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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • Chorale, Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, MD, Dec. 2011. Todesfuge, commissioned by Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone, premiered with cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, The Austrian Cultural Forum, laitman NYC, Feb. 2012; also, The Austrian Embassy, Washington, DC, 2/23; also Wigmore Hall, London, July 2012. PERFORMANCES: Music of Lori Laitman, Shenson Chamber Music Series, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, March 2012. The Act, Young Artists from Opera Colorado, The Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver, CO, Nov. 2011; also, New Lone Tree Arts Center, Lone Tree, CO, Nov. 2011. Selected songs and Beyond All Price, Diane Reich, soprano, Scott Holden, piano, IAWM Congress, Sept. 2011. Vedem: Choral Excerpts and Vedem Oratorio, The Colorado Springs Children's Choir, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, May 2011. The Act, Megan McCall, soprano, Rolando Sanchez, tenor, Robert Mollicone, piano, Urbanarias, Artisphere, Arlington, VA, Jan. 2011. The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs, Natalie Mann, soprano, Jeffrey Pankl, piano, Weill Recital Hall, NYC, Feb. 2011. RECORDINGS: Vedem: The Song Cycle, Angela Niederloh, mezzo, Ross Hauck, tenor, Laura DeLuca, clarinet, Mina Miller, piano, Benaroya Recital Hall, Seattle, WA, May 2011. I Never Saw Another Butterfly on "Emerging Voices" Elisabeth Halliday, soprano, Zach Herchen, saxophone, Sept. 2011. WEBSITE: artsongs.com and scarletletteropera.com LIBBY LARSEN • • • • • PUBLICATIONS: All 2011: The Moabit Sonnets, two sopranos, tenor, bass and chamber orchestra; Albrecht Haushofer trans. M.D. Herter Norton text. Celebration Mass: Catholic Edition, congregation, SATB larsen choir, organ; traditional Catholic liturgy. If Music Be The Food of Love, SATB, piano; Henry Heveningham, text. O Magnum Mysterium, SATB chorus and prerecorded seven-track solo voice, with sitar, vibraphone and bells and laptop computer plus speakers; traditional text. Donal Oge, soprano, piano; Anonymous trans. Lady Augusta Gregory, text. I Cried Unto God, tenor, piano; Psalms 77:1, 67, 28:7. Stone Soup, three medium voices, narrator, piano; Marcia Brown, text. Three Love Songs, baritone, piano; Pablo Neruda trans. Terence Clarke, Gustavo Escobedo, Stephen Tapscott, texts. Turn, Turn, baritone, piano; Bethany Ringdal, text. 79 Fossil Gestures, piano duo. WEBSITE: libbylarsen.com JOHN ANTHONY LENNON NEWS: Eternal Gates is an hour length lyric and dramatic oratorio based on the texts found in Wallis Budge's Egyptian Book of the Dead. The twelve musical vignettes that describe the creation myth through the texts are sung in the original Egyptian language. The concerts were prepared and conducted by Eric Nelson, Director of the Emory University Chorus, and Richard Prior, Director of the Emory University, Orchestra. Composer seeks interested conductors! PREMIERES: Eternal Gates, chorus and orchestra, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Emory University, Atlanta, April 2011. Elysian Bridges, saxophone quartet, lennon Capitol Quartet, NASA national conference, Tempe, AZ, March 2012. PERFORMANCES: At the Sound of Light, guitar quartet, Rodin Gallery, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, May 2011. Serpent, for flute, viola and harp, Vivre Musicale, Baltimore, Oct. 2011. Concert Etudes, Alejandro Cote, guitar, St Peter's Episcopal Church, Macon, GA. PUBLICATIONS: Arrangement of JS Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for brass quintet, Cherry Classics, Vancouver, WA. Soliloquy for solo trumpet, Cherry Classics. Silhouettes for solo guitar, Michael Lorimer Editions. RECORDINGS: Distances Within Me, alto saxophone and piano, Centaur Records CRC 3066. Messengers, alto saxophone and acoustic guitar, Liscio Recordings