THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MUSIC presents THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS INC. REGION IV CONFERENCE November 17-19, 1988 Frank Moody Music Building Tuscaloosa, Alabama Society of Composers, Inc. 1988 Region IV Conference Schedule of Events THURSDAY - Noyember 17 8:45 a.m Registration Lobby (Coffee and Doughnuts and Tour of Music Building) 9:45 Welcome- Dr. Dennis Monk Choral-Opera 10:00 Lecture Choral-Opera Darmstadt 88 and the New Pluralism - Mark Lee 10:45 Concert Choral-Opera 5 The Unified Arts Ensemble of Motlow State Community College Stockhausen - Tierkries, Wellen Feldman - Durations 2 Monk - View 1, Ester's Song, Paris Glass - 1 + 1, Opening, The Olympian 1:30 p.m. Concert FNB Concert Hall --- 6 Clemmons - Sonata - solo violin (Rubin) Presser - Horn Quartet (Snead, Linsley, Mattingly, Furry) Smoke - Three Movements - clarinet & percussion (Bridges.Mathis) Pinney - (4*2) + 2 Mason - Windage - organ (Cook) 3:00 Recital Huey Recital Hall 6 Benoit - Suite No.2 - piano (Smith) Ledee -ABCISSA - clarinet (LeDee) Wendt - Elegy - trombone (Stalling) Landers - Fugue - piano (Frederick) Thompson - Three Pieces - cello (Holland) Whitfield - Piano Trio No. 1 (Dyer, Stout, Freeze) Robbins - Percussion Trio - (Walters, Mosley, Williams) 4:15 Lecture/Panel Discussion Choral-Opera Collaboration Between Composers and Poets - Lola Haskins Respondents - Dinos Constantinides, Harold Schiffman, John White Moderator - Harold Phillips 8:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall --- 7 The University of Alabama Symphony Orchestra Schiffman - Capricci Concertati Phillips - Popul Vuh Constantinides - Four Songs on Poems by Sappho Howe - Elegy for Strings White - Symphony for a Saint 2 FRIDAY - November 18 9:00 a.m. Late registration Choral-Opera 9:30 Recital Huey Recital Hall -----· 11 Lee - 2R - guitar (Lee) Kinningham - Tribute - clarinet & piano (Crabtree, Freeze) Sain - Parallel - flute (Sain) Millen - Fantasy - flute & piano (Bull, Perez) Eastman - The Signs of The Zodiac - flute (Cohen) Robison - Quartet - woodwinds & tape (Boyd, Sanders, Crabtree, Simpson) 11:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall -----11 Sleeper - Four Miniatures - bassoon & flute (Sleeper, Rickman) Weigal - Augmented Break - violin (Constantinides) Ovens - Third Improvisation - percussion (Ovens) White - Homage a Gxe:xx Gxx.xd - piano (White) Robertson - Music - cello & piano (Harrell, Lee) 1:30 p.m. Paper Huey Recital Hall The Alabama Electronic Studios - Brad Albers 2:15 Panel Discussion Huey Recital Hall The Design of Electronic Music Studios and Musical Bias Panel - Brad Albers, Hubert Howe, John Melby, Sylvia Pengilly Moderator - Marvin Johnson 3:45 Electronic Music Concert FNB Concert Hall -----12 Pengilly - Dimensions of Space and Time - tape (Pengilly) Albers - Nexus - tape (Albers) Freund - Steel Grey Sky - electronic keyboard (Freund) Melby - Chor der Toten - tape (Melby) Howe - Piece for DX-7 Synthesizer Ensemble 5:30 Wine and Cheese Party (Cash Bar) University Club 8:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall -----13 The Alabama Wind Ensemble Davis - Fanfare, Meditation, and Scherzo Montalto - Symphony Hayden - Scintilla Van Appledom - Cacophony Finney - Saxophone Concerto 3 SA TUR DAY - November 19 8:30 a.m. Business Meeting (late registration) Choral-Opera 9:30 Recital Huey Recital Hall 17 Van Der Slice - Variations - flute & piano (Cohen, Penick) Daugherty - Numinous Ignotus- clarinet & piano (Bridges, Wilder) Hoffman -Autumn Song - violin (Ross) Adams - Syzygy - violin & marimba (Monacelli, Walters) · Raitt -Aromas cello & piano (Holland, Smith) Garcia - Sonic Islands in a Sea of Solitude - flt, ob, clar, tbn (Boyd, Irish, McFarlen, Mason) 11:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall 17 Tipton - Four Alice Walker Songs - baritone, piano, percussion (Tipton, Perry) Montalto - Quiet Waters - soprano & tape (Dorough) Contemporary Ensemble of The University of Alabama Drennen - Palempsest - piano (Frederick) Eastman - A New Day - soprano, alto, tenor, bass, piano (Hatchett, Johnston, Freeze, Tibbs, Frederick) Johnson - Parsley Sage - chorus and tape Kam - Allelulia - organ (Risinger) Kindred - Hagia Sophia - baritone, organ, chorus (Tibbs, Risinger) 2:00 p.m. Panel Discussion Choral-Opera Twentieth Century Music and Aesthetic Diversity Ross Lee Finney, Don Freund, Hubert Howe, Dennis Kam Moderator - Frederic Goossen 4:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall 23 Constantinides - Sonata No. 2 - solo violin (Rubin) Freund - LifeGoes On - violin & piano (Ross, Freund) Goossen - Tenebrae - piano (Murray) Sieg - Piano Trio (Cadek) Kallstrom - Tropism - piano trio (Cadek) 5:30 Alabama Teachers of Music Theory Choral-Opera Business Meeting 8:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall -- 24 Contemporary Ensemble of the University of Georgia Finney - Quartet/or Oboe, Cello, Percussion, and Piano Melby - Concerto for Clarinet and Tape Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King 10:00 Party (cash bar) Sheraton Hotel 4 Thursday, November 17, 1988 10:45 a.m. - Choral Opera Room - Moody Music Building The Unified Arts Ensemble of Motlow State Community College Tullahoma, Tennessee Mark Lee, Director PROGRAM Tiel 1 Karlheinz Stockhausen Tierkries ( 197 6) Mark Prince Lee, guitar Wellen (1968), from Fiir Kommende Zeiten Mark Prince Lee, guitar Beverly Barnes, keyboard Patrick McCurdy, bass Tiel 2 Morton Feldman Durations 2 (1963) Kristie Beavers, piano Patrick McCurdy, bass Tiel 3 Meredith Monk View 1 Ester's Song (1986) from the ballet/opera Turtle Dreams Paris (1978) Kristie Beavers - soprano, keyboard Beverly Barnes - alto, keyboard Mark Prince Lee - guitar, keyboard Patrick McCurdy - bass Alan Odegaard - saxophone Teil 4 Philip Glass l+l Opening The Olympian Kristie Beavers, piano Beverly Barnes, keyboard Mark Prince Lee, keyboard Patrick McCurdy, bass Alan Odegaard, saxophone Forty-third Concert of the 1988-89 Season 5 Thursday, November 17, 1988 1:30 p .m. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building PROGRAM Sonata (1975) W.R. Clemmons Variants Sentiments Caprice Reflections Henry Rubin, violin Horn Quartet William Presser Charles Snead, Victoria Linsley, Alan Mattingly, Stephanie Furry Three Movements Gary Smoke Scott Bridges , clarinet Larry Mathis, percussion (4*2) + 2 Gregory Pinney Contemporay Ensemble of the University of Alabama Scott Bridges, conductor Windage Charles Mason Jim Cook, organ Forty-fourth Program of the 1988-89 Season Thursday, November 17, 1988 3 p.m. - Huey Recital Hall - Moody Music Building PROGRAM Suite No. 2 Kenneth Benoit Jonathan Smith, piano ABCISSA Mikel LeDee Mikel LeDee, clarinet Elegy Lewis Wendt Richard Stalling, trombone Gerald Loren Welker, conductor 6 Fugue Joseph Landers Amy Frederick, piano Three Pieces Peggy Thompson James Holland, violoncello Piano Trio No. 1 Matt Whitfield Monica Dyer, violin Joe Stout, violoncello Greg Freeze, piano Percussion Trio Scott Robbins Cori Walters, Kevin Mosley, Woody Williams Forty-fifth Program of the 1988-89 Season Thursday, November 17, 1988 8 p.m. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building The University of Alabama Symphony Orchestra Carlton McCreery, conductor Capricci Concertati Harold Schiffman I. Allegro giocoso II. Andantino gracioso III. Precississimo Michael Gattozzi, violin; Diane Boyd, flute Robert Sanders, oboe; Billy Crabtree, clarinet John Irish, clarinet; David Simpson, bassoon Mark Foster, trombone; Cynthia Zoller, percussion Gerald Loren Welker, conductor Popol Vuh H. Garrett Phillips Allegro moderato-Adagio sostenuto-Allegro assai Henry Rubin, violin; Melissa Ross, viola Alan Harrell, violoncello; Scott Bridges, clarinet Larry Mathis, percussion; Jonathan Smith, piano Gerald Loren Welker, conductor INTERMISSION Four Songs On Poems By Sappho Dinos Constantinides I. Homecoming 7 II. To A Handsome Man 111. Candor IV. Light Vanishing Susan Fleming, mezzo-soprano Elegie For Strings Hubert Howe Symphony For A Saint John White I. Prologue II. Nuptual Mass III. The Conversion Of Valerian IV. Martyrdom V . Transfiguration Cecilia- Karen White , soprano Valerian- Stephen Cary, tenor Narrator- Ed White, bass-baritone Forty-Seventh Program of the 1988-89 Season Four Songs on Poems by Sappho Symphony for a Saint I. Homecoming I. You have come. Comes now, comes now Cecilia Well done. Like a weeping bird whose sob is joy, I longed for you. Who flies to the glass of her own reflection You have given fire to my heart Who seeks the inside of the sanctuary, which burns now for you. Who falls among the little leaves Welcome, be welcome. And is held gentle in his hands that carry Welcome for all the hours of our separa­ her within. tion. Comes now, comes now Cecilia Like a simple flower that sings the sun II. To a Handsome Man inside her petals when the sun is gone, Stand up and gaze on me who brought Valerian to the Lord, as friend to friend. who taught him to cup the rain in his Reveal openly to me wounds as he left the Earth the beauty in your eyes. to the executioners whose wiped swords made flowers of their robes. III. Candor (to Akaeus) Comes now, comes now Cecilia If you cared for the good and the beautiful to stop your ears with music. and your tongue were not hiding evil, shame would not harbor in your eyes. II. Your would speak out your real desire. For all the bold shivers of your strings, all the tumult of your pipes, IV. Light Vanishing It is only you I hear. The moon has gone down, Your soft dark wings, the shadow of your gone down the Pleiadcs. wings comfort me. Night is half-gone, Oh Lord who sings in my heart when I and life speeds by. come to you 8 I will carry you no tears in my hands. And see how my bones are brightening, I sing of you, you in my heart, and see how my blood is rising. for you these garlands bloom, these Praised be the light that grows upon the dancers dance. walls, here where the weather flames For you the giddy flowers of your dance. beyond my reach, here where the hot salt Your peace be with me now. purifies my eyes. I hear his voice, his feathered words of love and I find my life in Him. III. She finds her life in whom? My sweet grey dove, among the trees there are such swellings. I am Cecilia, daughter of Rome ... All the throats of the dark leaves are And see how the rain seeps through the singing, my sweet grey dove.