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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • Alzheimer's Benefit Concert, United Methodist Church, Los Altos, CA, November, 2012. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Angel Falls for piano, four hands was selected for inclusion in Hal Leonard's new Piano Recital Showcase - Duet Favorites. Listening to Your Creative Voice, Parts 2, 3, 4, The California Music Teacher, Vol.35-2, 3, Vol. 36-1. JAMES COHN • • • NEWS: I'm pleased to say that I am still healthy as I approach my 85th birthday, and I am still very involved with composing. I have had many performances of my chamber music, more than can be listed in Pan Pipes, and I'm still hoping for more orchestral performances. In 2011, I turned my attention to writing a musical comedy, based on a fable or fairy-tale I had read when I was a youngster and always remembered. I called it KATrina – The Enchanted Cat. I wrote all of the music and lyrics for 20 songs in 2011. I'm pleased to say that KATrina was premiered on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, presented by the TheatreBy-The-Bay Theatre Group in Bayside, NY. I'm also looking forward to December, 2012, when I will travel to Chicago, Il. For the premiere of The Tailor Variations by the 30-piece clarinet choir – Claribel, conducted by Maestro Guido Six. in cohn addition, Maestro Six will perform The Little Circus which he arranged from my orchestral work. PREMIERES: Little Polka for Wind Quintet, Quintet of the Americas, Queens Botanical Gardens, June 26, 2011 NY Premiere: Sonata for Oboe & Piano, Amadi Azikiwe, oboe, Lori Piitz, piano, Douglaston Concert Series, Douglaston Community Church, Douglaston, NY, Oct. 2, 2011. NY Premiere: Piano Trio #2, Eric Grossman, violin, Gerald Kagan, cello, Susan Kagan, piano, Lincoln Center Library, New York City, Dec. 3, 2011. Suite for Violin & Guitar, Romulo Benavides, violin, David Galvez, guitar, Latin American Cultural Center Auditorium, Corona, NY, June 24, 2012. 20 Songs from KATrina, The Enchanted Cat (Musical Comedy), Lawrence Bloom, director, Theatre-By-The-Bay, Bayside, NY, Aug. 19, 2012. PERFORMANCES: 3 BonBons & The Empty Platter, texts by Ogden Nash, N.Y. Treble Singers, Little Church Around the Corner, April 26,2011. 3 Pieces for Clarinet Alone, Joel Rosen, clarinet, NYC, Nov. 6, 2011. Trio Con Brio for Clarinet, Violin & Piano Joel Rosen, clarinet, Dec. 17, 2011. Strutting Butterflies & the Goldfinch Variations, Quintet of the Americas, Queens Botanical Gardens, Flushing, NY, June 17, 2012. Setting of the 23rd Psalm for Soprano & Piano, Yolanda F. Johnson, soprano, Warner Library, Tarrytown, NY, Sept. 22, 2012. COMMISSIONS: The Tailor Variations, commissioned by Maestro Guido Six for the Claribel Clarinet Choir, Midwest Clarinet Conference, Chicago, IL, Dec, 19, 2012. Suite for Violin & Guitar, David Galvez, violin, Romulo Benavides, guitar. New opera based on a drama by Lawrence F. Bloom, based on the book by Itzhak Gurion, work in progress. NEW RECORDINGS: The Grecian Festival & Other Chamber Music, MSR Music Classics, Nov. 2011. Symphonies #3, #4 & 8, & Other Works, MSR Music Classics , March, 2012 WEBSITE: jamescohnmusic.com NANCY HILL COBB • NEWS: Nancy Hill Cobb was the first place winner of the 2011 Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition Contest. A retrospective recital of her compositions, works written between 1984 and 2011, was held on the campus of Indiana State University on Oct. cobb 5, 2011. PREMIERES: Christ the Lord is Risen Today, Central Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Choir, Terre Haute, IN, Mark Carlisle, Director, SATB with Organ and Brass, April, 24, 2011. When Music Sounds, North Dakota State University Concert Choir, Fargo, ND, Jo Ann Miller, Conductor, SSAATTBB, Oct. 2, 2011. Three Psalms, David Mannell, tenor, Kurt Fowler, cello, Martha Krasnican, piano, University Hall, Indiana State University, Oct. 5, 2011. Invictus, Ohio State University Men's Glee Club, Columbus, OH, Robert Ward, Conductor, TTBB with piano, Feb. 18, 2011. PERFORMANCES: Magnificat, Indianapolis Children's Choir, Henry Leck, Conductor, Indiana Music Educators Association Winter Conference, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Jan. 21, 2011. Sonata for Viola and Piano, Logan Strawn, Viola, Martha Krasnican, piano, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, Oct. 5, 