up with individual lessons Convention, Hyatt Regency Convention Center, Composition Contest sponsored by the and homework. Each child is BURULL Orlando, 8/10/18. Vibrant Horizons, Brian U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own. He was different, of course. One boy Luce, flute, Rex Woods, piano, Florida Flute commissioned to write works for the opening makes it a habit to flavor everything I try to teach Convention, 1/27/18. Zephyrs of the Dawn, and final gala concerts of the 50th Anniversary him with his own imaginative quirk, then turns South Florida Flute Orchestra, Marie Schwartz, of the International Horn Symposium. He was to me with a wry smile. Those improvisations director, Florida Flute Convention, 1/27/18; also commissioned to write a new solo flute followed my encouraging the students to explore also, Sunshine Cathedral, Ft. Lauderdale, work by Paul McReynolds. 2018 marks the 43rd the piano keyboard and to make up their FL, 4/15/18. Dances and Interludes, Robert consecutive year that his concert activity has own songs. Someday he may be a part of the Phillips, guitar, Beacon Fellowship, Lakeland, FL, been published in the “American Composer Composers Bureau. 11/12/18. Update” of PAN PIPES. PERFORMANCES: (All works are published CANARY L. BURTON by Brixton Publications) Night Tide, John T. JERRY CASEY • PREMIERES: A Mass for Us, Mueller, trombone, William Shaltis, marimba, PREMIERES: Christmas computer performance (strings, Harris Concert Hall, University of Memphis, TN, cinquains, Jerry Casey, soprano, horns), at opening, Susan 9/30/18. Fables from Aesop, Er-Gene Kahng, Catherine Frecker, piano; Anthony: Fresh Cuts, Left Bank violin, Cory Mixdorf, trombone, Tim Thompson, also, Christmas Medley, Joan Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, 8/4/18; narrator, Faulkner Performing Arts Center, Vasquez, violin, Jerry Casey, also, opening, Michael Burbank University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 9/24/18. piano, Naples, Music Club, at Art Gallery, Wellfleet Public Alien Loop de Loops, Micah Everett, trombone, Naples, FL, 12/13/17. Bird Library, 8/26/18. BURTON electronics, Nutt Auditorium, University of Raptures (poetry of Christina CASEY NEWS: This year I’ve put in a Mississippi, Oxford, 9/6/18. Space Renaissance Rossetti), Rachel Holland, large garden and finished a large piece A( Mass Suite, Elena Cecconi, flute, National Congress soprano, Patti Watters, flute, Ferguson Center for US) that took me two years to write. It and of Space Renaissance Italia, Bologna, Italy, for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, everything else I have recorded is for sale in all 5/18/18. The Enchanted Garden, Keith Sweger, Newport News, VA, 3/24/18. Shout Praises the outlets. I sell my music piece by piece all bassoon, You-Fang Chen, violin, Katrin Meidel, to the Lord, Concert Choir, Malone University, over the world in mp3 format. viola, Peter Opie, cello, College Music Society Dr. Jon C. Peterson, director, Johnson Center Regional Conference, Otterbein University, for Worship and the Arts, Malone University, HOWARD J. BUSS Westerville, OH, 4/7/18. Three Euphonics, Canton, OH, 11/1/18. PREMIERES: (All works are published by Josh McGiven, euphonium, Recital Hall, Florida PERFORMANCES: Pilate’sWife, scene from Act Brixton Publications) Among the Reeds, Southern College, Lakeland. 11/15/17. I, Kimber Carter, soprano, Randi Bivens, mezzo, double reed sextet, All-Star Double Reed Band, NEW PUBLICATIONS: All works are published by Charlene Sutton, piano, Ron Montgomery, International Double Reed Society Conference Brixton Publications, www.brixtonpublications. director, Irons Recital Hall, University of Texas, Palacio Congresos, Granada, Spain, 9/1/18. com: Concerto for Euphonium, euphonium, Arlington, TX, 2/4/17. In a Stable, Women’s Into the Hall of Valor, Frank Lloyd, horn, U.S. piano, 19’. Concerto for Bassoon, bassoon, chorus, Fresno Pacific University, Bethany Alvey, Army Field Band, Col. Jim Keene, conductor, piano, 19’. Another World Stood conductor, Recital Hall, Fresno Pacific University, 8/4/18; also, Fanfare for a Golden Era” for Here, flute choir, 6’30”. Saxy, Fresno, CA, 10/6/17; also, First Presbyterian 15 horns, Ad hoc ensemble, Douglas Droste, tenor sax, piano, 10’45”. Flute Church, Fresno, 11/19/17. Out of the Depths, director, International Horn Symposium Emens Pizzazz, flute, piano, 6’30”. Jonathan Levin, piano, Poindexter Hall, Auditorium, Ball State University, Muncie, IN Concerto for Marimba and Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, 7/30/18. Concerto for Euphonium, Patrick Percussion Ensemble, 15’. MS, 3/3/18. Nyren, euphonium, Susan Hoskins, piano, Vibrant Horizons, flute, piano; NEWS: See Jerry Casey Music for scores. Legacy Hall, Columbus State University, Georgia, also, flute, band, 17’30”. Into the BUSS Tracks from my CD, Yet, I Will Rejoice, continue 3/28/18. Saxy, Barry McGinnis tenor sax, Sarah Hall of Valor, horn, band; hand, to be broadcast on Radio Arts Indonesia on Masterson, piano, North American Saxophone piano, 8’. Fanfare for a Golden Era, 15-part a regular basis. I have a new project entitled Alliance Symposium, Watson Hall, Cincinnati horn choir, 4’40”. Among the Reeds, double Seven Signs (Song Cycle for Seven Singers and Conservatory of Music, 3/10/18; also, AMC reed sextet, 6’30”. The Three Sackbuteers Enter Seven Instrumentalists) which is based on the Recital Hall, Newberry College, South Carolina, Valhalla, trombone trio, 6’30” Seven Signs (or miracles) found in the gospel 3/20/18. The Three Sackbuteers Enter NEWS: You can learn more about the music of John. Each sign is performed by a different Valhalla, trombone trio, members of U.S. Army of Howard J. Buss on Wikipedia at http:// singer and a different instrument. The plan is Band, ‘Pershing’s Own,” American Trombone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_J._Buss and on for each singer to be in biblical costume (each

4 Winter 2019 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org • SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate th • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE sign is sung by someone from the story of 7/17/18. Toccata Veronese, Sonata, Regina Cohn,70 oboe, Dasha, pianist, the miracle) and the instrumentalists to be in Sara Bong, piano, SAI National Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y., date unrelieved black. At the end the singers and Convention, 2018 Inter-American TBA. Piano Sonata #5, Nina Siniakova, Tuesday instrumentalists join in a choral finale using Music Awards Competition Morning Music Club, Douglaston, 2/19/19. the words of John 20:31, “But these are written Winner, Scottsdale, AZ, 7/27/18. String Quartet #3, Genaro Medina, 1st violin, The so that you will put your faith in Jesus as the PERFORMANCES: Adonai Medina Quartet, Altoona, PA, 3/19. Messiah and the Son of God. If you have faith Malach (Psalm 97), HaZamir COMMISSIONS: Double Concerto for Violin, in Him, you will have true life.” I have completed Choir, Chris Mason, conductor, COHEN Viola, and Orchestra, by Genaro Medina. Sonata the first three songs and am nearing completion Scott Stein, piano, David Geffen #3 for Violin and Piano, by Eric Grossman. Trio of the fourth. The lyrics of five and six have also Hall, New York, NY, 3/18/18. Adonai Malach on Korean and American Themes for Clarinet, been completed. (Psalm 97), HaZamir Choir, Rima Priimak, Cello, and Piano, by Jessica Harrie, clarinet. A conductor, Rotem Saulin, piano, Heichal New Work for the Tulsa Alumnae Chapter of NANCY HILL COBB • HaOmanoyot, Herzliyah, Israel, 6/7/18. Trio for Sigma Alpha Iota to honor the 75th anniversary PREMIERES: And Death Shall Flute, Alto Saxophone, and Piano, Soo-Kyung of their founding as a Chapter, by Sue Amstutz Have No Dominion, TTBB Park (flute), Paul Cohen (saxophone), Tom of the Administrative Board. A New Work for Chorus, Piano. Cuffari (piano), Provincetown Playhouse, New Flute Quartet by Sally Shorrock, PERFORMANCES: Threnody, York, NY, 7/17/18. Toccata Veronese, Sara NEWS: This past year, 2018, has been extremely Chorus, Orchestra, University of Bong, piano, SAI Convention, Scottsdale, AZ, good for me in every way. I had the good fortune Northern Iowa Concert Chorale 7/27/18. Sonata for Soprano Saxophone and to celebrate my 90th birthday in February in and Symphony. Piano, Paul Cohen, saxophone, Ariel González good health, with family and very good friends NEW PUBLICATIONS: All Lorenz COBB Cedré, piano, PanaSax Saxophone Congress, and many of my musician friends who honored Music Publishing: Holy, Holy, University of Panama, 9/4/18. me by performing a lot of my music at a grand Holy, Choir, Organ. party. My health continues to be excellent, Christ the Lord is Risen Today, choir, brass, JAMES COHN••• again, for which I am profoundly grateful, and organ. Holy, Holy, Holy: 5 Hymn Voluntaries for PREMIERES: Concerto for English Horn and I have continued to receive commissions. The Organ. String Orchestra, Pedro Diaz, English horn of one commission which is most satisfying came NEWS: Nancy Hill Cobb continues in her role as The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra NY, National from the Administration of the Tulsa Alumnae Professor of Music at the University of Northern Orchestra of Costa Rica, Carl St. Clair, conductor, Chapter, by way of Sue Amstutz, to create a Iowa. Her latest project is the composition National Theater of Costa Rica, 6/22/18. new work to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of a new musical (book and lyrics by Cavan Klezmer Suite, Caroline Hartig, clarinet, string of the Founding of the Chapter. This had the Hallman) about the fight for women’s suffrage. quartet from the Ghent Philharmonic; also, most meaning for me, since I was initiated The premiere of The Suffragist is scheduled Elegy: In Memory Of Guido Six, Jef Six, and Tad as an Honorary Arts Associate in Spring of for June 5, 6, and 7, 2020, at the Gallagher Goldstein, Claribel Clarinet Choir, ClarinetFest, 1998 in Tulsa. I have created a work for Flute, Bullhorn Performing Arts Center (GBPAC) on Oostende, Belgium, 7/18. Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano. The work will be the UNI campus. Timed to be a part of the PERFORMANCES: Homage for Orchestra, premiered in February of 2019 and if my good centennial celebration of the passage and Nutmeg Symphonic Pops Orchestra, Dino health continues and the weather cooperates, ratification of the 19th Amendment, the musical Ciaburri, St. Louis Church, West I hope to travel from New York to Tulsa with my chronicles the final push for women’s suffrage Haven, CT, 5/13/18; also, St. wife for the premiere. between 1913 and 1919. Iconic leaders Alice Thomas Symphony, Bernard Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucy Burns, Anna Tamosaitis, conductor, Harbor LINDA ROBBINS COLEMAN ••••• Howard Shaw and others battle against both the Island Park, Mamaroneck, NY, PREMIERES: I’m Dreaming ‘bout the Good cultural forces of their era and their own internal 7/4/18; Altoona Symphony Ol’ Days, The Dating Waltz, I Dream Too Much struggles to justify the means for their ultimate Orchestra, Teresa Cheung, about You, for voice and piano. Rhapsody in goal: winning the franchise for women. Three conductor, Mishler theater, Rhythm, and The Life of the Party! for one piano, COHN scenes of the musical will receive a preview Altoona, PA, 10/6/18. Nine four hands. performance at the UNI School of Music’s Miniatures, Jung Hwa Park, PERFORMANCES: For a International Women’s Day Concert on March 8, piano, Tuesday Morning Music Club, Douglaston, Beautiful Land, symphonic 2019 in the GBPAC. NY, 5/22/18. SONATA, Scott Pool, bassoon, poem, opened the Chelsea Sunny Knabl, piano, Great Neck Nina Siniakova Symphony (NYC) season, 9/18; STEVE COHEN NY Conservatory of Music, 5/26/18; also, toured throughout Puerto PREMIERES: Trio for Flute, Alto Saxophone, private concert, New York City, 5/27/18. Fiesta Rico, SDASO (TN) in March; and Piano, Michael Brinzer, Guy Dellacave, Latina, Quintet of the Americas: Karla Moe, featured on a concert tour in Emily Frederick, Manhattan School of Music, flute, Matt Sullivan, oboe, Ben Baron, clarinet, Italy, Westmont (CA) Symphony COLEMAN New York, NY, 3/19/18. Ahavat Olam, Tamara Sasha Enegrin, bassoon, Barbara Oldham, horn, Orchestra, May; as well as the Hope Wolfson, HUC Choir, Joyce Rosenzweig, Garden Party, Brooklyn, NY, 6/3/18. Morning Bloomsburg (PA) SO and Randolph College (VA) conductor, Hebrew Union College, New York, Songs: I Need Someone, KATrina’s Mad Song, Orchestras, 11/2018. In Good King Charles’s NY, 4/11/18/; also, Soo-Kyung Park, flute, Alleluia, The 23rd Psalm, Yolanda Johnson, Golden Days, symphonic overture, Grand Paul Cohen, saxophone,, Tom Cuffari, piano, soprano, Aglaia Messina, piano, Tuesday Junction (CO) Symphony Orchestra, 9/18; Provincetown Playhouse, New York, NY, Morning Music Club, Douglaston, 10/23/18. Midland CSO (MI), 3/18. Journeys, symphonic Winter 2019 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 5 • SAI Alumna/Patroness ANNUAL AMERICAN • • Friend of the Arts th • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate poem,70 South Bay (CA) Philharmonic Orchestra, TTBB chorus, Op. 15. C. F. Peters: Piano Sonata JONATHAN ELKUS 3/18. Vignettes for a Summer Evening, for in B Minor, Op. 21. PERFORMANCE: Salute to Lehigh University flute, violin, and piano by the Fortnightly Trio, NEWS: I am in my 33rd year of teaching at from Arthur Bliss, fanfare adaptation, Lehigh composer, piano, Des Moines, 2/19, also, 4/19. Eastern Kentucky University where I am University Wind Ensemble, David Diggs, director. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Prairie Portraits, for Professor of Music and an EKU Foundation fiddle and small orchestra. Suite Antique, Valse Professor. I continue to teach private piano, PAUL ELWOOD Calliope, and Memoré, for string orchestra. The group piano, Keyboard Literature, and Music PREMIERES: Lulu of the Plains, Alice Simmons, Life of the Party! one piano, four hands; as well History. I currently serve as a member of the mezzo-soprano with chamber ensemble, film as euphonium quartet. Hey, America! for SATB Faculty Senate, and I chair the Foundation collage, The Roxy, Wichita, KS, 10/10/18. choir and piano. All works published by CCS. Professor Selection Committee. Due to Raindrips to Rethfernhim, Alice Simmons, NEWS: Linda Robbins Coleman spearheaded budget cuts resulting in the loss of our staff mezzo-soprano, Claire Toomey, a two-year fundraising campaign at Drake accompanists (who also taught Freshman piano, Ramsbury, UK, 3/17/18. University to honor her late husband who taught class piano), I have spent this Fall introducing Alternate Constellations, Mireia there from 1966-2002. Coleman and the Drake a new class piano approach via Piano Marvel, Frutos, piano, 8th Annual Malaysian Composers Festival, Theatre Alumni successfully accomplished the a web-based application that students use Kuala Lumpur, 11/26/17. Teatro re-dedication of the black box theatre in the through their computers and a MIDI keyboard. de Reflejos, Eurydice Alvarez, Harmon Fine Arts Center to the William S.E. It deals with Technique, Literature (solos and oboe, Willem van Skalkwych, ELWOOD Coleman Studio Theatre. In addition, enough duets), transposition, harmonization, sight- piano, University of Northern funds were raised to establish the ongoing reading scales, arpeggios, and chords. This new Colorado, Greeley, 4/3/17. William S.E. Coleman Guest Artist Series. For program, created by Aaron Garner, can also PERFORMANCES: Deconstructed Appalachian this project, Linda compiled a two-volume be used for private teachers. EKU is the first tunes, Elwood, banjo, Sue McKenzie, sax, history and source book of guest artists at University to adopt this program. Susan Mayo, cello, World Saxophone Congress, Drake. Coleman was also featured in “Buffalo Zagreb, Croatia, 7/12/18. Alice Simmons, Bill, Legend of the Old West,” in the Iowa History MICHAEL G. CUNNINGHAM soprano, Anna Le Hair, piano, Nowhere Too from Journal. The article used research and materials NEW RECORDINGS: Mezzanine Seat, orchestral Raindrips to Rethfernhim, Finnegans Wake, that she and her husband had collected and CD, including,Silhouettes Op. 225, Clarinet James Joyce, Tring, UK, Parish Church, 7/8/18. lectured on throughout the United States and Concerto Op. 186, Symphonette Original tunes, Elwood, Sue McKenzie, sax, Europe for more than three decades. Coleman Op. 200, Bach Diadem, Op. Susan Mayo, piano, Le Corbusier, Marseille, continues to work as a consultant, writer, and 283, Navona/Parma, available France, 4/5/18. Dark Wood, CJ Armbruster, solo editor; and to compose and publish music with Amazon.com. snare drum, Ulrich Recital Hall, University of her company, Coleman Creative Services – NEWS: The concept opera The Maryland, 4/14/18. Left Handed Compliment, CCS. For more information, please visit www. Fall of Occitania (in the year Briana Meyers, Aimée Niemann, box, violin case, lindarobbinscoleman.com 1208), Op. 218 is now scored iPhone, tone generators, bird calls, University of for its limited instrumentation. CUNNINGHAM Northern Colorado, 4/2/18. The opera The Magic Voice, Op. RICHARD A. CROSBY ••• NEW PUBLICATIONS: October 2018, four 231, is now fully orchestrated. PREMIERES: Piano Sonata in B articles for Newmusicbox. Minor, Op. 21, SAI Convention’s NEW RECORDINGS: Emissions Transparents, WALLACE EARL DE PUE, SR. •• IAMA concert in Scottsdale, featuring title track, Pablo Gomez, solo PREMIERES: The Bachanmy Variations AZ, 7/27/18; also, KMTA guitar, Callithumpian Consort, New England (arrangement of J. S. Bach, Goldberg Variations), Conservatory, Stephen Drury, conductor; Convention, Louisville, KY, John David Hatt, organ, The 9/14/19. Platonic Winds, Aly Olson, soprano, University Trinity Cathedral, Reno, NV. of Iowa Percussion Ensemble, Daniel Moore, PERFORMANCES: Variations Offertory (organ music). A New conductor; Ashe County Lament, Rose Chancler, Op. 13, Crosby, pianist, guest CROSBY Creation, Grace Cathedral, San piano, Carrie Fridley, voice and electronics; recital, East Arizona College, Francisco, CA. London Improvisations for Arthur S. Wolff, Paul Thatcher, AZ, 2/23/18. Sonata for Trombone PERFORMANCES: During Elwood, banjo, Eddie Prévost, percussion; Banjo and Piano, Op. 1, Nate Siler, trombone, Crosby, September 2018: The Disciple Player, Christian Wolff, commissioned by Paul, piano, Middle Tennessee State University, Variations, John David Hatt, DE PUE Innova Recordings 005, 1/19. Arkansas State University, Missouri State organ, Grace Cathedral, San NEWS: Finished: Percussion Ensemble University, 10/20–21/18. Ricercare Op 18, Francisco, CA. consortium composition titled Ghost Theatre in also Canzona Op. 20, EKU Trombone Ensemble, SSRN notification: “AUDIO FILE: DOO-DAH! four movements. Ongoing erstwhile blog posts: Faculty Recital, Eastern Kentucky U, 4/4/18; ‘CAMPTOWN RACES’”, was recently listed on http://soundchoice.typepad.com also, EKU Trombone Studio, International SSRN’s Top Ten download list for: Compositions Trombone Association Convention, University of for Symphony Orchestra eJournal. The SSRN is SHEILA MEYEROWITZ FIRESTONE • Iowa, 7/11/18. a worldwide organization. My arrangement was PREMIERE: Lakeside Walk with Joe, NEW PUBLICATIONS: J. W. Pepper: Ricercare, downloaded 16 times. Remembering Joseph Dillon Ford Concert, Op. 18 for Trombone Ensemble; Sonata for Cello NEW PUBLICATIONS: The Toy Can(n)on, winner Octara Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Weiss, and Piano, Op. 19; On the Beach at Night for of the Chesapeake Chorale Call for Scores. manager, Seattle, WA, 9/23/18; also, Johan 6 Winter 2019 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org • SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate th • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE

