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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • Publications: An Old-Fashioned Waltz, The Fiddler's Fare. A Xmas Tango (song for treble voice/pno.). Something Special (A barbershopera for LTBB), combined music and libretto. The La La Song (Tenor voice/pno. or guitar). Psalm 95 (SATB/ Congregation/org/instruments). The Blue Cowboy (Tenor voice/piano or guitar). EMMA LOU DIEMER NEWS: Judge/Evaluator for the State Contest of the Composers Today, Music Teachers Assoc. of CA. 2012. Judge for the Sorel Medallion in Choral Music, NYC, 2011. Interview and critique in Santa Barbara with Amanda Setlik regarding diemer her doctoral dissertation and lecture recital at University of Colorado, Boulder, on ELD's piano music, fall of 2011. Santa Barbara Overture will be the opening work of the season by the Santa Barbara Symphony, Nir Kabaretti, conductor. Oct. 20-21, 2012. PREMIERES: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Philip Ficsor and the Westmont College Orchestra, Michael Shasberger, conductor. Montecito, CA, (Titles: A Little Parlour Music, Remembrance of Things Past, Santa Barbara Rag), October, 2012. Trio for Trumpet, Trombone, and Piano ("The Answered Question"). Amy and Dan Cherry, International Women's Brass Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, June, 2012. Cantate Domino for youth choir, organ, piano, saxophone, guitar, T. Andrew Hicks, conductor, Trinity Episcopal Church, Iowa City, Iowa, May, 2012. RECENT PERFORMANCES: Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano ("Summer Day"). Charles Yassky, clarinet, Evelyn Estava, violin, Diana Hughes, piano, Third Annual Social Networking Concert curated by Douglas Townsend, St. Peter's Church, NYC, April, 2012. Also, Trio Contraste (Martha MacDonald, William Terwilliger, Andrew Cooperstock), Westlake United Methodist Church, Austin, TX, June, 2011. Homage to Poulenc, Mozart, and MacDowell, Saint Cecilia Trio (Lisa Winter, flute, Peter Kirchner, cello, Natalia Heikes, piano), United Methodist Church, Motley, MN, April, 2012. Songs for the Earth, San Francisco Choral Society and Orchestra, Robert Geary, conductor, Davies Hall, San Francisco, August, 2012. Music for Woodwind Quartet, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Woodwind Quartet, Severance Hall, Cleveland. May, 2012. Four Biblical Sketches, Gail Archer, organist, St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, R. C. Church of St. Agnes, NYC; St. Francis Xavier R. C. Church, NYC; Rutgers Presbyterian Church; Central Synagogue, NYC. January - May 2012. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Two orchestral works published by C. Alan Publications, 2012: St Anne--O God, Our Help in Ages Past, and My Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Battle Hymn). Suite No. 1 for Children for piano and Four on a Row for piano. Certosa Verlag (Germany), 2012. Organ Voluntaries on Saintly Tunes for organ. Augsburg Fortress, 2012. Suite for Harpsichord. 1982. Certosa Verlag (Germany), 2012. Concerto for Trumpet. 1982. Certosa Verlag (Germany), 2012. NEW RECORDINGS: Emma Lou Diemer.: Chamber Music. Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano; Quartet for Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, & Piano; Seven Pieces for Marilyn for Piano. L. Kobayashi, E. Grolman, J. Dixon, L. Anton, S. Woodward, B. Anton, ELD. Albany Records Troy 1302. 2011. Pacific Ridge. Major Works, Emma Lou Diemer. Santa Barbara Overture, Concerto in One Movement for Piano, Concerto in One Movement for Marimba. PARMA Recordings, 2012. JANE ELLEN • NEWS: While continuing to work as a composer and arranger, I present lectures for OASIS, the Osher Lifelong Learning Foundation, and other educational organizations in Albuquerque, NM. This is also my third year serving as director of the OASIS Entertainers, a volunteer choir that performs throughout the community. I was privileged to have several works premiered in 2012, including Enchanted Land, a choral commissioned by the Albuquerque Civic Chorus celebrating 100 years of New Mexico statehood, with a text by Claire Roth. September 7-9 I served as scholar-in-residence at a retreat in Taos, NM sponsored by the Fellowship of the Desert Chavurah, where I gave ellen a presentation entitled Jewish Composers: The Shaping of American Music. In October I received my 23rd consecutive ASCAPlus Award, and am currently