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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • (Grand Mesa Music) for string orchestra has been awarded the "Editor's Choice" distinction by J. W. Pepper; to quote their website, "... Holy guacamole!" PREMIERES: BOOM (a musical about several Creation stories), children bernofsky and instrumentalists of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington, IN. Among All Creatures, Daniel Neer, baritone, Alyssa Reit, harp, The Tank, New York City. Heart of Fire, String Orchestra, Lauren Bernofsky, conductor, (The FJH Music Company), Bennett's Mill Middle School, Fayetteville, GA. Wired, String Orchestra, Daniel Schultz, conductor, J. P. Case Middle School, Flemington, NJ. Mooch the Magnificent, Roundabout Opera for Kids, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, IN. Morning Song, Laurie Staring, soprano, Kit Boulding, violin, Helen Ford, cello, Sylvia Plath Symposium 2012, Indiana University Cinema, Bloomington, IN. PERFORMANCES: Trumpet Concerto, David Cooper, trumpet, Caryl Conger, piano, 2012 International Trumpet Guild Conference, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Columbus, GA. The Tiger, Pacific Women's Chorus, Kay Bryant, director, Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Vista, CA. Trio for Brass, Jon Burgess, trumpet, Heather Test, horn, David Begnoche, trombone, Pepsico Recital Hall, Texas Christian University, Decatur, GA. We Wish You a Klezmer Christmas, 7th and 8th Grade Orchestra, Dartmouth Middle School, Dartmouth, MA. Heart of Fire, Chamber Orchestra, Michael Holak, director, Leonia Middle School, Leonia, NJ. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Concerto for Trumpet (trumpet and piano), Balquhidder Music. Heart of Fire (string orchestra); We Wish You a Klezmer Christmas (string orchestra); Twilight Reverie (string orchestra), The FJH Music Co. Western Dreams (string orchestra), Alfred Music Publishing. The Salamander Samba (string orchestra); Stepping Out (string orchestra), Grand Mesa Music Publishing. The Tiger (SATB chorus and piano), Boosey & Hawkes. NEW RECORDINGS: The Castle-Builder and Of Molluscs, Aja Gianola-Norris, Daniel Gianola-Norris, cornet/trumpet, Ed Goldfarb, piano, on Food of Love (Music to My Ears). BETTY BERTAUX • PREMIERES: Dance, two-part treble voices and piano, Boosey & Hawkes, publisher, Fairfax Children's Chorus, Caroline Crocker/Bonny Tynch, conductors, Serena Chin, pianist, Elizabeth Porter Eachus, poet, Annandale Methodist Church, Annandale, Virginia, March, 2012. Tongue Twisters, two/threepart treble voices and piano, Boosey & Hawkes, publisher, Oklahoma Music Educators Association Conference Children's Honor Chorus, Mairee Pantzer, bertaux Conductor, David Hillis, Pianist, Tulsa Convention Center, Tulsa, OK, January, 2013. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Sing Me a Song (Fa una canzone), Vecchi/ed., SSAB, a cappella, Boosey & Hawkes, 48021026. Tongue Twisters, SSA/piano, Boosey & Hawkes, 48022624. Dance", SA/piano, Boosey & Hawkes, available, February, 2013 DANIEL BREWBAKER NEWS: Composing Residencies at The Helen Wurlitzer Foundation, (January-April), Yaddo (November-December). PREMIERES: Listening, Portland Symphonic Girlchoir, Roberta Jackson, conductor, Portland OR, March 17 (Boosey&Hawkes, publisher). String Quartet No. 4, "Love Notes to Napa," Borromeo String Quartet, Music In The Vineyards, Napa Valley, CA, Aug. 5. Dance To The Music, Queens College Orchestra, Conductor's Workshop, Daniel Brewbaker, conductor, CUNY, Queens, NY, July 9-12. How Sweet The Music, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Ron Martin, conductor, Kleinhaus brewbaker Music Hall, Buffalo, NY, Oct. 21. String Quartet No. 3, Maud Powell String Quartet, Blizzard Theater, Elgin, IL, November 4. Salute!, Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Brewbaker, conductor, Hemmens Auditorium, Elgin, IL, Nov. 17-18. My Sweet, Crushed Angel, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Loretta Chapel