Louwers Neimen, director, Hacksaw, Richard Nunemaker, bass clarinet, NEW RECORDINGS: Art70 for Two, Navona Maplewood Church, Lynnwood, SUNY Fredonia Wind Ensemble, Paula Holcomb, NV6185, featuring Mario Ciaccio, saxophones, WA, 9/23/18. conductor, Fredonia, NY, 10/6/18. Litany, Sauro Berti, , Naomi Fujiya, piano, and PERFORMANCES: Axiom String Quartet, John Cornelius, piano, the Eccher School of Music Vocal Ensemble Grandchildren’s Suite, piano, Prairie View A&M University Choir, Arlecia Taylor, (Trento, Italy), playing Benny, Zoot and Teddy, National League of American director, South Main Baptist Church, Houston, Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, Oh, More Penwomen National Conference TX, 11/17/18. or Less, Sonata for Bass Clarinet and Piano, and 49th Biennial, Des Moines, IA, FIRESTONE PERFORMANCES: Amelia, Russian National Shalom. 4/20/18. Songs from Miriam and the Women Orchestra, Milan Vaupotíc, conductor, Moscow NEWS: In 2018 I had a very special concert of the Desert: Peace Child, The Child’s Dream, International House of Music, Moscow, 2/7/18; performed in Carnegie Hall by a number of Lambda A Province Day, Florida International also, The Mahidol Wind Orchestra, Thanapol Italy’s leading young musicians, in support of University Performing Arts Center, 2/17/18. Setabrahmana, conductor, Mahidol University, their recent recording Art for Two, featuring NEW PUBLICATIONS: Tallit of Sisterhood, Bangkok, Thailand, 8/6/18. Sonata for Bass five works of mine. After a spectacular trip to Refuah Shalayma, The Torah of Jewish Women: Clarinet, Fakebook, Shalom, Mario Ciaccio, Iceland, I was fortunate enough to travel to Adding Our Voices, Reclaiming Judiasm Institute saxophones, Sauro Berti, clarinets, Naomi Thailand, where I was a featured composer for for Jewish Spiritual Education. Adon Olam, new Fujiya, piano, Trentino Conservatory Choir, the Thailand International Composition Festival. setting, traditional lyric, Kol Isha Songbook, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 2/9/18. Suite I followed that with a wonderful residency at Women Cantor’s Network. Nothings, Ensemble de Clarinetes RCSMM, The MacDowell Colony, and ended the year NEWS: Miriam and the Women of the Desert, Pedro Rubio, director, Royal Academy of Fine with a gala performance of my Requiem: For my musical, premiere in Palm Beach County and Arts, Madrid, Spain, 2/20/18. Imágenes de the Living, featuring a 100-voice choir directed Broward County, FL, Spring 2019. Cuba, Apollo String Quartet, Chamber Arts by Betsy Cook Webber, a 60-piece orchestra Series, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, conducted by Vladimir Lande, and four vocal ROBERT FLEISHER 3/30/28. Reformation Celebration, the Kansas soloists including Lauren Snouffer of the Met PERFORMANCES: Dans le State University Faculty Brass Quintet, SCI and acclaimed bass-baritone Timothy Jones, as piano (fixed media), Audiograft Region VI Conference, Manhattan, KS, 4/5/18. part of the Concert for Humanity sponsored by 2017, Oxford Brookes University, Concerto for Tom, Randall Faust, solo horn, WIU the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance.. UK; 3/7-19/17 and New York Studio Orchestra, John Cooper, Director, City Electroacoustic Music Western Illinois University, Macomb, 4/18/18. JULIANA HALL Festival (NYCEMF), 7/16/17. May 3, 2018, Sonata for Alto Saxophone, Shall PREMIERES: How Do I Love Thee?, Martha Loretto Alfresco (fixed media), We Gather, Mario Ciaccio, alto saxophone, Ana Guth, soprano, Erika Switzer, piano, VU Symposium, Park City, UT, FLEISHER Paula Gil Garcia, piano, ISA Universidad de las Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project, 7/18/17. Altro Alfresco (fixed Artes, Havana, Cuba, 5/3/18. 200 Michigan Princeton, NJ, 9/18. Cameos, Molly Fillmore, media), Forum Wallis Swiss Contemporary Avenue, the ITG Festival Trumpet Ensemble, soprano, Elvia Puccinelli, piano, Music Festival, Leuk, Switzerland, 6/2/17, also, Marie Speziale, conductor, International CollabFest 2018, University of NYCEMF, 7/17/18. Gig Harbor (piano solo), Trumpet Guild conference, San Antonio, TX, North Texas School of Music, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 6/7/18. Maniondala, 5/30/18. The Kaleidoscopic Pocket Hockets Denton, TX, 10/18. And It Came Ethan Martin, malletKAT, Electronic Music Boogaloo, Clarinet Choir, Sarah Watts, Director, To Pass, Charles Humphries, Midwest, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, countertenor, Juliana Hall, piano, 10/11/18. Gig Harbor and Six Little Piano UK, 5/7/18. Fakebook: Volume One, Bennett Ware Music Series, Gloucester, Pieces, Martin Jones, piano, Radford University, Lerner, piano, Sonata for Horn and Piano, Daren VA, 12/18. Of That So Sweet HALL Radford, VA, 11/9/18. Robbins, horn, Korak Lertpihulchai, piano, Imprisonment, Stephanie Blythe, NEW RECORDINGS: Beginning & Ending on Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, 8/7/18. mezzo soprano, Alan Smith, piano, Sparks & One Minute, Iwona Glinka, flute, Sarton Records Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Chamber Wiry Cries’ NYC songSLAM FESTIVAL, DiMenna (024-2), 2017. Maniondala (Gregory Beyer, Orchestra: Rocco e Rollo, Rocco Parisi, bass Center for Classical Music, New York, NY, 1/19. malletKAT) on Long Roll: A Tribute to Composer- clarinet, Thai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shinik Through the Guarded Gate, Clara Osowski, Percussionist Michael Manion (1952-2012), Hahm, conductor, Prince Mahidol Concert mezzo soprano, Juliana Hall, piano, Seattle Art Albany (Troy1691), 2017. Hall, Bangkok, 8/11/18. Requiem: For the Song Society, Seattle, WA, 3/19. Sentiment, Living, Lauren Snouffer, soprano, Andrea Jaber, Laura Strickling, soprano (unaccompanied), mezzo-soprano, Timothy Jones, bass-baritone, Calliope’s Call, Cambridge, MA, 4/19. ARTHUR GOTTSCHALK orchestra conducted by Vladimir Lande, choir PERFORMANCES: When the South Wind PREMIERES: March 24, 2018, Quintet for Bass directed by Betsy Cook Webber, South Main Sings, Corinne Cowling, soprano, and Death’s Clarinet and String Quartet, Baptist Church, Houston, TX, 11/17/18. Echo, Julien Van Mellaerts, baritone; both with Rocco Parisi, bass clarinet, NEW PUBLICATIONS: Sonata for Horn and Dylan Perez, piano, re-Sung Art Song Series, Axiom String Quartet, the Italian Piano, the International Horn Society Music London, England, 5/18. A Northeast Storm and Cultural Center, Houston, TX, Sales. New works include Hacksaw (solo bass songs from Christina’s World, Death’s Echo, 3/24/18. Danzón, Rocco clarinet and wind ensemble), Litany (SATB choir, Night Dances, Propriety, and When the South Parisi, bass clarinet and dance, string quartet, and jazz piano), Quintet for Bass Wind Sings, Fellows of the 2018 Fall Island Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi, Clarinet and Strings, and Tebe Boga Kvahlim, for Vocal Arts Seminar, SUNY, Potsdam, NY, 5/18. Alessandria, Italy, 5/9/18. GOTTSCHALK SATB choir and orchestra. When the South Wind Sings, Stephanie Aston,

Winter 2019 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 7 • SAI Alumna/Patroness ANNUAL AMERICAN • • Friend of the Arts th • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate soprano,70 Katalin Lukacs, piano, Marigny Opera Interrogations for SATB. Mosiac Casado, conductor;, Verizon Hall, Kimmel House, New Orleans, LA, 6/18. Music like a in Silver for Solo Flute(s) and Center for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. 