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rd The annual AMERICAN COMPOERS UPDATE Compiled by Susan Cohn Lackman, Composers Bureau Director H. LESLIE ADAMS PERFORMANCES: New Instrumental Works: Poem of Love for Bassoon and Piano, Romance in D-Flat for English Horn and Piano, from Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, and L'Extase d'Amour for viola and ADAMS piano. (Narrated by composer) Cleveland Public Library Main, OH, Feb. 2011. The Music of H. Leslie Adams: The composer shares his life and works, Audio representations include works for solo voice, choral, chamber and orchestral. Kulas Hall, Oberlin College Conservatory, Oberlin, OH, May 2011. Offering of Love and Prelude and Fugue, Linda Gardner, organist, Grace Presbyterian Church, Lakewood, OH, Oct. 2011. Hymn to Freedom for soprano, tenor, baritone, chamber orchestra; African American Art Song Alliance Festival; University of California, Irvine, Feb. 2012. WEBSITE: hleslieadams.com SAMUEL ADLER • • • PREMIERES: In Memory of Milton, Michelle Ross, violin, Juilliard School of Music, April 2011. PUBLICATIONS: A Bonnie Tune (2011), Flute solo, commissioned to celebrate Bonnita Boyd's 35th Anniversary at the Eastman School of Music. In Memory of Milton (2011), Violin solo, Theodore Presser, 2011. WEBSITE: samueladler.com ROGER AMES • • • NEWS: Roger Ames' Holocaust oratorio, Remember Warsaw is in the planning stages for a NYC area tour for 2012-2013, featuring the Oratorio Society of Minnesota with professional singers from NYC, conducted by Matthew Mehaney of Minneapolis. His full-length musical, How Green Was My Valley, is in development with the assistance of Mark Lamos, opera director and artistic director of the Westport Playhouse. The Wife of Martin Guerre, another fulllength musical originally premiered at the Hartford Stage, is in further development by the O'Neill National Music Workshop and Bill Fennelly, director. PREMIERES: Remember Warsaw, (full-length oratorio), Oratorio Society of Minnesota, Matthew Mahaney, conductor, Bradley Greenwald, soloist, May11. Penrose, A Colorado Legacy, (oneact opera), Central City Opera and Colorado Springs Conservatory Summer Intensive, Jeffrey Gilden, librettist, Linda Weise, artistic director, July 2011. PERFORMANCES: En Mis Palabras, (one-act opera) Central City Opera. ames Choral Reflections On Amazing Grace (various, several Allstate Choirs), April 2012. Trilogy: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Minnesota Choral Festival, April 2012. Love's Gift, (choral octavo) Williamson Singers of Westminster Choir College, Dr. James Jordan, conductor (on tour), Spring 2012. PUBLICATIONS: "Music! Words! Opera!" Hansel and Gretel; "Music! Words! Opera!" Aida; "Music! Words! Opera!" Create Your Own Opera (all three teacher textbooks published by GIA Publications, Chicago) WEBSITE: amc.net/RogerAmes AYALA ASHEROV-KALUS NEWS: Ayala Asherov-Kalus now resides in Charleston, SC. Her film score for Carolina Stories: The Baruchs of Hobcaw, first heard on SCETV, Nov. 2011; she is developing the score for small chamber ensemble. Asherov-Kalus has finished a quartet for violin, viola, cello, and piano and is working on a song cycle, The Children of Terezin, written for mezzo-soprano Janet Hopkins, set to poems by children of the concentration camp Terezin who perished in the Holocaust. She will perform her own songs as a singer-songwriter, March 2012. PREMIERES: Children of Terezin, a song cycle for mezzo-soprano Janet Hopkins, Columbia, SC, April 2012. PERFORMANCES: Yizkor (Remember), Columbia, SC, April 2011, Sept. 2011. PUBLICATIONS: Winters, Quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano. sai-national.org WINTER 2012 PAN PIPES 23