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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • commemorative march for band. César Franck Violin Sonata arranged for alto saxophone and piano. What is Beauty? For soli TTBB. Bobby Breen Songs (arrangements) for TTBB chorus and piano. Two Quartets for Oboe and strings (Oboe Quartets). Wisconsin Greenery for concert band. PREMIERES: The Real Alice, Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Dan Julson and narrated/mimed by Gina and Emma Cruciani, Jan. 2011. Music for Young cunningham People (arrangements of Robert Schumann piano pieces), the Bloomer, Wisconsin, High School Band Matthew Tiller, conductor, May 2011. PERFORMANCES: Piano Trio No. 3 (to saxophones), George Wolfe, James Hilton and Amanda Fratangeli, Ball State Chamber Music Festival, Muncie, Indiana, June 2011. Coffee-Cake Walk, clarinet and band, Chippewa Valley Civic Band (Eau Claire), Ron Gard, conducting, Craig Lehmeier, soloist, April 2011. PUBLICATIONS: Subito/Seesaw plans to publish a series of light (summer park) compositions and arrangements for concert band. RECORDINGS: Orchestral ballet music She recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic orchestra, Petr Vronsky (Czech Republic). The same group also recorded the final three movements of the orchestrated Schubert Gastein Masterwork. The Schubert will be released by Parma/Navona in early 2012, the ballet music in early 2013. GREG DANNER • • • NEWS: Partita, for horn, oboe, and piano, was commissioned by East Tennessee State University to honor the university's centennial. Danner received the Grand Prize and First Place in Orchestra/Band/ Instrumental division for the 2010 Composer's Guild Composition Contest for The Greatest Generation. He has also received an ASCAP Award for 2011. PREMIERES: Seven Wonders, for symphony band. Twitter, for flute ensemble, for the National Flute Association 2011 Conference Collegiate Flute, Ensemble. PUBLICATIONS: The Greatest Generation, based on writings included in Tom Brokaw's book, symphony band and narrator, C. Alan Publications. Goosebumps, concert band, C. Alan Publications. Ballad for Band, Grand Mesa Music. RECORDINGS: Suite for Brass Quintet recorded by the Brass Arts Quintet for album titled Suites and Treats, on Mark Records. Volume 1 of Danner's music for band/wind ensemble will be released this November by Mark Records. WEBSITE: gregdanner.com WALLACE DE PUE, SR. • NEWS: Please Google: "barbershopera Something Special" and see/hear the only opera in music history that is totally unaccompanied.  The piece is now in the hands of a producer in New York City who is considering having the piece performed, live. In June, I was one of three judges for the Foothills Chorale Composition Contest in Clemson, SC. PREMIERES: Round of the Goblins, string orchestra, arr. of Antonio Bazzini's piece, Sausheim in Alsace, France, April 2011. PERFORMANCES:  Sing dem Herrn, arr. of M. Praetorius, St. Lucas Lutheran Church, Toledo, OH May 2011. The Fiddler's Fare, SATB/ de pue orchestra, also, A La La Song (voice/guitar), Bowling Green Performing Arts Ctr. Sept.-Oct. 2011. The Fiddler's Fare (orchestra) and An Old-Fashioned Waltz, Kimmel Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, June 2011. PUBLICATIONS: The Highwayman (cello/piano). Domine Deus (SATB). The Fiddler's Fare (SATB/ orchestra) arr. Chromatophore (2 violins/bassoon/ piano) EMMA LOU DIEMER NEWS: ASCAPLUS AWARD for 2010-11. Judge for the State Contest, Composers Today, Music Teachers Association of California, 2011. Information/interview to/with Dr. Jennifer Kelly, Lafayette College, for her book on 25 living American women composers (final interview), 2011. Commissioned by Wyatt Smith, concert organist: an organ work for his Junior Recital at Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota. Commissioned by Philip Ficsor: a new work for violin and orchestra. Commissioned by Elizabeth Augsburger and Sara McDaris of Huntsville, AL: a setting/incidental music to Sara's story "Creation" . Guest Artist on Jeannine Jordan's Pro-Motion Music on the web. PREMIERES: Piano Trio No. 2 (2009) commissioned by the Rawlins Piano Trio (Univ. of South Dakota), Eunho Kim, violin, MarieElaine Gagnon, cello, Susan Keith Gray Gray, diemer piano; Colton Recital Hall, University of South Dakota. Also performed by them at First Congregational Church, Sioux