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David Evan Thomas Updates

admin_ecspubli — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:20:05 +0000

David Evan Thomas spent two weeks in March 2012 at the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, a new residency program in the Medicine Bow Mts. of Southern Wyoming.
The Debussy Trio performed In the blue glen at the 11th World Harp Congress in Vancouver, and in West Virginia as part of an Encore grant from the American Composers Forum.
The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet will record Thrum, a work it commissioned in 2001, in July.
Current project: The First Apostle, an oratorio for soloists, choruses and chamber orchestra commissioned by Grace Song of Houston, to be premiered in November, 2012.

News from Su Lian Tan

admin_ecspubli — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:32:12 +0000

Carol Wincenc and Su Lian Tan right after she recorded Tan’s Autumn Lute-Song at the WGBH studios in Boston. Evan Bennett conducted Wincenc and the Juventas Ensemble.

This completes CD of new flute music that Su Lian Tan has recorded. The program includes works by Peter Hamlin, Mary Koppel, John McDonald and Matt LaRocca.

Don Berman pianist, Brenda Patterson mezzo-soprano, Jamaica Kincaid author, Darrett Adkins cellist and David Bowlin violinist, at Claremont University, after a performance of Su Lian Tan’s Jamaica’s Songs. October 2011. Jamaica’s Songs is included in the CD, Music by Su Lian Tan, ARSIS Audio.

Joelle Wallach News

admin_ecspubli — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:04:39 +0000

Dallas Symphony Lectures by Joelle Wallach Precede Performances of Music of Grieg and Sibelius on April 12, 13, 14 and 15

Composer Joelle Wallach will be giving Dallas Symphony Performance Preludes pre-concert lectures in Horchow Hall, on the lower level of Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora Street in Dallas, Texas on Thursday, April 12 at 7:00 PM, Friday, April 13 at 6:30 PM, Saturday, April 14 at 7:00 PM and Sunday, April 15 at 1:30 PM.

The subject of these lectures will be Grieg and Sibelius, Depression, Isolation, Addiction and Creativity. They will precede performances of Grieg’s Lyric Suite and Piano Concerto, with soloist Andre Watts and Sibelius’ Rakastava and Symphony No. 7. The performances will be conducted by James Gaffigan.

For tickets and more information, call The Dallas Symphony at 214-692-0203 or visit https://www.dallassymphony.com/.

More about Ms. Wallach’s upcoming speaking engagements with the New York Philharmonic and Dallas Symphony in future issues of The Dream of Now.

Stanley Hoffman News

admin_ecspubli — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:47:00 +0000

Variant on “Battle Cry of Freedom,” a work by Stanley M. Hoffman which was submitted to the Composer’s Voice concert series call for scores: Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: West Point Woodwind Quintet, was chosen for performance along with fourteen other submissions they received from around the globe. The Composer’s Voice concert series is a free series in which no performers are paid.

The performance will take place on the Composer’s Voice Concert, April 29, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, New York City. This concert is free and open to the public. The concert organizers strongly encourage audience members to bring donations of food, clothing, and toiletries for the Homeless Outreach & Advocacy Program (HOAP).
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50 WORD PROGRAM NOTES:

I chose the tune “Battle Cry of Freedom” by George Root as the basis for this composition because, not only is it of the Civil War era, but it is also included in the song “They Are There” by Charles Ives, to whom I pay homage with an alternative ending.

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Stanley Hoffman’s unpublished composition Meditations and Memories for two alto flutes will be performed at the National Flute Association Convention, August, 2012, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Christine Potter <www.altoflute.net> and Peter Sheridan <www.lowflutes.com>. Information about the convention may be found at <www.nfaonline.org/Annual-Convention

Stanley Hoffman’s currently unpublished unaccompanied SATB and TTBB arrangements of Vocalise by Sergei Rachmaninoff will receive world premiere performances by the National Lutheran Choir and Cantus in concert on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 7:30 pm in King of Kings Lutheran Church, 1583 Radio Drive, Woodbury, MN 55125, and on Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 4:00 pm in Normandale Lutheran Church, 6100 Normandale Road, Edina, MN 55436. For more information, please visit www.nlca.com/2012may and www.cantussings.org.

