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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • NEW RECORDINGS: From the Mountaintop, Music for Trumpet and Organ, with Vehar's From the Mountaintop, David and Daniel Kuehn, trumpets, Ken Mervine, organ, Fleur de Son Classics, Ltd. ROGER C. VOGEL NEWS: Roger C. Vogel retired from teaching at the University of Georgia in 2012 after serving 36 years on the faculty. He is now Professor Emeritus of Music at UGA, and his contact information remains the same. PREMIERES: Lysistrata, An Opera in One Act (Overture and Three Arias), Overture, Where Are the Women? What Do We Know of War? The Treaty Is Signed, Ellen Ritchey, soprano, chamber orchestra, vogel Steven Eric Hawk, conductor, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Oct. 26, 2011. Soliloquy for Saxophone, Farrell Vernon, sopranino saxophone, Stroede Center for the Arts, Defiance, OH, Nov. 13, 2011. Things Fall Apart, by Odekhiren Amaize, bassbaritone, Angela Jones-Reus, flute, Martha Thomas, piano, Todd Mueller, hand drums, University of Georgia, Athens, Sept. 6, 2012. PERFORMANCES: First Light, by Janice Crews, oboe, Rocío Del Moral, piano, IV Festival Internacional de Sopros, Centro Cultural Justiça Federal, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 18, 2012. Music and The Frog, He Fly…Almost, by Ellen Ritchey, soprano, and Lisa Bartholow, flute, University of Alabama in Huntsville New Music Festival, Feb. 10, 2012. Pas de deux, Lisa Bartholow, flute, Majureen Horgan, trombone, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA, March 22, 2012. Winter Song, Hodgson Singers, Daniel Bara, conductor, University of Georgia, Athens, April 3, 2012. Incantation, Craig Hultgren, cello, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL, Sept. 5, 2012. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Partita for Horn. Lakeland, FL: Howard J. Buss Publications, 2012. Two to Tango for clarinet and horn duo. Lakeland, FL: Howard J. Buss Publications, 2012. Lysistrata, a comic opera in one act. Piano/Vocal and Orchestral Scores. New York: American Composers Edition, 2011. P. KELLACH WADDLE NEWS: P. Kellach Waddle maintains a very busy career as a solo bassist, composer, conductor, orchestral musician, and chamber musician. He has recently begun his 20th season as a member of the Austin Symphony and has been nominated as a possible finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music three times, as well as nominated for State of Texas Musician of The Year three times. His list of waddle works is now approaching 450 (with nearly 3/4 of these published) and his music has been performed over 800 times in 39 states and 11 foreign countries. He is director of PKWproductions and the co-founder of The Sound Bridge Project with both of these series focusing on bringing classical music to non-traditional venues. PREMIERES: A Faulkner Sextet (2 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 Basses), A Synthesis of Music and Literature: Faulkner, Austin, TX, Spring 2013. As I Was Dreaming During the Daytime Lightning, University of Texas at Arlington Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Clifton Evans, conductor, Spring 2013. Two Absurdist Arias On the Subject Of Pastries For Voice and Piano, Thomas B. Dawkins, voice, NYC, Winter 2013. Seven Chamber Works for Double Reeds, Lauryn Gould, flute, Nikki Birdsong, piano, The Composer, bass, Daniel Chrisman, contrabassoon, Thomas B. Dawkins, E.Horn/Oboe/Oboe D' Amore, The Double Reed in Chamber Music ... according to PKW, TX, Nov., 2012. Five Pieces about Coffee, Elaine Martin Barber, harp, Seetha Shivaswamy, flute, Rebecca Haskins, oboe, Thomas B. Dawkins, oboe, The Composer, bass, The Sound Bridge Project Concert, Cherrywood Coffee House, Austin TX , May, 2012, also, Nov., 2012. Two Pieces for Solo Bassist/Speaker/Singer