1/5-6/18. Curve of Gold, Orvieto Musica Festival, Teatro Wind-Metal Orchestra, Stetson Commission by the Philadelphia Orchestra for Mancinelli, Orvieto, Italy, 7/18. O Mistress Mine, University Symphonic Band, Mr. Khaner, Principal Flutist. String Quartet No. Darryl Taylor, countertenor, Juliana Hall, piano, Douglas L. Phillips, conductor, 1, The Harrington String Quartet, Amarillo, TX, University of California, Irvine, CA, 10/18. Tammara K. Phillips, flute, Lee Botanical Gardens, Amarillo, commission West NEW RECORDINGS: Spectra (Volume 2), A Chapel, Elizabeth Hall, Stetson HODKINSON Texas A&M University, 4/21/17. Violin Concerto, Concert of Music by Members of Connecticut University, Deland, FL, 4/21/18. Anne Akiko Meyers, violin, The Eastern Music Composers, Inc. Bells and Grass by Juliana Hall; PERFORMANCES: Stolen Goods, Barry Snyder, Festival Orchestra, ,Gerard Schwarz, Music Julia Broxholm, soprano, Margaret Marco, oboe, piano, NYU/ Steinhardt, Frederick Loewe Director; July 22, 2017, Dana Auditorium, Navona Records, Catalog # NV6188, 10/18. Theatre, NYC, NY, 9/30/17; also, MUSIK i Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, 7/22/17. NEWS: Served as 2018 Guest Composer, Fall Alvsborg, Kyrka, 11/6/17; China tour, 12/12- Commission by the All-Star Orchestra. Fanfare Island Vocal Arts Seminar, SUNY, Potsdam, NY, 16/18; Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen, MI, for a Joyous Occasion, Northwest Symphony 5/18. Served as 2018 Resident Composer, Faculty Recital, 6/20/18. Three Little Pieces, Orchestra, Anthony Spain, conductor. Highline CollabWeek 2018, University of North Texas Tammara Phillips, flute, Kristie Born, piano, School of Music, Denton, TX, 10/18. Received Elizabeth Hall, Stetson University, 9/29/17. Performing Arts Center, Burien, WA, 4/29/17. commission for mezzo soprano song cycle, Panels, Book II, D. Ferri, soprano saxophone, K. PERFORMANCES: Four Haiku, Chamber Through the Guarded Gate, from the Seattle Born, piano, Elizabeth Hall, Stetson University, Version, Mississippi Chamber Music Society, Art Song Society, Seattle, WA. Received 11/14/17. Cascades: A Sonic Etude for 15 Fowler Hall, Jackson, MS, commission for bass baritone song setting, The Clarinets, Stetson Clarinet Choir, L. Musco, 10/13/18; Tangletown Trio, New Colossus, from Simon Chalifoux, Montreal, conductor, Elizabeth Hall, Stetson University, Governor’s Mansion, Olympia, Canada. Composed tenor song cycle, Piano 11/19/17. Gone to Gone, Stetson University WA, 5/15/17. Elegy for String Lessons, for Andrew Fuchs. Composed baritone Concert Choir, Timothy Peter, conductor, Spring Orchestra, Minot, ND, Symphony song cycle, Nocturne of Remembered Spring, for Tour Jacksonville Beach, Leesburg, Naples, Fort Orchestra, Efrain Amaya, Randall Scarlata. Myers, Palm Beach, Miami, FL, 4/13-18/18; conductor, 11/11/17. String also on tour Interrogations. Quartet No. 1, Harrington JONES A. ERIC HEUKESHOVEN NEW PUBLICATIONS: Versicles, for voice, Quartet, Chism Hall, Walla Walla, PREMIERES: Birdie’s piano, percussion, Merion (Presser) 6/17 WA, 3/7/18; Second City Chamber Series, Favorite, Duet for Piccolo Mosaic in Silver, for flutes & winds & metal Tacoma, WA, 3/9/18. Piano Sonata, Angelo and Euphonium (Concert orchestra, Merion (Presser) 9/17. Rondello, pianist, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, Band), commissioned by the 2/4/17; repeated on tour in Perugia, Italy; Pecs, ROBERT JAGER Minnesota Ambassadors of Hungary; and Bergen, Norway. In Retrospect, for PREMIERES: Symphony No. Three (The Music for their 2018 European Orchestra, SOGO (Student Orchestra of Greater Grandeur of God), Troy University Symphonic Tour (London, Switzerland, Olympia), John Welsh, conductor, Minnaert Austria, Germany). Fanfare HEUKESHOVEN Winds, Dr. Mark Walker, conductor, Concert Center for Performing Arts, Olympia, WA, for Hope (Concert Band), Auditorium, Troy University, Troy, AL 5/2/18; 7/1/18. commissioned in honor of the inauguration also, University of Texas at El Paso Symphonic NEW PUBLICATIONS: All Campanile Music of Father James P. Burns, IVD, Ph.D., 14th Winds, Dr. Bradley Genevro, conductor, Press, Carl Fischer: Flute Concerto; Fanfare for a President of Saint Mary’s University of Performing Arts Center, UTEP, El Joyous Occasion; String Quartet No. 1. Minnesota, Winona, 10/5/18. Paso, 10/2/18. NEWS: Currently beginning work on an PERFORMANCES: Variations on NEW RECORDINGS: Symphony No. 3 (Palo SATB choral setting of the Coventry Litany a Theme of Robert Schumann, Duro Canyon), London Symphony Orchestra, of Reconciliation, a powerful text written by Florida Gulf Coast University Lance Friedel, conductor, BIS Records, BIS- Canon Joseph Poole in 1958. The Saint Mary’s Wind Orchestra, Dr. Timothy 2118, SACD. Included American Symphonies, along with Walter Piston, Symphony No. 6 and University of Minnesota Chamber Singers will Yountz, conductor, Performing JAGER premiere the work on their 2019 international Arts Center, Florida Gulf Coast Stephen Albert, Symphony No. 2. tour of Germany and Belgium. The text may be University, Fort Myers, FL, 9/20/18. NEWS: No special news to report this year, other found here: http://www.coventrycathedral. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Edward B. Marks than continued work on new compositions. I org.uk/ccn/the-coventry-litany-of- Publishing, New York, NY: Festival of Winds am pleased to report that musicologist/violinist reconciliation/ and Percussion, for symphonic winds. The War Susan Pickett, whose most recent book is a Prayer for narrator & orchestra, text by Edgar biography of 20th century American composer SYDNEY HODKINSON Allen Poe. Marion Bauer, has begun work on my biography PREMERES: Gone to Gone for SATB, Stetson as well. She will be assisted by Dr. Doug University Concert Choir, Timothy Peter, SAMUEL JONES Scarborough, who has succeeded her, upon her PREMIERES: conductor, Lee Chapel, Stetson University, Flute Concerto, Jeffrey Khaner, retirement, as Chair of the Music Department at flute, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Pablo Heras- DeLand, FL, 4/20/18; on same concert Whitman College. 8 Winter 2019 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org • SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate th • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE

SUSAN COHN LACKMAN • NEW RECORDINGS: Remember, with my cycle Landson viola, John Landefeld,70 cello, Baya PREMIERE: Adon Olam, original The Joy of Uncreating, to poems by Joan Joffe Kakouberi, piano, Blue Candlelight Music Series, melody, 9/18. Hall, Steven LaBrie, baritone, Adam Nielsen, Dallas TX, 1/6/19. Works by Landson: Moments PERFORMANCES: Ghosts on piano, Roven Records, 5/18. RBG in Song, in Memory, Mozart Noir, Dream on a Cirrus Sky, the Bund, Admiral of the Endless Cedille label, 6/18; Wider Than The Sky (Emily Travels, Neo Camerata: Landson violin, Hogan, Sea, Lackman, piano, China Dickinson setting), Patrice Michaels, soprano, cello, Berestnev, piano, Cave Without A Name, Goes Global Conference: Belt Kuang-Hao Huang, piano. Boerne, TX, 1/19/19; also, Open Classical and Road Initiative, gala dinner, NEWS: I am currently orchestrating Wider Than Artist Series, Dallas TX, 1/18/19. Moments in Shanghai, China, 6/17/18. LACKMAN The Sky for the live performance tour of RBG Memory, Mozart Noir, Vokante Heroa, Landson NEW PUBLICATIONS: Letter in Song. I am finishing up the for a violin, Bella Markham, viola, Sebastian Kozub, from China, IAWM Journal, Winter 2018-19. Naxos double CD, “Living in the Body — Songs of cello, Berestnev, piano, Music in the Chamber NEWS: I continue to teach at Rollins College – a Lori Laitman.” Series, Frisco, TX, 2/15/19. real joy! My studies of Chuan Ju, a distinctive NEW PUBLICATIONS: Available through Chinese opera from Sichuan Province, are MARVIN LAMB MarkLandson.com: Travels, 4 mvts, 23”, score, winding up; I managed to be costumed as a PREMIERES: Woodcuts for solo saxophone and parts; other versions: String Quartet (2vn, va general, and I’ll verify that the costumes and 4 pre-recorded saxophones (multi movement vc); Piano Trio (vn, vc, pno); Violin and Piano; headdresses weigh a ton! I continue to write work), Jonathan Nichol, saxophone, Kyle String Quartet and Full Orchestra (rental). programs notes, primarily for the Bach Festival Vanderburg, audio technician, Dream on a Cirrus Sky, 3:30”, score and of Florida, and, against my better judgement, International Premiere at the part; also: Cello and Piano, Violin and Piano. I’m pianist and leader for a klezmer quartet that 18th World Saxophone Congress Troubled Souls Sonata, 14”, score and part; performs in synagogues and for events in the in Zagreb, Croatia, 7/18; versions: Violin and Piano, Cello and Piano. area. And, of course, there’s the Composers also, Great Plains Saxophone Vokante Heroa, 3 mvts, 27” score and parts; Bureau! Hearing from all the composers is a Workshop in Norman OK, as: Piano Quartet (vn,vla,vc, pno), Piano Quintet true delight! 6/18; New Century Ensemble, (2vns,vla,vc, pno). Celebration, 3”, score and University of Oklahoma, 11/18. LAMB parts; as, String Quartet (2vn, va, vc), Piano Trio LORI LAITMAN •••• PERFORMANCES: Herd! (vn, vc, pno), Violin and Piano (vn, pno). Valse PREMIERES: When You Are Old and Marriage Jonathan Nichol, solo saxophone, 2018 North Triste. 3”, score and parts; as, String Quartet of Many Years, Maureen McKay, soprano, Lori American Saxophone Biennial Conference, (2vn, va, vc), Violin and Piano (vn, pno). I Heard Laitman, piano, PianoCraft, Gaithersburg, MD, Cincinnati, OH, 3/18. For Franco Delicatissimo, A Funny Thing About You, 4”. score and parts; 10/10/18. Vedem Songs, Kerry Jennings, tenor, NiCE Chamber Group; Pavanne, Hal Grossman, as: Voice and Piano, Voice and String Quartet, Tarn Travers, violin, Amanda violin, Stephanie Shames, piano, University of A minor and D minor; Soprano, Clarinet, and Hopson, piano, Faculty Select Oklahoma Faculty Composer Recital on 3/18. Piano. The Final Time, 6”, score and parts: as Series, DePauw School of Music, Lamentations for String Quartet, Pavanne, Voice, Piano, and String Quartet, or Voice, Viola, Greencastle, Indiana, 11/7/18. Grappelli Dreams, The Amabile Quartet, Clarinet, and Piano; High and Low. Original The Ocean of Eternity, Yunghee Jonathan Nichol, Lamb as Guest Composer for English Versions of Schubert Songs available: Rhie, soprano, Michael Couper, “Oklahoma Composers” Concert, Scissortails Shepherd on the Rock, The Erl King, Death and saxophone, ChoEun Lee, piano, Productions, Inc. Norman OK, 10/18. the Maiden, Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel, Scorca Hall, New York, New York, NEW RECORDINGS: Lamentations for String The Trout, To The Nightingale, 2/9/19. The Three Feathers LAITMAN Quartet: Quadrants, Volume 2, Pedroia String Rosebud on the Highland Opera - Abridged with orchestra, Quartet. Navona records, nv 6184, Boston MA, (Heidenröslein). Hartt School of Music, 1/31–2/3/19. 