2011. Laudate Dominum, Voces Novae, Frank A. Heller, III, Conductor, Louisville, KY. Three Songs on the Death of a Friend, Colleen Davis, soprano and Martha Krasnican, piano, Oct. 28, 2011. Opacity and Translucence, Brian Kilp, horn and Martha Krasnican, piano, Oct. 5, 2011. LINDA ROBBINS COLEMAN • • • • • NEWS: SAI Member Laureate Linda Robbins Coleman spent much of the 2011-12 season adjudicating entries for the SAI Inter American Music Awards competition, composing the piano quintet Images Dangereuses, and writing/delivering a keynote speech for the SAI National Convention. She wishes to thank everyone at SAI for a most memorable and marvelous experience. Additionally she edited William S. E. Coleman's brilliant comedy, "Buffalo Bill To The Rescue!" and served as assistant director and stage manager for its performance by the StageWest Theatre Company in March. Coleman also spent eight months organizing, chairing the committee, and hosting the "Coleman Cast Party" for more than 100 people at the Drake University All-Theatre Reunion in September. If that were not enough, she worked on the first Drake Marching Band Reunion honoring coleman Emeritus Professor Don Marcouiller in October. Her music is licensed through BMI, Inc. and continues to be widely performed and broadcast throughout North America and Europe. PREMIERES: Images Dangereuses Sigma Alpha Iota String Quartet (Judy Tumlinson, Mari Haig, Bridget Bow, Joan Kennedy, with Ann Patrick Green, piano, Sigma Alpha Iota National Convention InterAmerican Music Awards concert, Sigma Alpha Iota National Convention Inter-American Music Awards concert, Aug. 3, 2012. PERFORMANCES: Hibernia Suite, Women in Music–Columbus (OH), Huntington Hall, Capital University, Oct. 9, 2011. Lunatics and Lovers, an Overture and Bacchanalia, Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra, Texas, Brendan Townsend, music director, Nov. 21, 2011. For A Beautiful Land, Symphonic Poem, Chamber Orchestra of Laredo, Brendan Townsend, conductor, Dec. 3, 2011. Overture to In Good King Charles's Golden Days, Binghamton (NY) Philharmonic, Jose-Luis Novo, music director, May 12, 2012. The Late Night Café, piano quartet, Iowa Composers Forum 25th Anniversary Festival, Orchestra Iowa Opus Café, opening concert. NEW PUBLICATIONS: For A Beautiful Land, a symphonic poem, now available in two editions: original chamber orchestra edition (Beethoven V instrumentation, plus one percussionist), and expanded full orchestra edition including brass and harp. Composer edition of Images Dangereuses [also to be published by C.F. Peters], piano quintet, as well as piano quartet, The Late Night Café. A complete list of orchestra, chamber, and solo publications by Linda Robbins Coleman can be viewed at the web site lindarobbinscoleman.com/. All music and recordings are available through Coleman Creative Services. NEW RECORDINGS: In March, TechnoBabe Reordings, released Rags To Riches, a CD of chamber and solo works including Rag-O-Nata (a triology of piano rags), Concertino Mediterraneo, Hibernia Suite, and The Late Night Café featuring various artists, May, 2011. All music and recordings are available through Coleman Creative Services. WEBSITE: lindarobbinscoleman.com MARK ANDREW COOK • • PREMIERES: Sonata No. 1 for Piano (The Changeling), Society of Composers National Conference (2012), Jason Solounias, Piano. Epithalamium for Organ, Mark King, Organist, St John's Episcopal Church, Hagerstown, MD, 2012. Waking for Soprano and Piano, on poems of Ron Rash, Lawren Diana Hill, soprano, Robert Scott Beard, piano, WVMTA Conference (WVMTA Commissioned Composer for 2012), Oct. 25/12; also Manhattan School of Music, NYC, 5/5/13. Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Nicholas Corasaniti, trumpet, Simone Sarno, piano, Alba Music Festival, Alba, Italy, May 22, 2012; also, Mvt I, Alba, Italy, April 12. Castrophenia, The Mike Kamuf Little Big Band, Mark Cook, Piano, Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival (2012), DVD 2013 PERFORMANCES: A Jazz Christmas in Washington, Dave Detwiler Group, Mark Cook, piano, Blues Alley, Washington, DC, Dec. 23/12. The Mike Kamuf Little Big Band, Mark Cook, Piano, Blues Alley, Washington DC, April 18, 2013. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Foundations of Music sai-national.org winter 13 PP.indd 21 WINTER 2013 PAN PIPES 21 2/12/2013 2:15:24 PM

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