NEWS SECTION NEWS SECTION Quartet (see also BENOLIEL). Ferneyhough was Guest Professor of Composition at the Royal Conservatoire in Stockholm in Novem- Composers ber. He is working on a chamber synphony commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and a DAVID BEDFORD. Fridiof Kennings (prem- work for clarinet and digital computer com- iere)—10 December j Purcell Room / Myrha missioned by IRCAM. Saxophone Quartet. MICHAEL FINN1SSY. Sir Tristran (premiere) GEORGE BENJAMIN. Duo for cello and — IJ December / St. John's Smith Square / piano (premiere)—$ November / Carnegie Penelope Walmsley-Clark, Circle c. Gregory Hall, New York / Ross Pople, George Ben- Rose. Moon's goin down (premiere)—13 jamin; (U.K. premiere)—14 November / St. November / October Gallery / Fresh Ear. John's Smith Square / Pople, Benjamin. Flight for solo flute (U.K. premiere)—9 JOHN FOULDS (d.1939). Quartetto Intimo January 1981 / Wigmore Hall / Kate Lucas. (London premiere)—4 November / Wigmore Hall I Endellion Quartet. Temple Chant (prem- RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT. Harpsi- iere)—17 October / Manchester, RNCM / chord Concerto (premiere)—4 December / Ensemble c. Timothy Reynish. St. Louis, Missouri / Igor Kipnis, St. Louis SO c. Leonard Slatkin. Puer Nobis (premiere)— HANS WERNER HENZE. Pollicino (U.K. 21 December j Haddo House, Aberdeen / premiere)—16 December / Jeanetta Cochrane Haddo House Choral and Operatic Society c. Theatre / Royal Opera c. David Syrus. June Gordon. ROBIN HOLLOWAY. Ode (U.S. premiere)— BERNARD BENOLIEL. String Quartet 6 November / Worcester, Mass. / English (premiere)—4 January 1981/ BBC recording / Chamber Orchestra. Serenade in C (U.S. Arditti Quartet (see also FERNEYHOUGH). premiere)—26 October / New York / Music Projects. Hollo way has completed an Idyll LUCIANO BERIO. // ritorno degli Snovidenia for small orchestra, commissioned by the (U.K. premiere)—12 November / Royal Northern Sinfonia. College of Music / Rohan de Saram, BBC Symphony Orchestra c. Nicholas Cleobury. OLIVER KNUSSEN. Where the Wild Things LEONARD BERNSTEIN. Divertimento (prem- are (premiere)—28 November j Brussels iere)—2j September / Boston / Boston SO c. Opera. Seiji Ozawa. A Musical Toast (premiere)—11 October / New York / New York PO c. GYORGY KURTAG. Messages (premiere)— Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein has been com- 14 December / Paris j Ensemble InterCon- missioned to write a piano piece for the 1981 temporain; (U.K. premiere)—18 February Van Cliburn Competition, and is composing a 1981 / Royal College of Music / BBC Sym- work for flute, strings and percussion entitled phony Orchestra c. Ronald Zollmann. Omaggio Halil. a Nono (premiere)—3 February j Queen Elizabeth Hall / BBC Singers c. John Poole. JOHN CAGE. Hymns and Variations for 12 amplified voices (U.K. premiere)—1 October/ WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI. Double Concerto Queen Elizabeth Hall / Sinfonietta Voices c. (U.K. premiere)—19 November / Royal William Brooks. Festival Hall / Heinz & Ursula Holliger, BBC Symphony Orchestra c. the composer. CORNELIUS CARDEW. New work for 2 pianos (premiere)—13 March 1981 / Wigmore ELIZABETH LUTYENS. String Quartet, op. Hall / Susan Bradshaw, John Tilbury. 139 (premiere)—9 November / Edinburgh, Old Royal High School / Edinburgh Quartet. JACOB DRUCKMAN. Animus IV (U.K. premiere)—29 October / Royal College of NICHOLAS MAW. The Ruin (London prem- Music j London Sinfonietta c. Richard Pittman iere)— IJ January 1981 / St. John's Smith Square / BBC Singers c. John Poole. BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH. String Quartet No. 2 (premiere)—2 October / Venice Bien- PETER MAXWELL DAVIES. Solstice of Light nale / Arditti Quartet; (U.K. premiere)—4 (London premiere)—3 February 1981 / January 1981 / BBC recording j Arditti Queen Elizabeth Hall / BBC Singers c. John Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.40, on 01 Oct 2021 at 11:53:17, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200031673 TEMPO Poole. Symphony No. 2 (premiere)—26 Feb- TONA SCHERCHEN-HSIAO. Oeil de chat ruary 1981 / Boston SO c. Seiji Ozawa. (premiere of complete work)—j November j Berlin / Berlin Radio SO c. Gilbert Amy. DOMINIC MULDOWNEY. 6 Psalms (prem- iere)—6 December J West Sussex Philhar- HOWARD SKEMPTON. Giancarlo Cardini monic Choir. introduced Skempton's entire oeuvre for piano in the course of a recital at the 6th ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK. Paean (premiere)— Bolzano Festival of Contemporary Music on 18 November / Royal Albert Hall / Royal 23 September. Military School of Music, Kneller Hall. String Quartet No. 1 (premiere of new version) IGOR STRAVINSKY (d.i97I). Les Noces —7 November / Wigmore Hall / Locrian (U.K. premieres of first and second versions) Quartet. Concertino for percussion —30 January 1981 / Royal Festival Hall j (premiere)—24 January 1981 / Fairfield Hall Palmer, Murray, Langridge, Tomlinson, Lon- J LSO c. Andre Previn; (U.S. premiere)— don Sinfonietta c. David Atherton. 6 February 1981 / Pittsburgh / Pittsburgh SO c. Andre Previn. GILES SWAYNE. Cry (concert premiere)—9 October / St. John's Smith Square / BBC GOFFREDO PETRASSI. Grand Septuor (U.K. Singers c. John Poole. premiere)—j February 1981/ Wigmore Hall / Lontano. JOHN TAVENER. Valin for piano (premiere) —13 March 1981 / Wigmore Hall / Annette FREDERIC RZEWSKI. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Servadei. Blues (premiere of version for 2 pianos)—12 October j Round House j Ursula Oppens, Frederic Rzewski. Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited TONA SCHERCHEN HSIAO L6 for trombone and strings World premiere: 9 April, St. Paul, Minnesota— William McGlaughlin / St. Paul Chamber Orchestra c. Dennis Russell Davies European premiere: 4 June, Middelburg—Vinko Globokar / Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra c. Ernest Bour British premiere: 7 October, Queen Elizabeth Hall—Roger Williams / Music Projects c. Richard Bernas German premiere: 19 October, Donaueschingen—Vinko Globokar / Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra c. Ernest Bour Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.40, on 01 Oct 2021 at 11:53:17, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200031673.