9/18. NEW RECORDINGS: Neo PERFORMANCES: The Joy of Uncreating, NEWS: Received a commission for a new work Camerata, Travels: Music of Steven LaBrie, baritone, Adam Nielsen, piano, for multiple clarinets & percussion from Duo Mark Landson, re-mastered Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, 5/22/18. Long Avanzando; premiere scheduled for 1/19. reissue of 2005 recording. Pond Revisited, Randall Scarlata, baritone, Available through marklandson. LANDSON Joachim Müller-Crepon, cello, Schloss Weildegg, MARK LANDSON com and neocamerata.com Würmlach, Austria, 7/13/18; also, Basilica in PREMIERES: Moments in Memory, Neo NEWS: I am excited to release a re-mastered Maria Luggau, Austria, 7/15/18. The Music Camerata: Mark Landson, violin, John recording of my 2005 recording originally on the of Lori Laitman, PianoCraft, Gaithersburg, Landefeld, cello, Misha Berestnev, piano, Well-Tempered label. Performed by my group MD, 10/10/18. The Earth and I, Washington Mesquite Arts Center, Mesquite TX, 3/16/18. Neo Camerata, the recording includes the string Master Chorale, National Presbyterian Church, Mozart Noir, Neo Camerata: Byron Hogan, cello, quartet Travels, piano quintet Vokante Heroa, Washington, DC, 10/28/18. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth and piece for cello and piano, Dream on a NEW PUBLICATIONS: The Secret Exit, song TX, 1/17/19. Cirrus Sky. The recording is paired with award cycle to Nelly Sachs poems, soprano and PERFORMANCES: Works by Landson: Travels, winning photographic art from Nikola Olic. The clarinet. The Ocean of Eternity, song cycle to Troubled Souls, Moments in Memory, Mark will be supported by performances by Anne Ranasinghe poems, for soprano, soprano Landson violin, John Landefeld, cello, Misha Neo Camerata in numerous cities. In 2019, I will saxophone, piano. I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Berestnev, piano, Sunny Yun, piano, Mesquite be premiering a number of art songs, as well as new edition, now published by Enchanted Arts Center Black Box Series, Mesquite TX, expanding my Schubert in English project. These Knickers Music. 3/16/18. Vokante Heroa, Gary Levinson, violin, are the first and only performable versions Winter 2019 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 9 • SAI Alumna/Patroness ANNUAL AMERICAN • • Friend of the Arts th • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate of 70Schubert songs available that can truly SAMUEL MAGRILL ••• Music Center, VT, 6/9-10/18. communicate the genius of Schubert’s music for PREMIERE: Five Bagatelles by Mira Magrill, PUBLICATIONS: What Wondrous the English speaking world. flute, Gregory Lee, violin, Jonathan Ruck, cello, Love Is This? (piano solo arr.), Samuel Magrill, piano, brightmusic concert: “Old Phillip’s Tune (student strings), DAN LOCKLAIR •• and New” Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Oklahoma Southwest Scenes for Young PREMIERES: Burlington Muses (Two Imaginary City, 4/17/18. Pianists, A Little Magic: Three Dances for String Orchestra), Walter M. Williams PERFORMANCES: Tango Marimbito, for 5 Songs for Boys (SSA), Reflection High School Orchestra, Veronica Allen, director, marimbas, UCO Percussion Consort, UCO and Celebration, (piano solo); Commission by Williams High School Orchestra, Jazz Lab, UCO Percussion Consort Concert Grandfather Great Spirit: For MAULDIN Burlington, NC, 5/22/18. Noel’s Psalm, A Behind Bars, University of Central Oklahoma, Men’s Chorus and Pipe Organ Sonata for Organ, Robert Parkins, organ, Duke Edmond, OK, 12/13/17. Tango Cellito, UCO published by M. Mauldin and MusicaNeo.com. Organ Series, Duke Chapel, Duke University, Chamber Orchestra, Jose Batty, guest conductor, Shaman’s Power-Song (soprano, flute, piano), Durham, NC, 3/25/18. The Lord Is My Light Radke Fine Arts Theatre, University of Central Music for the Summer Shade (clarinet, 2 vln, (Anthem for SATB Chorus and organ), First Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, vla, cello, bass), published by M. Mauldin. Baptist Choir, Dan Locklair, guest conductor, 2/26/18. Odyssey Etude, also, NEWS: Mauldin presented a Faculty Recital on First Baptist Church on Fifth, Winston-Salem, Stone Poems, Mira Magrill, October 7, 2018 at the New Mexico School of NC, 3/4/18. flute, Samuel Magrill, piano, Music in Albuquerque NM, featuring piano solos PERFORMANCES: Gloria, double choir, brass Pre-College Division of the Stony he wrote for his intermediate and advanced octet, percussion, The Garleton Singers, Stephen Brook University Community students, and demonstrating some of the Doughty, conductor), St. Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Music Program Recital Hall, composing devices used. Scotland, 3/17/18; also, St. Mary’s Haddington, Staller Center for the Performing East Lothian, Scotland, 3/18/18. Symphony MAGRILL Arts, Stony Brook University, KIRKE MECHEM ••• No. 2 “America,” I. Independence Day, Brevard NY. Ba-rock Cello Quartet, PREMIERES: Pride & Prejudice, opera in 2 Concert Orchestra, Ken Lam, conductor, UCO Chamber Orchestra, Yali Xie, conductor, acts (G. Schirmer). First concert performance Brevard Music Center, Brevard, NC, 7/4/18; From Asia to America, Radke Fine Arts Theatre, of the complete work with orchestra, by III. Thanksgiving Day, Ridgewood NJ Symphony University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Redwood Symphony, Eric Kujawski, conductor; Orchestra, Stephen Culbertson, 10/9/18. Debra Lambert, director, Redwood City, CA conductor, 11/16/18. Rubrics, NEW PUBLICATIONS: Five Bagatelles for flute, 4/6-7/18. Ye Shall Have a Song: Requiem A Liturgical Suite for Organ in violin, cello and piano; Lynn Morse Publishing. for a Musician (G. Schirmer) SATB, by the five movements, Philip Scriven, NEWS: Samuel Magrill is a Professor of Music, commissioning group, the St. Andrew Episcopal organ, American Music Festival, Graduate Coordinator for Music and Composer- Church of Omaha, Dr. Michael Bauer, conductor, St. John’s Smith Square, London, in-Residence at the University of Central 5/18. England, 5/24/18. King of Oklahoma (UCO) School of Music in Edmond, PERFORMANCES: Songs of the Slave (G. Glory, King of Peace, Anthem LOCKLAIR Oklahoma. Almost all of Samuel Magrill’s works Schirmer), Boston U. Chorus and Orchestra, for SATB Chorus, a cappella, Choir of St. Philip’s are available through Lynn Morse Publishing, Michelle Johnson, soprano, Brian Major, bass- Cathedral, Dale Adelmann, conductor, The 1725 Westwood Lane, Edmond, Oklahoma baritone, Miguel Felipe, conductor, Boston Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, GA, 11/25/18. 73013. He is an SAI National Arts Associate. He Symphony Hall, MA, 4/9/18; Larimer Chorale, Phoenix Processional (solo organ version from received his 29th ASCAP Plus Award in January, Michael Krueger, conductor, Fort Collins, Phoenix Fanfare and Processional), Wilma 2018. My Double Concerto (2001) for two CO, 4/7/18; Rochester Oratorio Society, Eric Jensen, organ, Piccolo Spoleto, Summerall cellos and string orchestra was played on KUCO Townell, conductor, Rochester NY, 2/16/18; Chapel at The Citadel, Charleston, SC, 6/3/18. on 4/27/18 to help celebrate my birthday. California State U., Fullerton, NEW PUBLICATIONS: Published by Subito: Five Bagatelles was broadcast on KUCO on Robert Istad, conductor, Burlington Muses, ca. 6’ 00”, Two Imaginary “Performance Oklahoma” on 5/9/18 and Fullerton CA, 5/14/17; Santa Dances for String Orchestra, commissioned by 5/12/18. Monica Consortium, Dr. the Williams High School Orchestra, Burlington, James E. Smith, conductor, NC. The Lord Is My Light, ca. 5’ 30”, Anthem MICHAEL MAULDIN •• Santa Monica CA, 5/6/18. for SATB Chorus, Organ, commissioned by First PERFORMANCES: Birds in Winter: Six Preludes Tartuffe (G. Schirmer) opera in Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, NC. for Harp, Paivi Severeide, Sibelius Academy in 3 acts, NUOVA Opera & Music NEWS: Current 2018 commissions include ones MECHEM Helsinki, Finland, 1/11/18. Simple Gifts, Youth Theatre Festival, Kathleen from the American Harp Society for a flute and and Elementary All State Chorus, Las Cruces Lohrenz Gable, conductor, Rob Herriot, director, harp sonata for their 2019 national convention NM Convention Center, 1/27/18. Arrangement Edmonton, Canada, 5/7-10/18. Winging Wildly and the Mid-Atlantic 2019 American Guild of of Handel’s O! Had I Jubal’s Lyre, The North (G. Schirmer) cycle for mixed chorus, by Choral Organists Regional Convention for a new solo Carolina Music Educators Association Middle- Chameleon, Dr. Vince Peterson, conductor, organ work for their 2019 Regional Convention School All State Chorus, Coliseum Complex Brooklyn NY, 4/20/18; also, , in New Jersey. RUBRICS: Before and Beyond in Greensboro NC, 4/21/18. The Minstrel 5/6/18. Choral Variations on American Folk is the title of an extensive article on the organ Boy, Chorus Austin, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Songs (G. Schirmer), choral cycle in 3 parts, music of Dan Locklair that appeared in the Church, 5/5/18; also, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Schola Cantorum Silicon Valley, Dr. Gregory Wait, British magazine, The Organ, February-April Austin TX, 5/6/18. Petroglyph for Strings, Juno conductor, Palo Alto, Los Altos, CA, 5/19-20/18. 2018 issue. Orchestra, Zon Eastes, director, Brattleboro Trio for Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon (ECS),