LCD 03102. Silhouettes, Concert Etudes, solo guitar, Artek; recordings issued Nov. 2011. WEBSITE: johnanthonylennon.com STEPHEN LIAS • • • NEWS: Continuing with his ongoing project to compose pieces about the national parks of the United States, composer Stephen Lias completed a residency at Denali National Park in June 2011 and will be serving as Artist-in-Residence for Gates of the Arctic National Park in the summer of 2012. Additional residencies during 2012 will take place at Wrangell-St. Elias and Glacier Bay National Parks, with orchestral and band compositions about all three Alaska locations coming in the 2012-2013 year. PREMIERES: Denali for String Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Nacogdoches, TX, Oct. 2011. Mount Rainier Search and Rescue for saxophone quartet and percussion ensemble XPlorium Ensemble, Chiayi City, Taiwan, July 2011; also, North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, Tempe, AZ, March 2012. PERFORMANCES: Five Characters from David Copperfield, Nathan lias Nabb, saxophone, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2011. Mélange of Neumes, National Flute Association Convention, Charlotte, NC, Aug. 2011. Prince William Sound, Louisiana All-State Orchestra, Baton Rouge, LA, Nov. 2011. PUBLICATIONS: All from Alias Press: Timberline Sonata for trumpet and piano. Mount Rainier Search and Rescue for saxophone quartet and percussion ensemble. Songs of a Sourdough for baritone and piano. WEBSITE: stephenlias.com DAN LOCKLAIR • • NEWS: Dan Locklair returned to Yale University in June 2011 to teach composition at the Institute of Sacred Music during the 2011 Summer Term. Residencies for 2011 included Composer-inResidence for the 2011 Carolina Chamber Music Festival in September in New Bern, NC, and a residency at Harvard in December surrounding the World Premiere of his new choral work commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, WINTER (from the forgottens). Radio broadcasts of Locklair works continue to flourish, both through the many commercial CD's featuring Locklair compositions and live performances, including syndicated radio programs Pipe Dreams and With Heart and Voice. PREMIERES:Creator of locklair the Stars of Night (An Advent Anthem for SATB Chorus and Organ), Harvard University Choir (Edward E. Jones, Organist and Choirmaster; Christian Lane, Assistant Organist and Choirmaster), Memorial Church, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Dec. 2011. WINTER (from the forgottens) (A Four-movement Choral Cycle for SATB, TTBB and SSAA Choruses and Piano), Commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society (Andrew Clark, conductor), Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society (Andrew Clark, conductor), Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Dec. 2011. Trumpets of Light (A Suite in Four Movements for Trumpet & Organ), commissioned by The Reformed Church of Bronxville, NY, funding from Mr. & Mrs. Mark J. Welshimer, Lorraine Cohen, trumpet; Matthew Phelps, organ, The Reformed Church of Bronxville, NY, Oct. 2011. Concerto for Organ and Orchestra, commissioned by the Greensboro Chapter of the American Guild of Organists for the Region IV AGO Convention, Eastern Music Festival Friends & Great Performers, Eastern Festival Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Susan Bates, organ soloist, Christ United Methodist Church, Greensboro, NC, June 2011. PERFORMANCES: In Memory H.H.L. for string orchestra, 2011 Fulton Bounty High School Honors Orchestra, Mark Laycock, conductor, Centennial High School, Roswell, GA, Nov. 2011. Dream Steps (A Dance Suite for Flute, Viola and Harp), Larkspur Trio, The Carolina Chamber Music Festival, First Baptist Church, New Bern, NC, Sept. 2011. Rubrics (A Liturgical Suite for Organ in Five Movements), John Scott, organ, Berliner Dom, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 2011. sai-national.org WINTER 2012 PAN PIPES 31