working on a commission for accordion duo (a medley of AfricanAmerican spirituals). This year's travels took me to the tri-state area of Missouri, Iowa and Ilinois as well as Northeastern Texas to visit family and friends; in December I attended The Midwest Clinic in Chicago, IL to hear the premiere of Glow, a work commissioned by Claribel, a 32-voice Belgian clarinet choir, under the direction of Guido Six. PREMIERES: Enchanted Land, commissioned to commemorate 100 years of New Mexico Statehood, Albuquerque Civic Chorus, Verallen Kleinhenz, director; SATB/piano, text by Claire Roth; First Christian Church, Albuquerque, NM, May 19, 2012; other performances: Asbury United Methodist Church, Albuquerque, NM, May 20, 2012; Albuquerque Civic Chorus with the Mesilla Valley Chorale, Rio Grande Theatre, Las Cruces, NM, June 16, 2012. Glow, commissioned by Belgian clarinet choir Claribel, Guido Six, director; The Midwest Clinic, McCormick Place West, Chicago, IL, Dec. 21, 2012. Danse des Esprits, Canadian premiere, Debbie Fingas, organ, Royal Canadian College of Organists Recital in Recognition of International Women's Week, St Peter's Church, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, March 11, 2012. The Mystery of the Cold, Wet Nose, 2-act intergenerational play with music, book and lyrics by Linda Bairstow, members of the First Unitarian Church, Lou Ann Graham, director; First Unitarian Church, Albuquerque, NM, April 1415, 2012. PERFORMANCES: Just for the Folk of It, accordion duo, Dan Wright and Dick Steichen, Rio Rancho Presbyterian Church, NM, March 29. 2012. BRIAN FENNELLY NEWS: Brian Fennelly is Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University and codirector of the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, now in its thirty-sixth season of concerts in New York City. He is currently engaged fennelly in writing a chamber concerto for the ensemble mis-en, and he will have a composer residency at the Bogliasco Foundation Liguria Study Center in Italy in 2013. PREMIERES: Kythera Variations (2012), Miranda Cuckson, violin, Taka Kigawa, piano, counter) induction ensemble, TENRI Institute, New York, NY, October 20, 2012. New York premiere: Fantasia Concertante (2009), duo parnas (Madalyn Parnas, violin, Cicely Parnas, cello), Orchestra of the League of Composers, David Dzubay, conductor, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYC, May 7, 2012. PERFORMANCES: Three Pieces for Piano, Zi Liang, piano, New York Composers Circle concert, St. Peter's Church at Citigroup Center, NYC, Oct. 16, 2012. Tango from Tombeau and Tango, New York Consort of Viols, Reisinger Concert Hall, Sarah Lawrence College, Riverdale, NY, Oct. 25, 2011. SUKHI! for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, Lunatics at Large, Symphony Space, Composers Now! Concert, NYC, Feb. 19, 2013. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Kythera Variations (2012) for violin and piano, American Composers Edition (ACA), a series of variations conceived from imagined workings of the ancient antikythera mechanism; Babbittelle (2012) for piano, a short tribute to Milton Babbitt, ACA and Perspectives of New Music Volume 49/2 Supplement: Milton Babbitt: A composers' memorial. NEW RECORDINGS: released August 2012 by Albany Records on TROY 1350, "The Other Side of Time, "includes 5 titles: 'Sigol' for Strings for string orchestra with the Moravian Philharmonic under Joel Eric Suben; Fantasia Concertante for violin, cello, and orchestra with duo parnas and the Indiana University New Music Ensemble under David Dzubay; Tropes and Echoes for clarinet and ensemble with Jean Kopperud, clarinet, and The Washington Square Ensemble under Louis Karchin; Corollary III with Chris Gekker, trumpet, and Rita Sloan, piano; and The Other Side of Time for 30 winds and percussion, with the New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble under Charles Peltz. DR. CRAWFORD GATES • • • NEWS: Dr. Crawford Gates celebrated his 90th birthday with a recital of his music for a crowd of 250. Participants on the recital included Utah Voices (a small select choir), the Cheney Cello Trio, Doris Brunatti, mezzo-contralto, Kelly Parkinson, violin, Joy Robbins, viola, Jared Oaks, piano, Tausha Torrez, soprano, Jim Miller, tenor. Dr. Gates was honored by Utah Governor Gary Herbert on May 16th, 2012, at sai-national.org winter 13 PP.indd 23 WINTER 2013 PAN PIPES 23 2/12/2013 2:15:28 PM