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Trois Bois, 4 performances in San Francisco, minutes before looping. The sections are wind/ 17th production of this70 opera. Sacramento, San Rafael, and Albany CA, 2018. thunder/rain, stream, ocean, seashore, frogs, NEW PUBLICATIONS: (G. NEWS: April 2-9, 2018 - Composer-in-residence crickets, birds, then wind. The eight speakers Schirmer) Romance with for Boston University’s Protest without Words will be mounted outdoors on tall lighting poles, a Double Bass, narrator, Festival. Featured work was the 100th forming a sound corridor through which BART contrabass, piano. Five Nursery performance of Songs of the Slave, 34-minute (Bay Area Rapid Transit) passengers will enter Songs, soprano, toy piano. Tango suite for soloists, chorus and orchestra from the and exit the station. Hambre, guitar solo. opera John Brown. Taped interview for American RODRÍGUEZ SCOTT PENDER NEW RECORDINGS: Above Music TV Series, 4/2-9/18. Masterworks PREMIERES: Two Raymond Carver Songs, All, Women (chamber works of Chorale, San Mateo CA, performs works by K.M. Steven Rainbolt, baritone, Robert Muckenfuss, RXR), Amernet Quartet, Chloé Trevor, violin, Jeff on each program of its 2018-2019 season. piano, also, Requiem for My Father, Trio Lankov, piano, Albany, TROY 172. Simpatico: Phyllis Crossen-Richardson, clarinet, NEWS: See website at www. ALICE A. MOERK • Heidi Brown, horn, Matthew Bachman, piano, RobertXavierRodriguez.com PERFORMANCES: The Wheel of The Lyric Convergence Concert, Annapolis Life, Carole Cornman Fetterman, Chamber Players First Presbyterian Church, STEVEN L. ROSENHAUS soprano, Estelle Schultz, Annapolis MD, 9/30/18. Four Ballads, Jane PERFORMANCES: Thirteen Ways of Looking flute, memorial for Jane Bates Marvine, oboe and English horn, Emil Miland, at a Pigeon (texts by Steven L. Rosenhaus). Fantaski, Sarasota/Manatee cello, James Olin, piano, Kauai Klassics, Hawaii, Nadine Earl Carey, soprano, Norman Carey, Alumni, Bradenton, FL. Two 1/18. piano, Elebash String Quartet; CCNY Concert songs from A Nose for Love, PERFORMANCES: Performed my string trio “Veil Hall, NYC, 3/15/18. Symphony for Band Carole Cornman, Francesca MOERK of Ignorance, Brenda Anna, violin, Cathy Amoury, (Movement II. Largo, Movement III. Scherzo). Veglia, sopranos, Mary Webb, viola, Julia Goudimova, cello, Faculty of Play LaGuardia High School Senior Band; Dr. Richard piano, Sarasota/Manatee Alumni, Bradenton, FL Week Virginia, Wilson Hall, Washington and Lee Titone, conductor, LaGuardia High School, NYC, NEWS: Historical novel Rays of Gold, Book 4 of University, Lexington, VA, 7/20/18. Lyric Set, 4/14/18. JFK: A Profile (based on speeches PasTimes, 2018. Marquis Who’s Who lifetime Phillip Kolker, Professor of Bassoon, Peabody of John F. Kennedy) (Orchestra version). Achievement Award for 2018. Professional Conservatory, Pender, piano, Concord Chamber Orchestra; Jamin Hoffman, profile in magazine, National Profiles Plus, Fall, Annapolis Chamber Players, First Conductor; Dr. James Kinchen, Narrator. 2018. Presbyterian Church, Annapolis Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church, MD, 9/30/18. The documentary MAGGI PAYNE Wauwatosa, WI, 5/12/18; film Pieced Together, Julianne PREMIERES: Heat Shield, BAMPFA, (Berkeley Donofrio, filmmaker, Pender, also, Park Avenue Chamber Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive), Berkeley, CA, score, screened at Avalon Symphony; David Bernard, 8/18/18. Waiting on the Bridge, in collaboration Theatre, Washington, DC, PENDER Conductor; Elliott Forrest, with Laetitia Sonami, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA, 10/16/18. Terezín Songs, Rosa Narrator, 11/10/18; Band 8/26/18. Lamoreaux, soprano, Veterans’ Day Concert, version). Beaverton Community PERFORMANCES: Soundscape, Berkeley OpenPageEnsemble, St. Columba’s Episcopal Band; Martin Sobelman, BART Plaza, 8 channel installation, Berkeley, ROSENHAUS Church, Washington, DC, 11/10/18. Conductor; Narrator TBA. Bethel CA, February-March, 2019. Sferics, MUSLAB, NEW PUBLICATIONS: Self published: Requiem Congregational United Church of Plaza Mayor of the Autonomous University of for My Father, for clarinet, horn, and piano, and Christ, Beaverton, OR, 11/11/18. The Inspector Madrid, Spain, 11/07/18. Black Ice, Sferics, Four Ballads, oboe/English horn, bassoon or General: Overture. University of Wyoming Gravity Spells collaboration with film artist cello, and piano. Symphony Orchestra; Dr. Michael Griffith, Craig Baldwin, Lexington, Kentucky, 7/18. NEWS: The Capital City Symphony (Washington, Conductor, University of Wyoming; Laramie, Moire, soundtrack for Jordan Belson’s video DC) has commissioned a new work to be Bardo, “Black Light” installation, CENTRE DE 9/20/18. premiered in 3/19. Oedipus Suite is a CULTURA CONTEMPORÀNIA DE BARCELONA, NEW PUBLICATIONS: Tournament Galop, for 20-minute work for large orchestra based on Spain, 5/16-10/21/18. Black Ice, 4 channel, concert band (By Louis M. Gottschalk, Arranged materials I wrote for a theater piece in 1990. Forum Wallis Ars Electronica, by Steven L. Rosenhaus). Published by Grand Swiss Contemporary Music Mesa Music. ROBERT XAVIER RODRÍGUEZ ••• Festival 2018, Schloss Leuk, NEWS: Commission: String Orchestra Work PREMIERES: (All works published by G. Switzerland, 5/18/18. for the Fisher Middle School String Orchestra, Schirmer, Inc.) Menasherie, Young People’s NEWS: My work (working title Colleen Ferry, Director, 1/19. Publication of Chorus of New York City, Merkin Hall, 11/3/18. Soundscape), was selected short story, “You Are Music, Inc.”, as part of PERFORMANCES: Tango Amor & Tango Sueño, for a two-month installation at an anthology of science-fiction works about Enric Madriguera, guitar, Escuela International, the Downtown Berkeley BART PAYNE memory; published by JennJett Media, early Bogota, Colombia, 7/18/18. Scrooge, for bass- Plaza, tentatively scheduled 2019. Publication of JFK: A Profile for narrator baritone, chorus, orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo for February-March, 2019. This discrete eight and band or orchestra, based on speeches Symphony, Kitchener, Ontario, 12/14-16/18. channel work will be played continuously for four of John F. Kennedy; both orchestra and band Frida, Florida Grand Opera; various in Miami and hours each day, and will travel through eight versions to be published by LudwigMasters Fort Lauderdale, 3/16-30/19. (7 performances); sections over the course of approximately 17 Publications in 2019.

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70GREG SANDERS •• by vocal students at Mississippi College, Clinton GREG A. STEINKE PERFORMANCES: Prairie Wind, Prairie Wind MS, 10/22/18. Completed work Upon This PREMIERES: A Memorial, Esther Seitz, Cello, Ensemble, Jim Tallman, conductor, PWE 40th Solemn Hill, for chorus, soloist, and orchestra. NACUSA 2018 National Conference, J.C. Anniversary Concert, Peoria, IL, 5/11/18. Nichols Auditorium, WW I Museum, Kansas City, Running Horses, Texas A&M University Kingsville MICHAEL SCHELLE ••• KS, 3/16/18. Premiere and Performance of Wind Symphony, Scott Jones, PREMIERES: Bury the Hatchet, commissioned Fanfare I for Brass and Percussion, David Bryan, conductor, Kingsville, TX, 4/18. by the Corona Guitar Kvartet, Copenhagen, conductor, 2018 Big Horn Brass Spring Concert Coventry Variant, Prairie Wind Denmark; on tour throughout Denmark, summer “Music Masters Past and Present,” co-sponsor Concert Band, Brock Duncan, 2018. Alberti Bombardier, Susanne Kessel, NACUSA Cascadia, St. Matthew Lutheran conductor, Willmar, MN, 11/18; piano, Bonn, Germany, 6/18. The Eisenstein Church, Beaverton, OR, 4/21/18. also, College Community School Mummers, for winds, strings, percussion, piano PERFORMANCES: Suite, Owen Hucke, piano, Band, Craig Aune Duncan, and three accordions Vu Nguyen, conductor, NACUSA or “Winter Tales“ Concert, Ashland OR, Methodist Church, 2/3/18. Don’t We, Madelyn conductor, Cedar Rapids, SANDERS Eidson Duckwall Recital Hall, Indianapolis, IN, IA, 5/17. Coventry Variant is 4/10/18; also, same concert, The Illusion of Moore, clarinet, NACUSA 2018 National currently on several states’ required music lists Invincibility, Kelly Soyoung Lee, violin, Catherine Conference, William Jewell College, Liberty, MO, for adjudicated performances. Bringerud, piano; Hesitation Killed the Cat 3/17/18. Wind River Country, Konza Winds NEW WORKS: Now available:…and the Waters for flute, bass clarinet, cello Woodwind Quintet, SCI National Conference, Parted, for string orchestra; Visions of Darkness, and harp. Rosemary’s Baby’s All-Faiths Chapel Auditorium, Kansas State for soprano and piano; Songs of Innocence, for Accordions for three accordions, University, Manhattan, KS, 4/6/18. Six Pieces, soprano and clarinet. guitar, violin, Chatterbox Jazz Libby Kardontchik, NACUSAsf “A Concert of NEWS: Dr. Greg Sanders was recently appointed Club, Mass Ave., Indianapolis, New American Music”, Foothill Presbyterian a Regents Professor of the Texas AM University IN, 5/29/18. Church, San Jose, CA, 4/7/18. Incantation System in 2/18. PERFORMANCES: Extraction - Meditation – Dance, John Thomas Burson, on No. 9, NDC Wind Ensemble, SCHELLE trumpet/flugelhorn, James French, Organ, NACUSALA “Pull Out the Stops,” St. Athanasius JAMES SCLATER Michael Krueger, conductor, Episcopal Church, , CA 4/8/18. PREMIERES: In Paradisum, Mississippi Chorus, Notre Dame College, Cleveland, OH, 4/20/18; Another New Beginning Ii (Image Music V-a), Viola Dacus, soloist, Mark Nabholz, conductor, also, Westchester Symphonic Winds, Curt Paul Reilly, guitar, 30th Annual Guitar Festival, Pearl (MS) HS Performing Arts Complex, Ebersole, music director, White Plains, NY, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 4/19/18. 