News from Daron Hagen

admin_ecspubli — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:41:16 +0000

A busy season for Daron Hagen: AMELIA, premiered last year by Seattle Opera, is revived this year by the Moores Opera Center in Houston and the Chicago College of the Performing Arts in association with Chicago Opera Theater, in the Spring. NEW YORK STORIES, his three one-act operas, were performed at CCPA in the Fall, and given a new fully-staged production at the Butler Opera Center at the University of Texas Austin. VERA OF LAS VEGAS is receiving its West Coast premiere starring countertenor Brian Asawa by West Edge Opera in Berkeley this summer. FIVE SKY INTERLUDES is premiered by the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz in the spring, and a new opera with libretto by J.D. McClatchy, is premiered in November by Sarasota Opera.

Stephen Chatman Performance

admin_ecspubli — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:51:56 +0000

Imagined Worlds: Intertwined
With special guests Laudate Singers
Saturday March 31, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Norman Rothstein Theatre (950 West 41st Ave., Vancouver)
Tickets ($28/$18) & information: www.vi-co.org or 778-881-5499
Rothstein reception desk in person or at 604-257-5111

The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra brings its 10th anniversary season to a triumphant close with a concert featuring the 25-member ensemble and chamber choir Laudate Singers, premiering major new works commissioned by the VICO from Dutch composer Joël Bons and renowned Canadian composer Dr. Stephen Chatman. The programme will also include a new Canada Council commission by Coat Cooke for intercultural orchestra, and Moshe Denburg’s El Ginat Egoz for choir, erhu, zheng and marimba. Also on the program are works featuring two world famous virtuosi – Guilian Liu will perform a pipa (Chinese lute) solo work, and Hossein Behroozinia, on barbat (Iranian lute), will lead an Iranian sextet.

Bons, Chatman and Cooke have worked closely with the VICO to create their new pieces, in a ground-breaking commissioning and development project funded by Arts Partners in Creative Development. The result is fusion music on a grand scale… with Imagined Worlds: Intertwined, the VICO presents an ensemble of 50 musicians, performing a programme of intercultural music that truly reflects the diversity, virtuosity and global scope of the artistic community in which it was created.

“…music that sounds like Vancouver looks.” – The Georgia Straight

“…the United Nations of music…” – CBC Radio

Visit the VICO on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/VancouverInterCulturalOrchestra

Judith Shatin News

admin_ecspubli — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:30:00 +0000

This spring will see performances of Judith Shatin’s music in multiple genres. Her Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi has been on tour with pianist Mary Kathleen Ernst, who will perform it again on May 6 at the Crocker Art Museum Concert Series in Sacramento, CA. In addition, Shatin, who is in residence with the Deering Estate Chamber Ensemble at the Deering Estate at Cutler in Miami, will have several of her pieces (Run, for piano quartet; Doxa for vla/pno; and A Little Water Music, for electronics) presented by the Ensemble on the Cutting Edge Series at the Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space in New York on April 9. Her piano trio View from Mt. Nebo will be performed by The Connecticut Trio at the New Britain Art Museum on April 15. Her choral music will also be heard with upcoming performances by The Washington Men’s Camerata of The Jabberwocky on their June 2 concert at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre in Washington DC., while on June 3 the Wisconsin Chamber Choir will give the world premiere of The God of Glory, her SATB setting of verses 3-11 of Psalm 29. For a full listing of events and times, see www.judithshatin.com

The Jabberwocky will be performed by the Washington Men’s Camerata at the Terrace Theatre of the Kennedy Center on Saturday, June 2, at 7:30 p.m. Aksim the world premiere of ‘The God of Glory’ for SATB will be presented by The Wisconsin Chamber Choir,conducted by Robert Gehrenbeck on June 3 at the First United Methodist Church in Madison Wisconsin, at 3:00 p.m.

Judith Zaimont Works on CD

admin_ecspubli — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:36:10 +0000

Included on 2 new CDs is one of Judith Zaimont’s ECS publications, Nocturne – La Fin de Siecle for piano solo.

Elizabeth Moak includes it on the MSR Classics 2 Cd album surveying my piano music through the years.
“Art Fire Soul: Piano Music of Judith Lang Zaimont” released at the beginning of March.

Christopher Atzinger includes it on his about-to-be issued Naxos CD, “Judith Lang Zaimont: 3 works for Piano Solo”.

More about these discs at Amazon.com.

