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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • 5, 2012. Minstrels of the Kells, Michigan State University Band, John Madden, conductor, April 24, 2012. Zephyrus for flute and string trio, Monadnock Music Festival, Peterborough, NH, July 8, 2012. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Museon Polemos for two antiphonal string quartets (T. Presser). The Need To See: A Musical Fable for Children (T. Presser) NEW RECORDINGS: A Harvest of 20th Century Bassoon Music", Crystal Records re-issue, CD 341. Welcher: Concerto Da Camera (original version, recorded 1977), Leonard Sharrow, bassoon, Crystal Chamber Orchestra, Ernest Gold, conductor. DAVID ASHLEY WHITE • • • NEWS: In August, 2012, White began his fourteenth year as Director of the Moores School of Music, University of Houston, where he is the Margaret M. Alkek and Margaret Alkek Williams Endowed Chair. In July, 2012, he was reappointed to the board of the Houston Arts Alliance by the Honorable Annise Parker, Mayor of Houston. Also in July, he served on the faculty of the Mississippi Conference of Church Music and Liturgy. PREMIERES: A New Creation, mixed chorus and organ, commissioned by the 2012 Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi Church Music and Liturgy Conference, Gray Conference Center, Canton, MS, July, 2012. Lord Jesus, Make Me Holy, University Singers, Brady Knapp, director, for SAB voices a cappella, commissioned by the University of St. Thomas, Oct., 2012. PERFORMANCES: Drop, drop slow tears, Madrigal/ Chamber Singers of Washington State University, Lori Wiest, director, Nov. 11, 2011. The Amarillo Canticles, mixed chorus & organ, The Choir of All Saints Church, Northampton, England, Solemn Choral Evensong and Benediction, May 27, 2012. Triptych, Calgary Altius, brass, James Picken, organ, James Austin, conductor Hope Lutheran Church, Calgary, Alberta, June 10, 2012. Preces & Responses, mixed chorus a cappella, also, The Amarillo Canticles, The Piedmont Singers from Virginia, in residence, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Church of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Solemn Choral Evensong, July 24, 2012. I saw eternity, To be sung on the water (The Blue Estuaries), mixed chorus a cappella, Houston Chamber Choir, Robert Simpson, conductor, choir's tour of New York and Connecticut, beginning at Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City on April 13, ending at Yale University on April 15, 2012. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Morning Song, attr. Elkanah Kelsey Dare, harm. David Ashley White, published in Psalms for All Seasons, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, 2012. Missa Brevis; mixed chorus a cappella; If Ye Love Me, SAB chorus a cappella; This Is the Record of John, mixed chorus & organ, all October, 2012; *As you set out for Ithaka, mezzo-soprano & piano, on the poem "Ithaka" by C.P. Cavafy, E. C. Schirmer, Boston, MA, May, 2012. Renew Me, O Eternal Light, mixed chorus, flute, and organ, St. James Music Press (The Sewanee Composers Project Series, Vol. 17), February, 2012. Harmonizations/arrangements of three folk melodies, unison voices and keyboard (Bred Dina Vida Vingar, Swedish; Wexford Carol, Irish; and Galloway Tam, Scottish), as well as 31 other hymns from my catalog, in addition to my Mass for a Celebration, Rite II, Episcopal Liturgy, all included in Selah Songs of Rejoicing, 2011, Selah Publishing Co., Pittsburgh, PA, December, 2011; A New Creation, mixed chorus & organ, and Spirit Moving Over Chaos, chorus, oboe, percussion, opt. handbells & keyboard, Selah Publishing Company, Pittsburgh, PA, both July, 2012. RECORDING: Two hymn tunes, Wildridge & St. Charles, Queensbury Terrace and Praise the Spirit, sung by the Palmer Choir, Palmer Memorial Church, Houston, chosen for inclusion on the CD O God, Whom Saints and Angels, a compilation honoring composers in the Association of Anglican Musicians and provided for delegates to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church during its convention in Indianapolis, July, 2012. DONALD REID WOMACK • • NEWS: Highwire Act was released on the CD