4/14/18. Spirituals, James Sclater, clarinet 11/11/18. Prayer, Joshua DeVries, cello, an Gogh Vignettes (Image Music XXII) Sophia Dottie Serio, piano, Northside Baptist Church, University of Michigan Wind Ensemble, Courtney Tegart, flute/piccolo, Leonard Garrison, flute/ Clinton MS, 7/15/18. Seasonal Preludes, James Snyder, conductor, Ann Arbor, MI, 11/9/18. alto flute, CMS 2018 Pacific Northwest Regional Sclater, clarinet, Dottie Serio, piano, Northside Chords That Rhyme With Your Eyes, for clarinet Conference, Washington State University, and piano, The Chicago Ensemble, Gerald Baptist Church, 12/12/17. Partita, Miric Duo, Pullman, 4/27/18. amily Portrait, Carey Lewis, guitars, Jacob Benda, organ, St. Paul, MN, Rizzer, music director, 4/20/19. The End of Al piano, NACUSA Cascadia Made in Oregon 1/6/19. Capone, chamber opera, Uniwersytet Muzyczny Concert, Astoria Music Festival), Carey Lewis, PERFORMANCES: Variations and Toccata Fryderyka Chopina, Ignacy Zalewski, music Piano, 5/20/18; also, Leo Trajano, piano, on a theme by Paganini, Angela Willoughby, director and conductor, Chopin University of NACUSA Cascadia In Good piano, also, Sweet Swingin’ Suite, Vince Music, Warsaw, Poland, April 2019. Hands Concert, PSU, Portland, Massimino, violin, Ken Graves, NEW PUBLICATIONS: Alberti Bombardier, for 6/16/18. To Get To Fresno, clarinet, Angela Willoughby, solo piano, Editions Musica Ferrum – London, UK Karen Henry, reciter, Katherine piano, Mississippi Museum Kleitz, flute, Marc Lauritsen, of Art, Jackson MS. (Music in HALIDE K. SMITH • piano, Row Twelve Ensemble, the City Series), 11/7/17. No PERFORMANCES: I Hear Voices, America Home: A Concert, Fairer Isle on Which to Dwell, Jessica Salley, soprano, Jessica Harvard, MA, 9/17/18. From STEINKE Mandy Spivak, Tyler Kemp, Koebbe, piano, Kansas City ARMGART, Rachel Labovitch, Mississippi College, Clinton, MS, SCLATER SAI Musicale, Woods Chapel soprano, James French, piano NACUSAsf in 4/3/18. Three Psalms, Korean United Methodist Church, Lee’s NACUSALA “Local Vocal” Concert, St. Athanasius International School Chamber Choir, Jack Summit, MO, 3/12/18. A Rose, Episcopal Church, 10/7/18. Brown, conductor, KIS, Seoul Korea, 5/9/18. Vicki Hedger, piano, Kansas City NEW PUBLICATIONS: All Tierra del Mar Music. Symphony #2 (Four Movements from Mobile Music Therapist and the Kansas SMITH Random Blackouts Iv (Image Music XLIV), Tenor Suite), Mississippi Wind Symphony, Craig Young, City Alumnae Chapter of Sigma and Guitar, c. 18’ 12/31/17. A Memorial (Image conductor, St. Joseph HS Auditorium, Madison Alpha Iota International Fraternity Sensory Music VIIA), Viola or Violoncello c. 15’ 1/22/18. MS, 6/5/18. Friendly Concert, Overland Park, Kansas. To Get To Fresno, 10’30”, 8/18. NEWS: Sclater recognized by City of Clinton MS NEWS: Piano solo A Rose received first place NEW RECORDINGS: Van Gogh Vignettes, with plaque at Public Library for contributions award and Trio for flute, violin and piano Epipé Iwona Glinka, flutes, Flute Duet, Phasma-Music to music, 3/22/18. Mississippi Institute of Arts received second place multiple instrumental Foundation (NAXOS). Winners and Selected and Letters, 2018 award for Classical Music award at the November 2017 Florida State Composers, (2018 edition) for Toccata Fantasy I Composition for No Fairer Isle on Which to National League of American Pen Women State , solo piano, RMN Classical CD. Dwell. Honored with program of his songs sung Conference competition. YOUR NEWS: Semi-finalist (Chamber Music/

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Gave short pre-concert talks about piano, Ferguson Hall, University of Minnesota, Blackouts I for Baritone and Piano 4 Hands. my works at the concerts by Calliope and the Minneapolis, MN, 5/5/18. Hear my prayer, O Announced Apr. 18). INQUIETUDE, Robin Pathelion Trio, and participated as part of Lord, No. 3 of 3 Psalms, Kantorei Chamber Meiksins, flute,52 Weeks of Flute Project, a panel of composers at SPECTRUM during th Choir, Axel Theimer, conductor, St. Mary’s YouTube April 22–28 . the 6/3/18 concert by Karen Bentley Pollick. Chapel, St. Paul Seminary, Saint Paul, 5/5/18. Several works broadcast multiple times on FAYE-ELLEN SILVERMAN One Fair Summer Eve, Minnesota State Band, Radio Arts Indonesia. PREMIERES: Warm Words for Keith Liuzzi, conductor, Benson Great Hall, a Cold Evening (piano 6 hands), MARY JANE TASHIRO Bethel University, 11/3/18. Christopher Vassiliades, Isabelle PREMIERES: Let’s Dance and Refreshing PERFORMANCES: Of Things Hoped For, James O’Connell, Jai Jeffryes, pianists, Moment, Op. 80, Tashiro, piano, Altadena Biery, organ, Morning Star-Canticle, Cathedral of Composers Concordance, St. Presbyterian Church, CA, 12/17/17. Tribute, Op. St. Paul, Minn., 5/3/18. Greetings and Farewell, Mark’s Church-in-The-Bowery, 83, Nos. 1-3, Tashiro, piano, Grace Episcopal Cathy Shafer Schubilske, violin, Mary Jo New York, NY, 2/11/18. Church, Scarsdale, NY 6/19/18. Gothmann, piano, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, Journeying from B to C, Baron SILVERMAN PERFORMANCES: A Kid at Heart, Op. 2, No. 2, MN, 5/5/18. Heard in a Violent Ward, Alan Fenwick, piano, Music Under Construction 25th Alex Cao, piano, Grace Episcopal Church, Dunbar, baritone, Mark Bilyeu, piano, St. Paul, Anniversary Concert, Glass Box Theater, The Scarsdale, NY, 12/3/17. MN, 5/11/18. The Wings of the Morning, Pei- New School, NYC, 2/18/18. Kalends, Calliope NEW PUBLICATIONS: Children’s Piano Course: Han Chao, soprano, Tong Cheng, piano, Source Brass (Rebecca Steinberg, trumpet; Kate Umble 1. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Op. 72-A Song Festival, Minneapolis, MN, 8/10/18. Smucker, trumpet; Erin A. Paul, horn; Sara (Arrangement); 2. Holiday Songs NEW PUBLICATIONS: Wherever Christ is Mayo, trombone; Jen Hinkle, bass trombone), for Children, Op. 75-A; 3. Present, for SATB, organ: http://www. Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, Fort Holiday Season, Op. 76 canticledistributing.com/choral/choral- Washington Collegiate Church, NYC, 2/24/18. (Arrangements of 8 popular series/lutheranarts-martin-luther-hymn-prize- Let’s Play, Mariana Mantovani, Aline Muller, Christmas and New Year’s commissions/wherever-christ-is-present.html violins, Julia Rusig, viola, Juliana Mantovani, songs); 4. Major - Minor Piano Dave’s Reel, for piano solo: https:// cello, V “Encontro International de Cordas,” Solos, Op. 82 Advanced Works: nmsnewhaven.org/renee-b-fisher-piano- Palacete Levy, Limeira, Brazil, 6/22/18. 1. Let’s Dance and Refreshing TASHIRO competition-commissioned-pieces/ PERFORMANCES: Memories, Karen Bentley Moment, Op. 80; 2. Progressive RECORDINGS: Blake Songs, on Mostly Pollick, viola, Chapel of Good Shepherd Center Technique, 19th to 21st Century, Minnesota Art Song: Patricia Kent, soprano, Seattle, WA, 2/1/18; also, SPECTRUM Female Op. 75; 3. Artistry Thru Technique, Op. 78; 4. Edward Turley, piano. Available as free Composers Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 6/2/18. Tribute, Op. 83, Nos. 1-3. download: https://digitalcommons.csbsju. Custom-made Shades, InterXchange Ensemble Publisher: MJT Music edu/music_recordings/14/Carol of the Night, (Eddie Lima, trombone; Mario Reboucas, piano), VIDEOS: Youtube channel: Centro Livre de Aprendizagem Musical (CLAM), MARYJANETASHIROMUSIC, Before and After, for SATB chorus São Paulo, Brazil, 6/21/18; also, Nicole Abissi, Artistry thru Technique Nos. 1 - 4 & Video unaccompanied, on Beautiful trombone, Hanako Yamagata, piano, Leshowitz Demonstration, No. 5. Contact by e-mail: Star, by VocalEssence, https:// Recital Hall, Montclair New Jersey State [email protected] www.vocalessence.org/ University, 2/11/18. Conversations Continued, NEWS: In the summer of 2016, I was asked to recording/beautiful-star/ Sarah Currier, alto flute, Ashlee Miller, clarinet, help a young piano student having problems NEWS: 2018 commissions Parlour Room Series, Brooklyn New York with tightness. His plan was to audition for the include a suite, One Fair THOMAS Conservatory of Music, 3/16/18. Pas de College Prep. Program at Manhattan School of Summer Eve, for The Minnesota Deux, Iktus Percussion Ensemble (Christopher Music in Feb. 2017. With 9 months of intensive State Band in celebration of its Graham, marimba, Andrea Lodge, piano), work and having transformed from “tight” to 120th Anniversary. Other current commissions APNM Concert Series, Arete Venue and Gallery, “relaxed expressive” playing, he passed the include a choral suite for South Metro Chorale Brooklyn, 5/11/18. At the Colour Cafe for brass audition. The explanation of the technique on (MN) in honor of its 20th Anniversary; a hymn ensemble Hora Decima Brass Ensemble, David youtube showing the Before and After of the 14 collaboration with James Gertmenian in honor Chamberlain, conductor, Christ & St. Stephens year old becoming a confident 15 year old lends of Philip Brunelle’s 50th year at Plymouth Church, NYC, 11/4/18. authenticity to the value of this technique. This Congregational Church, Minneapolis; and a NEW PUBLICATIONS: All Subito Music Corp.: video and 5 videos, are shown explaining the choral work in honor of Kantorei’s Director, Axel Journeying from B to C. Warm Words for a Cold Reflex Stroke with Follow Through (Artistry thru Theimer. In October 2018 Thomas was initiated Evening, piano 6 hands. Technique) and ends with a performance of a into Sigma Alpha Iota Fraternity as a National NEWS: Received a commission from Julie composition written specifically for the students Arts Associate by the Minneapolis/Saint Paul Landsman for a work for solo horn. Became to practice. You can see the 6 videos by going to Alumnae Chapter.