Falls, SD; Trinity Lutheran Church, Yankton, SD; La Fundación Sinfonía Concertante, Teatro Nacional, Panama; First Presbyterian Church, Sioux City, SD, Feb. 2011. Legend of Sleepy Hollow for chorus and keyboard, Cappella Gloriana of San Diego and San Diego North Coast Singers, Stephen Sturk/Virginia Sublett, conductors, Encinitas Community Library, Encinitas, CA; Chula Vista Public Library, Chula Vista, CA Halloween concerts, Oct. 2010. Canberra Bells, Lyn Fuller, carillon., National Carillon, Canberra, Australia, Apr10; written for the 40th anniversary of the Canberra Carillon. PERFORMANCES: Hallelujah for Mixed Chorus and Organ, Cantores Minores, Warsaw, Poland, Joseph Herter, conductor, USA tour, 2010. Toccata and other piano works, Becky Billock, pianist, at venues in Olympia, WA, Portland, OR, Salem, OR, College Place, WA, Seattle, WA, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 2010. Toccata for Piano, Matthew Weissman, piano, Doctoral recital at Indiana University, Bloomington, Dec. 2010. Also Salten Hall, New York Insitute of Technology, Brookville, Long Island, May 2010; (Also on YouTube, as are several performances of this work). Toccata for Six (mallet percussion), Drum Joy Ensemble, Ruth Cahn, conductor, Eastman School of Music, March 2010. In One of the Stars for chorus, guitar, piano, Cantabile Chamber Chorale, Rebecca Scott, conductor, Christ United Methodist Church, Piscataway, NJ, April 2010. PUBLICATIONS: Seven Pieces für Klavier (originally Seven Pieces for Marilyn), written in 1982, published by Certosa Verlag (Karthause, Germany), 2010. Concerto for Trumpet, Suite for Harpsichor, published by Certosa Verlag, 2011. Improvisation für Violoncello und Klavier (Improvisations for Cello and Piano), written in 2000 for Ellen Grolman and Joan DeVee Dixon, Certosa Verlag publisher (see above), 2010. Bells Over Sydney for Carillon: A Quiet Walk-About, Walk-About and Away, Variations on Waltzing Matilda, commissioned by June Catchpoole, NSW, Australia; published by Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA), 2010. RECORDINGS: An early Orion recording of four of Diemer's chamber works was "revived" on ClassicsOnLine and the Naxos Music Library (Four Chamber Works by Emma Lou Diemer). Toccata for Piano is on the album Muses Nine: Eight American Composers Plus One Pianist, Becky Billock, Piano; CD Baby, 2011.  Four organ works (hymn-based) are on the album Stewart Scharch plays the Organ at Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church, CD Baby 2011. An Emily Dickinson Suite (5 settings of Dickinson poems) for women's chorus are on the album Sisters Concerto Della Donna, Baby 2011. Sonata for Flute and Piano is on the album Diamonds Uncovered, Deanna Little, flute and Jerome Reed, piano, CD Baby 2010. Toccata for Piano is on the album Music by Women, re-issued by Parma as the Capstone Collection, (originally issued by Capstone). WEBSITE: emmaloudiemermusic.com ANTHONY DOHERTY NEWS: Baloo Lammy is included in OCP's Verbum Caro, a collection of choral music for Advent Lessons and Carols services (octavos & CD). New commission for the Contra Costa Children's Chorus, "Dors, ma colombe / Schlaf', mein Kinderlein" (SSA unacc,) for Singflut (women's chorus), Switzerland. PREMIERES: Two pieces to winning texts from the Contra Costa Children's Chorus Young Writers Award program: One Harmony," SSAA, piano, text by Mary Youm, and My Day at the Beach, unison, piano, text by Alizé Martinez, Contra Costa Children's Chorus, Iris Lamanna, director, Alamo CA, May 2011. PERFORMANCES: Today the Virgin Gives Birth, Agni Parthene, Contra Costa Children's Chorus, International Festival of the Aegean, Syros Island, Greece, July 2011. PUBLICATIONS: Today the Virgin Gives Birth, SSA unacc; opt. Greek verse, OCP. DANIEL DORFF PREMIERES: It Takes Four to Tango for Flute Quartet, Flutes de Salon, San Diego, July 2011. Woodland Reverie for Solo Flute, Cindy Anne Broz flute, National Flute Association Annual Convention, Charlotte, NC, Aug. 2011. Tweet for Solo Piccolo, Lois Bliss Herbine, piccolo, National Flute Association Annual Convention, Charlotte NC, Aug. 2011. Perennials for flute, clarinet in A, and piano, Sherry Kujala flute, Larry Combs, clarinet, Nolan Pearson piano, Evanston, IL, Oct. 2011. Take the Orchestra Out to the Ballgame, sai-national.org WINTER 2012 PAN PIPES 27

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