Geumeul Bumda (Embracing the Zither) by Seyeon Park. Womack was one of 16 composers, performers and scholars invited to participate in a two-week workshop on Korean music hosted by the Gugakwon (National Center for the Traditional Performing Arts) in Seoul. The composer also organized and hosted a two-week festival of new music for pipa, featuring Zürich-based guest performer and pipa virtuoso Yang Jing. In addition to numerous workshops and educational activities, the festival featured three concerts and the world premieres of seven new works. PREMIERES: Sori, Sooyeon Lyuh, haegeum, I-Bei Lin, cello, Donald Womack, janggu, commissioned by Ms. Lyuh, Seoul Arts Center, South Korea. 'Aina, which was commissioned by the flute, clarinet, piano trio Palisades Virtuosi, received its premiere in Honolulu; also, New Jersey. An Enveloping Rain, Yang Jing, pipa, Anna Womack, viola, Lai Yi-Chieh, guzheng, Honolulu Music Festival; also, Elements, for solo pipa; also, Lanai, Hawaii. PERFORMANCES: Tachibana (Sword Flower), Shigeo and Tomoko Tachibana, shakuhachi duo, Tokyo premiere. Highwire Act, for solo gayageum, received multiple performances in Seoul by Jiyoung Yi and, separately, by Seyeon Park. Three Blues, Triple Helix, piano trio, Boston. WEBSITE: donaldwomack.com ROBERT WYKES NEW RECORDINGS: New CD: Flourishes and Hymn for Trombone Quartet, The Trombones of the St Louis Symphony. CONNECTIONS/ Gerry Pagano, St Louis Brass Collective. Film Music News: The classic documentary Monument to the Dream has been re-edited to the original stereo sound track, digitized and made ready to show on the IMAX screen in the theater under the St Louis Arch. The National Archives choose the film John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 for the 6th Annual Charles Guggenheim Tribute Program at the William G. McGowan Theater in Washington, D.C. Sept. 27, 2012. Both music scores are by Robert Wykes. STEPHEN L. YARBROUGH NEWS: Stephen Yarbrough saw the publication of three of his works in 2012: Kenyon Songs, Seven Poems of Jane Kenyon (mezzo, orch), In Memoriam, SSAATTBB and Alleluias for Orchestra were all yarbrough brought to publication by Ars Nova Press. Yarbrough's Julian Trio (pno, vl, vc) was commercially recorded by the Rawlins Trio, and will be available May, 2013. Spring and Summer 2012 saw the completion of two works for string orchestra, Christmas Joys for the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and LyricWood Overture for the LyricWood Orchestra in Mitchell SD. Both works will be premiered later this year. Dr. Yarbrough has recently begun work on a song cycle for tenor Scott Piper at the University of Michigan. Texts for the cycle are selected poems of Missouri poet Jim Thomas. Two of Yarbrough's orchestra works are featured in SDak Tourist Department videos, each highlighting the beauty of South Dakota's land and wildlife. PERFORMANCES: With the Voice of Joy and Praise, Lincoln Civic Orchestra, Lincoln NE. A Little Suite for Strings, USD Chamber Orchestra. Alleluias for Orchestra, South Dakota All-State Orchestra; also South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. Angel's Dances (Orch) used for Welch's Grape Juice TV commercials. NEW PUBLICATIONS: In Memoriam, SSAATTBB; Alleluias for Orchestra; Kenyon Songs, Seven Poems of Jane Kenyon (mezzo, orch): all published by Ars Nova Press. DAVID A. YEAGLEY NEWS: The premiere of David Yeagley's 80-minute movie score to the 1920 silent film by Norbert Miles, Daughter of Dawn, was June 20, 2012, at Oklahoma City's Dead Center Film Festival. The film and score were screened at the Santa Fe Indian Market (New Mexico), in the Santa Fe Native Cinema Showcase, Aug. 8, 2012. Most recently, Daughter of Dawn was seen and heard at the Cameron University Theater, in Lawton, Oklahoma. All screenings have met with unusual success. Dr. Yeagley's symphonic score is received with great enthusiasm. Dr. Yeagley was commissioned by the Oklahoma State Historical Society in 2007. The score was finished in 2008. After a period of financially related dormancy, the sai-national.org winter 13 PP.indd 33 WINTER 2013 PAN PIPES 33 2/12/2013 2:15:47 PM

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