Santa Fe, NM, Albuquerque, NM, July 24, Aug. 1, 8, 12, (Boosey&Hawkes, publisher). PERFORMANCES: Blue Fire, Russian National Orchestra, Daniel Brewbaker, conductor, Festival del Sole, Napa Valley, CA July 22. Out of the Mist, Above the Real, Jeanne Ruddy Dance company, Philadelphia, PA, May 10-12. if there are any heavens, The Princeton Singers, Steven Sametz, conductor, Princeton, NJ, May 12. My Sweet, Crushed Angel, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Loretta Chapel Santa Fe, Albuquerque, NM, July 24, August 1, 8, 12. i am a little church, Texas Tech Women's Chorale, Carolyn Cruse, conductor, Southwestern Division ACDA, Dallas, Texas, March 3. NEW PUBLICATIONS: String Quartet No. 3; String Quartet No. 4; When I Was The Forest, (Treble Voices and Piano); Great Mother (SATB); Crossing Ohio (SATB); Let Love Go On (SATB); To Know Silence (SATB); all Boosey & Hawkes. Salute! for Symphonic Orchestra. RECORDINGS: Mother, Father, Messages to Myself, Musica Sacra, Kent Tritle; msrcd.com/ catalog/cd/MS1411 ROBERT BOURY • • • PREMIERES: The Raspberry War, children's opera, libretto by Madeleine St. Roman, Music by Robert Boury, by the teenage students, Chotard Institute, Dr. Ann Chotard, director, Pulaski Heights Methodist Church in Hillcrest, Little Rock, AR, April 9, 2013. "A Whisper in the Wind," Ruth Sieber Johnson, Nixon Presidential Library. PERFORMANCES: "The Annunciation," Nativity Songs, Ruth Sieber Johnson, soprano, Eric Wall, piano, Benefit Concert for Hope and Home, First Presbyterian Church, Asheville, NC, Dec. 19, 2011. Ballade for Cello and Piano, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Felice Ferrell, cello, Naoki Hakutani, piano, Jan 23, 2012. Art Songs by Robert boury Boury, including "In a Pine Tree," "A Whisper in the Wind," "Wright Bros.," Ruth Sieber Johnson, soprano, Ann Patrick Green, piano, Orange County Alumnae Chapter, Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, CA, June 3, 2012. Ballade for Trombone and Piano, Michael Underwood, Trombone, Naoki Hakutani, piano, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Sept. 12, 2012. Grandmother Spider, children's opera, Chotard Institute, Kristina Marinova, piano, Pulaski Heights Methodist Church, Hillcrest, Little Rock, AK, Nov. 12, 2012. RECORDINGS: Fading, animation with original music by Robert Boury (Google Warren Criswell, animations), Boury's Dictionary of Angels, Emeritus Recordings, Andy Wen, alto saxophone, on Apparitions (CD), Dec., 2011. CANARY LEE BURTON NEWS: I was asked to write an organ piece for Conrad Cooman at Memorial Church, Harvard, MA, write a piece for Shakahachi flute including a poem by Daniel Soergal of NYC, a composition for two Bb clarinets by Arianna Tieghi in Rovigo, Italy, and the music for the 250th birthday of the Town of Wellfleet multimedia project. My music can be heard on Jango.com, an internet radio station, burton and on internet radio Women of Substance. Internet radio Artsindonesia has my music for airplay also. My sheet music is selling or being downloaded from Musicaneo.com. Most of my music has been installed in the Wellfleet, MA, Library and Fondazione Adkins Chiti:Donne in Musica, Fiuggi Citta, Italy. PREMIERES: Soaring, Laura Balboni Craciun, viola, Suzanne Mueller, cello, 820 Main Gallery, Harwichport, MA, Aug. 8, 2012. PERFORMANCES: Sri Rama, Elinor Zayas, Old Westbury Gardens, Long Island, July 8, 2012; also, 820 Main Gallery, Harwichport, MA, Aug. 8, 2012. Chopin Slept, Cross Island, a Long Island chamber group, Wellfleet Library, Wellfleet, MA, Aug. 7, 2012. PUBLICATIONS: Article in the IAWM Journal NEW RECORDINGS: Mixed Medium (Jazz album) JEANNE ROWLEY BURULL • • PREMIERES: Exercise with Hanon, Sarah Swanson, fl, Susan Udell, piano, Woodwind Musicale, Attic Angels, Madison, WI, May 15, 2012. Quietly, Tender Mercies Giv'n, Ruth Dreher, Erica Araneta, sopranos, Jeanne Rowley Burull, piano, Palm Sunday Program, Norseland, Westby, WI, April 1, 2012. sai-national.org winter 13 PP.indd 19 WINTER 2013 PAN PIPES 19 2/12/2013 2:15:22 PM