Jessica Valls, bass, University of Texas Bass Day, Sept., 2012, Austin, TX; also, Doug Balliett, bass, NYC, Spring 2013. Two Pieces for Bass and Viola, James Desautels, viola, The Composer, bass, Sound Bridge Project Concert Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf , Austin, TX, July, 2012; also, Sara Driver, viola , Austin, TX, Dec., 2012. I Dreamed About The Passions of the Final Dripping Candle : Sonata In One Movement for Viola and Piano, Sara Driver, viola, Sheryl Stack, piano, Austin TX, Dec., 2012. Six Colors of Amontillado: Sonata in forma di 6 Evocations Doug Balliett, bass, Brad Balliett, bassoon, NYC. WANG AN-MING • • • PREMIERES: Fantasy on Sakura, Yeonjee Sohn, oboe, Elizabeth Lauer, piano, commissioned by Chevy Chase Chapter, 2012 Convention, National League of American Pen Women, April 20, 2012. PERFORMANCES: Longing (from opera Lan Ying), Tung Hsing Choral Society, Lucy Lee Lin, conductor, Thomas wang Wootten High School, Rockville, MD, May 5, 2012. The Mahjong Suite, Stephan Brown, piano, streamed over radio, WOMR, MA, Sept. 4, 2012. RAYMOND WEIDNER NEWS: Raymond Weidner continues as Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church and adjunct instructor of Composition at Lynchburg College, both in Lynchburg, VA. PREMIERES: Christ the Lord is King (two-part mixed choir), First Presbyterian Church, composer conducting; also, A New Commandment (choir, Lindsay Riordan, violin, & organ), Nov., 2012. PERFORMANCES: Te Deum (choir, brass, & organ), Church Music Institute (Dallas, TX), massed choir with ten churches participating in Charlotte, NC with Paul Leddington-Wright, conducting, Oct., 2012. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts, O Gladsome Light, and Savior, Teach Me Day by Day, St. James Press. Christ the Lord is King, Paraclete Press. DAN WELCHER NEWS: Dan Welcher had a fruitful year, capped by his winning of an Arts and Letters Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City in May,2012. Welcher was awarded residencies at both Yaddo welcher (Dec., 2011 - Jan., 2012) and the MacDowell Colony (June - July 2012) to help him propel two large-scale new works into the world. Museon Polemos ("War of the Muses") for two antiphonal string quartets is a 28-minute, three-movement "ballet without dancers," in which two string quartets square off seated opposite each other on the stage. Each quartet maintains its own musical identity and character, with the music proceeding from one side of the stage to the other, and culminating in a "battle of the quartets," followed by an epilogue of harmonious interplay. The work was commissioned by Texas Performing Arts with a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and was premiered Sept. 28, 2012 by the Shanghai Quartet and the Miró Quartet in Austin, Texas. The second work, THE NEED TO SEE: A Musical Fable for Children, was commissioned by Texas A and M University/Kingsville, with a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. This is a 20-minute work, for soprano/narrator, flute/ piccolo, clarinet/alto saxophone, Bb trumpet, Cello, and Percussion. PREMIERES: Museon Polemos ("War of the Muses") for two antiphonal string quartets, Shanghai Quartet, Miró Quartet, Austin, TX, Sept. 28, 2012. The Need To See: A Musical Fable for Children, Texas A & M University, Kingsville faculty soloists, Oct. 30, 2012. PERFORMANCES: Upriver, Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Corporon, Dallas, TX April 22, 2012. Prairie Light: Three Texas Watercolors of Georgia O'Keeffe, Univ. of Northern Iowa Symphony, Rebecca Burkhart, conductor, Feb. 16, 2012. Songs without Words, Crane Wind Ensemble, SUNY Potsdam, Brian Doyle, conductor, NYSSMA Convention, March 32 PAN PIPES WINTER 2013 sai-national.org winter 13 PP.indd 32 2/12/2013 2:15:46 PM

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