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70 HOLLIS THOMS beloved Laura, written for the marriage of his University of GA, 2/9/18. On the Wing, Rachel PREMIERES: Fall Dancing, Jacqueline Pollauf, son Jonas and new daughter-in-law Stacey. Fischer, violin, Stephen Fischer, alto saxophone, harp, and Laura Ruas, double bass Baltimore Greg Hankins, piano, North American Composers Forum Concert at Corner Community PERSIS PARSHALL VEHAR • Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference, Center in Baltimore, 11/17/18. Two Limericks, PREMIERES: Pushed Aside, Heather Buchman, University of Cincinnati, OH, 3/9/18. poems by Eastman composer Warren Benson, conductor, commissioned by the Syracuse PERFORMANCES: It is Best Not to be Born, Annie Gill, soprano, Andrew Stewart, piano, Society for New Music and New York State at Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, Paula Fan, Music, Gettysburg! Concert, 3/17/19. Three Carrier Theater, Syracuse Civic Center, Syracuse, piano, American Composers Alliance Music for African American Songs based on writings by E. NY, by the Syracuse Society for New Music. Voice, Concert II, National Opera Center, New Ethelbert Miller, August Wilson and Frederick Vehar’s 8th opera tells the story of Matilda Joclyn York City, NY, 10/21/17. Temporal Landscape Douglass, Joseph Regan, tenor, Jason Thoms, Gage, one of the original Number Six, Kenneth Jimenez, trumpet, baritone, Andrew Stewart, piano, Music, triumvirate with Susan B. Nicholaus Meyers, percussion, University Gettysburg! Concert, 3/17/19. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady of Minnesota, Morris, 11/5/17. Cityscapes, PERFORMANCES: Psalm 90, based on a Stanton. Gage was written out of Northwestern State University of Louisiana versification by poet Robert Burns Sonja history by Anthony. Gage was Clarinet Choir, David Steel, director, 2018 (Thoms) Winkler, oboe, Jacqueline Thoms, the most radical of the three, an Southeastern Composers League Forum, soprano, Brenda Weiser, piano, Evangelical activist who stood up for equal Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Lutheran Church, Frederick, MD, 5/27/18. Child rights for women and also VEHAR Natchitoches, 2/24/17. in a Manger, based on a poem by Madeleine African-Americans & Native NEW PUBLICATIONS: All Howard J. Buss L’Engle and a traditional text Sonja (Thoms) Americans; 1/21/18; also, Cazenovia College Publications. Solos for Celebrations and Winkler, oboe, Brenda Weiser, organ, and Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Remembrances, oboe solo, 2017. Night Moves Evangelical Lutheran Church, Frederick, MD, Seneca Falls, NY, 7/20-21/18; Society for New trumpet and piano, 2017. Journeys, flute and 12/23/18. Spring Dancing, based on two Music at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, string quartet, 2018. Six Dialogues, flute and poems by E. E. Cummings, Annie Gill, soprano, 3/24/19; Society for New Music at Hamilton horn, 2018. On the Wing, violin, alto saxophone, Andrew Stewart, piano Music, Gettysburg! College, Clinton, NY, 4/13/19. piano, 2018. Concert, 3/17/19. PERFORMANCES: Excerpts from The Original NEW RECORDINGS: One Flesh, Michael NEW PUBLICATIONS: Memoirs: Through Music Hard Luck Story of The Universe (Settings of 23 Eversden, bass trombone, and Pamela Wallen, and Texts (2018) a book of memoirs based on Charles Bukowski’s poems), Martin Matthews, flute.Yao-Chun Chang, baritone; Shyen Lee, Hollis Thoms’ major musical works based on a Metropolitan Opera Bass, Iris Malkin, piano, soprano saxophone, and I-An Amber Chen, variety of literary texts over the past fifteen years Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall, Long Beach, CA; piano, The Changing Saxophone, HOVE CD. was published this year to commemorate his also, St. Francis by-the-Sea, Laguna Beach, 9/1- (SHL001). 70th birthday. Copies may be ordered by going to 2/18. Women, Women, Ivy Walz, soprano, his website at www.hollisthoms.com. An article Vehar, piano, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, JOELLE WALLACH entitled “Henry David Thoreau’s Transcendental 3/26/19. PREMIERES: La Madre Triste, Symphonies” will be published in the Winter/ NEW PUBLICATIONS: Pushed Aside self- from Piececitos, American Composer Issue of PAN PIPES, published by VIF. Sound-Piece for Cello & Piano Chamber Ensemble, 9/16/18. 2019. by VIF. Sepia Silhouette from Through NEWS: Mr. Thoms has just NEW RECORDINGS: On Modern American the Oval Window Marvin Rosen, completed a “Trilogy” (2018) Artsong, Women, Women, Sharon Mabry, piano, Piano by Nature Series based on three of his favorite mezzo-soprano, Patsy Wade, piano; Albany. at the Historic Hand House, literary works. As a collector of NEWS: Received her 34th consecutive Elizabethtown, NY, 9/15/18. WALLACH rare books, he has a 1526 ASCAPLUS Award for excellence in composition. Dancing Toward Dusk, a cycle edition of Dante’s Divine THOMS New Project: 2020--Consortium Commission by of three mystical meditations on maturity, Triple Comedy, an 1830 edition of Benjamin Hay, member of Signature Symphony, Riot Chamber Ensemble, Catskill, NY, 8/12/18. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and a 1770 edition Tulsa, OK, & Faculty Member of Northeastern U PERFORMANCES: When Lost in the Forest, of Milton’s Paradise Lost. He has created a 60- of Oklahoma, to compose a Concerto for Solo Uncommon Music Festival, Sitka, Alaska, minute dramatic musical work based on Cantos Trumpet(s) for Soloist Hay & the Northeastern U 8/4-5/18. Loveletter, Postmark San Jose, Ava 33 and 34 from Dante’s Divine Comedy for vocal of Oklahoma Wind Ensemble’s 2020 Ordman, trombone, International Trombone quartet, brass quintet, marimba and tom-toms; International Tour. Festival, Iowa City, IA, 7/13/18. The Clothes Chanticleer from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for of Heaven, also Psalm 23 for oboe, organ and vocal quartet, string quintet, guitar and ROGER C. VOGEL chorus Riverdale Choral Society, NYC, 5/6/18. A harpsichord; and, Adam and Eve from Milton’s PREMIERES: Journeys, Hannah Revisitation of Myth, 2/4/18. Paradise Lost, for vocal quartet, woodwind Peterson, flute, Vivian Cheng, NEW PUBLICATIONS: Loveletter, Postmark San quintet, string bass and harp. He is hoping to violin, Annie Leeth, violin, Will Jose, for strings (or piano) and Tuba, Euphonium have the premiere of the work during his wife, Ruff, viola, Jordi Lara, cello, or Trombone, published by Potenza Music. Jacqueline, and his 50th wedding anniversary University of Georgia, 12/10/17. NEWS: When I began work on Piececitos, I year in 2020. Also completed is a song cycle for Six Dialogues, Achim Reus, had no idea how timely it would be the week tenor and guitar entitled “Occhi” based on horn, Angela Jones-Reus, flute, of its completion: a vivid musical meditation Petrarch’s famous cycle of poems on his Southeast Horn Workshop, VOGEL on motherhood, migration, and exile based

14 Winter 2019 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org • SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate th • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE on poems by Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin CHRISTOPHER WEAIT ••• 10/17/17. 70 American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Set PREMIERES: Ohio Tunes for NEW PUBLICATIONS: Clamorous Fanfare for 4 in the original Spanish, Piececitos’ five songs Brass Quintet, also, Eight oboes and English horn, 2017 (1’25). Clarinet for voice, violin, cello and piano interweave from Quebec, Village Brass Warm-Ups. Dialogues for oboe and clarinet Latin American dance rhythms with haunting Quintet, James Cancer Hospital, (5’36). Divertimento for Strings (9’44). Emily’s melodies: lullabies and laments of a mother Columbus, OH, 9/22/17. Bees & Bells for voice and orchestra (8’31); on her treacherous journey toward refuge Sarabande and Scherzo for lyrics Emily Dickinson. Emily’s Bees & Bells for Alto and Baritone Saxophone, voice and piano (8’31), lyrics Emily Dickinson. Piececitos uses traditional musical patterns Prof. Heidi Radtke Faculty Five Exchanges for Clarinet and Bassoon (7’32). and pre-existing quotations to blend or contrast WEAIT Recital, Butler University Peace for men’s chorus (TTB), 2018 (2’15). with newly composed elements/ Folkloric School of Music, Indianapolis, Sarabande and Scherzo for alto and baritone wisdom, generational and cultural ties clash in a IN, 11/28/17. Golden Oldies Suite No. 1, saxophone, 2017 (5’25). All published by Weait mother’s inner dialogue of hope, terror and love Village Brass Quintet, Friendship Village of Music, 6717 Birchton Court, Dublin, OH 43017. as she struggles toward refuge for her children. Dublin, OH, 2/14/18. Emily’s Bees and Bells, From the prophetic and political to the sublime Chelsea Melcher, soprano, MacConnell Arts ELISABETH GRIEGER WIEGAND • and the ridiculous: immediately after completing Center Chamber Orchestra, Antoine T. Clarke, NEWS: Wiegand received the Lifetime Piececitos, I composed a lyrical, SATB lullaby conductor, MacConnell Arts Center Worthington, Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who setting of Senex Puerum Portabat, from the OH, 4/29/18. Editorial Department for 2017. Her picture and liturgy for Candlemas as well as a hilarious, sexy, PERFORMANCES: Drumming Up America! for biography appeared in the Lifetime Achievement and sophisticated song, Basket, in the voice of rudimental drums and band, USMA Band Lt. Col section of the book and on the th Gertrude Stein’s dog. Tod Addison, conductor, celebrating the 200 Internet. Ms. Wiegand is currently anniversary of the West Point Band, Eisenhower producing an educational DVD on WANG AN-MING ••• Theater, United States Military Academy, West Channel 99-TV in Michigan City, PERFORMANCES: Laudamus Point NY, 6/21/17. A Concert of Double Reed using two of her compositions. te, The Peony, Sakura, Nancy Music by Christopher Weait: A Prelude and Nine of her piano students at Stanley, flute, Grace Reid, Two Postcards for reed quintet; Lonely Island Queen of the Saints School will piano, Chevy Chase National for solo bassoon; Sarabande and Scherzo for perform on the program and English horn and bass clarinet; Variations for will be enacted by three. The WIEGAND League of American Pen solo bassoon; Circus for oboe and bassoon; songs are When the Rain Fall Women, Chevy Chase, MD, Boulevard Amble for 3 English horns and 2 – Don’t Do Drugs and She Held Her Close – 9/15/18. Sonata for Clarinet contrabassoons; Two Thin Pieces of Bamboo Don’t Talk to Strangers. Each has received the and Piano, Mark G. Simon, WANG Cane; various performers, 2017 International ASCAP PLUS cash award. Special guests include clarinet, Jeong Soon Choi, piano, Double Reed Society Conference, Stansbury Indiana Senator Mike Bohacek; Most Holy Rev. Strathmore Mansion, North Theater, Lawrence University, Appleton WI, Donald J. Hying, Bishop, Gary Diocese; members Bethesda, MD, 1/18/18; also, Calvary Baptist 6/21/17. A Prelude and Two Postcards, of the Michigan City Police Department; and Church, Washington, DC, 1/12/18. Wang’s Paradise Winds, International Double Reed tenor soloist George Mores. Copies of the DVD music streamed from KNBD 1047, Eugene OR, Society 2017 Conference, Stansbury Theater, will be available at the Channel 99 studio. It will 10/22/17. Lawrence University, Appleton WI, 6/24/17. be broadcast periodically on TV, as well as radio NEWS: Let All the World in Every Corner Sing Reverie and Revelry for clarinet, bassoon, stations WLIO, WIMS, and WEFM. Ms. Weigand’s for mixed chorus and brass and organ won and piano, Trifecta! International Double photo is on the cover of Global Peace: Inspiring Honorable Mention in the 2019 Biennial Music Reed Society 2017 Conference, Harper Hall, the Youth of America, Remington Biographies, Competition of the National Leave of American Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, 6/24/17. NY; her biography has been lengthened. It will include current activities and pictures, Pen Women. Ten By Three, Pamela Ajango, oboe, Douglas Spaniol, bassoon, Kate Boyd, piano, Butler including those of her grandchildren and great- University School of Music, Indianapolis IN, grandchildren.

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