Derek Healey Performances

admin_ecspubli — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:37:46 +0000

Upcoming performances of the works of ECS composer Derek Healey:

“The Coast of Oregon: The Quest for Aztlan” – (a dramatic monologue, using the text by Norman Newton)
To be premiered by Nancy Wood (soprano), Paul Safar (piano), Dawn Weiss (flute), Diane Chaplin (cello), Florian Canzetti (percussion), conducted by Keith Clark, at the Cherry Blossom Musical Arts ‘Visual Music 2012’ concert at Bodyvox, 1201 NW 17th Avenue, Portland, Oregon on March 29th, 2012 at 8:00pm.
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“Antiphon: The Wild Echoes” for 2 alto saxophones
To be performed by the Duonita Duo — Claudia Schaetzle and Volker Ax, during the “Nacht der erleuchteten Kirche” during a Laser Show at Stadtkirche, Eibenstock on April 21st, 2012 at 8:00pm.
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“Dance, mon moin’, Danse” for chorus & piano (ad lib) from Six Canadian Folk Songs: Set 1
To be performed by the Salt Spring Singers, directed by Mitch Howard in Salt Spring Island, BC on May 12th & 13th, 2012
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Selections from “Six Canadian Folk Songs: Set 1” for chorus and piano (optional)
To be performed by “Avanti Chamber Singers”, Harris Loewen conductor as part of “Viva Voce Choral Series“, during the “There is Sweet Music Here” concert at St. Barnabas Anglican Church, St. Catherines, Ontario on April 28th , 2012 at 7:30pm.
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“Missa Brevis: Santa Cecilia” for choir with optional organ
To be premiered by the “Polifonica Santa Cecilia”, directed by Gabriele Verdinelli, in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, date and venue to be announced (between June 5th and 8th, 2012).
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“A Maiden Mild” & “Christmas Hath a Darkness” for choir and harp (Published by ECS)
To be performed as part of The Traditional Christmas Concert by “The Winkleigh Singers”; Emma Spandrzyk, harp; Roland Smith, director; at Winkleigh Parish Church, Winkleigh, Devon, England, on December 15th, 2012.

David Conte Spring Performances

admin_ecspubli — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:25:44 +0000

Spring performances of ECS composer David Conte:

Sat, February 4th, 2012; 8PM
San Francisco Premiere of “The Nine Muses” for chorus, 2 pianos, and percussion
Sanford Dole Ensemble
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
http://www.sde.org/performances

Wed., February 15th, 2012; 8PM
World premiere: “I Dream A World” for Chorus and String Orchestra
Commissioned for the centennial of the city of Shaker Heights, OH
Shaker Heights High School Chorus and Orchestra
Robert Schneider and Donna Jelen, music directors

Friday, March 2nd, 2012; 8PM
San Francisco – St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Sat., March 3rd, 2012; 8PM Mill Valley – Mt. Tamalpais Methodist Church
Sun,, March 4th 2012; 4PM Berkeley – David Brower Center
“The Homecoming” for mixed chorus
Volti; Robert Geary, conductor
http://www.voltisf.org/

Sunday, March 4th, 2012
“Firebird Motel” – an opera in one act
Hot Air Music Festival
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Elliott Encarnacion, conductor; Gabrielle Traub, stage director

Sun, March 18th, 4:30PM
First Unitarian Church, Geary and Franklin, SF
“Sextet” for Clarinet, String Quartet and Piano (World Premiere)
“Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, mvt. I”
Brenden Guy, clarinet; Miles Graber, piano

Saturday, March 17th, 7:30PM
Campbell United Methodist Church, San Jose
“Invocation and Dance” for Chorus, piano four-hands, and perc.
San Jose State Chorus; Jeffrey Benson, conductor
https://www.facebook.com/SJSUChoir

Sun, March 25th, 2012; 4PM
“In Praise of Music” for SSAA chorus and piano
San Francisco Girls Chorus; Susan McMane, conductor
Calvary Presbyterian Church; 2515 Fillmore St., San Francisco
http://www.sfgirlschorus.org/current_sfgc_season

Friday, April 20th, 2012; 8PM
World Premiere: “O Setting Sun” for a cappella chorus
Madison Chamber Choir; Anthony Cao, conductor
First United Methodist Church; 203 Wisconsin Ave; Madison WI

http://www.madisonchamberchoir.com/

Sat, Sun, Mon, April 27th, 28th, 29th, 2012
World Premiere: “Songs of Love and War” for TTBB Chorus and Piano four-hands
Golden Gate Men’s Chorus; Joseph Piazza, conductor
http://www.ggmc.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&view=categoriesdetailed&Itemid=54

Sun, May 27th, 2012
World Premiere: “Facing West” for a cappella chorus
Commissioned for the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge
International Orange Chorale; Zane Fiala, conductor

http://www.iocsf.org/

Sat, June 2nd, 8:00PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
“Fantasy for Orchestra” (Bay Area premiere)
Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Daniel Canosa, conductor
http://bars-sf.org/1772/bars-2012-pride-month-concert™-june-2-2012-8pm/