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62 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • 11/13/10. Visiting Guest Composer at The Cleveland Institute of Music, New Music Ensemble. Several chamber works will be performed and they repeat the program at the Cleveland Museum for Contemporary Art the following week on 11/4 – 11/8/10. Carillon Sky for violin and tiny orchestra by Mei-Fang Wang, violin and The University of Illinois New Music Ensemble conducted by Steven Taylor at the Krannert Center on 9/21/10. WEBSITE: augustareadthomas.com HOLLIS THOMS NEWS: Hollis Thoms completed a 160 page book entitled The Art of the Thoms Family about the history of five generations of music making by the Thoms family from 19202010. O , Know, Sweet Love, I Always Write thoms Of You, a 60-minute theater piece for soprano, baritone and violin, viola, cello and double bass will be premiered with Jason Thoms, baritone and Treva Foss, soprano in the summer of 2011. The work is based on Sonnets by William Shakespeare and love letters by Jacqueline Thoms written in 1968. The work was written to commemorate the composer and wife Jacqueline's 40th wedding anniversary. PREMIERES: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a 60-minute opera for 3 singers, 12 winds, string bass, and 2 percussion, with 40 Gustave Dore projected slides, based on the famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was premiered at St. Johns College, Annapolis, Maryland conducted by Sonja Winkler with Jason Thoms as the Ancient Mariner and Treva Foss and David Kellett as co-narrators. The performance was preceded by a talk by Dr. Philip Allen on 2/14/10. Serenity by Jacqueline Thoms, soprano, Chelsea Tanner, flute, and Jonathan Parker, organ at Christ Lutheran Church Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland on 8/15/10. Echoes Of A Time Gone By for soprano, crotales, flute (alto flute and piccolo) and piano and Ascend, O Lord at Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, IL on 10/10/10. Passion for 4 soloists, mixed chorus, oboe, horn, strings, amplified harpsichord and marimba by the Herb Dimmock Singers conducted by Herb Dimmock as part of the Bach Cantata Concert Series at Christ Lutheran Church Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland on 3/27/11. PERFORMANCES: …A Blue True Dream Of Sky by Concordia University New York Concert Choir directed by Dr. Jason Thoms at Lutheran churches in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Canada on 4/18/10 and 5/4 – 5/17/10. Marked with the Cross of Christ by Jacqueline Thoms, soprano and Jonathan Parker, organ at two services at Christ Lutheran Church Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD on 8/15/10. Serenity (Psalm 23) for soprano, flute, and organ by Reverend Michael Costello, organ at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest, IL on 10/10/10. Prepare the Way for mixed choir, two trumpets and organ based on the call of John the Baptist directed by Larry Allen at Mt. Lebanon United Lutheran Church, Mt. Lebanon, PA on 11/10. 38 PAN PIPES WINTER 2011 sai-national.org National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • FRANK TICHELI PREMIERES: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra by Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Hakan Rosengren, soloist, conducted by Juozas Domarkas on 4/17/10 and Round Top Festival Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta on 7/10/10. Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Band by the California State University Fullerton Wind Symphony Hakan Rosengren, soloist, conducted by Mitch Fennell on 10/10/10. San Antonio Dances by the Lone Star Wind Symphony directed by Eugene Corporon, director; Frank Ticheli, guest conductor on 7/26/10. PERFORMANCES: Playing With Fire, a concerto for small jazz band and wind band by University of Texas Wind Ensemble with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band on 9/30/10. Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Band by the USC Thornton Wind Ensemble, Hakan Rosengren, soloist, conducted by H. Robert Reynolds on 10/31/10. Radiant Voices by the Wichita Falls Symphony conducted by Candler Schaffer on 10/2/10. All-Ticheli Concert by Dallas Wind Symphony conducted by Jerry Junkin on 11/16/10. Symphony no. 1 by Michigan State University Wind Symphony conducted by Kevin Sedatole on 12/2/10. PUBLICATIONS: All to be published by Manhattan Beach Music: San Antonio Dances (Nov. 2010); Rest (Nov. 2010); Clarinet Concerto (March 2011). WEBSITE: FrankTicheli.com ROGER VOGEL PREMIERES: Canticles by D. Ray McClelland, clarinet; David Starkweather, cello; and Richard Zimdars, piano at the University of Georgia on 2/24/10. PERFORMANCES: Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, was performed by Lawrence Gwozdz, saxophone, and Andrzej Jungiewicz, piano at the Wolsztyn Dom Kultury, Wolsztyn, Poland on 8/13/10, and also at the Przelewice Ogrod Dendrologiczny, Przelewice, Poland on 8/22/10. Night Songs by Betty Braunstein, flute, and Sam Black, piano at Le Chateau Boutin in Bayfield, WI on 7/8/10, and also at Duluth Congregational Church in Duluth, MN on 7/29/10. The Bat from Cats and Bats and Things With Wings by the UGA Concert Choir at the University of Georgia on 2/25/10. Metamorphoses by Thomas Cox, trombone, and Anatoly Sheludakov, piano at the University of Georgia on 4/2/10. The Atlanta Music Scene on WABE FM in Atlanta on vogel June 28, 2010 was devoted to the music of Roger C. Vogel. Five works were broadcast in performances by UGA faculty and students (Night Songs for violin and piano; First Light for oboe and piano; Excursions for flute and piano; Trio for violin, cello, and piano; and Concerto for Trumpet and Winds). PUBLICATIONS: Cascades for brass quintet. Lakeland, FL.: Howard J. Buss Publications, 2009. Soliloquy for solo alto saxophone. Lakeland, FL.: Howard J. Buss Publications, 2009. Canticles for clarinet, cello, and piano. Lakeland, FL: Howard J. Buss Publications, 2010. Pas de deux for flute and trombone. Lakeland, FL: Howard J. Buss Publications, Member Laureate • • • • • 2010. Pas de deux for flute and bassoon (transcription of Pas de deux for flute and trombone). Lakeland, FL: Howard J. Buss Publications, 2010. WEBSITE: rogvogel.myweb.uga.edu/ P. KELLACH WADDLE NEWS: Among his many accolades, three of Waddle's major works have been nominated as possible finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. PREMIERES: A Walk Though The Vampire's Garden: Tone-Poem for Orchestra by the Prince George's Philharmonic conducted by Shawn Burke-Storer, Bowie, MD on 3/11. Shadows of the Abandoned Wine Warehouse for Solo Flute and Dust Covered Bible on Walnut Table: Lied for Flute and Piano by Lauryn Gould, Flute; Nikki Birdsong, Piano in Austin,TX on 2/11. Three Pieces for Mixed Strings and Woodwinds on Novels by Ernest Hemingway in Austin, TX in winter, 2011. Aria-Variation on Mozart's Piano Concerto #21 for Solo Bass by the composer at Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX in 1/11. PERFORMANCES: Thessalonians 5:17 -- Sonata di Chiesa for Unacc. Clarinet by Rev. Brian Peterson in Ascension Lutheran Church in Austin, TX in 8/10. Praying for the Strength of The Lutheran Coffee: Prelude-Rhapsody for Solo Bass by the Composer Brian Peterson at Ascension Lutheran Church in Austin, TX on 8/10. Seen Through Windshields: Sonata in Two Movements for Double Bass & Harp and The Beautiful Fallen Colors of Chocolate and Whiskey: Trio for Harp/Bass/Piano by The composer, bass; Elaine Barber, harp; Nikki Birdsong, piano in Austin, TX on 11/10. Three Pieces about Banned Books: Love and Understanding for the Angst and Heart of Holden Caufield: Sonata in One Movement for Solo Bass after J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye / Of Frankenstein's Pain, and the Female Mind: Sonata in One Movement for Bass and Violin after Shelley/ String Quintet No. 6 : Of Banning and The Bible by The Composer, Bass; M. Petrone and J,. Desautels, Violins; L. Nelson, Viola; H. Moreno, Cello in Austin, TX on 10/10. Two Novelettes for Piano and Of All the Cold April Prayers: Prelude-Rhapsody for Piano by Derek Delgado in Anchorage, AK on 12/10. WEBSITE: classicalmatters.com/pkwaddle.htm WANG AN-MING PREMIERES: Mystic Moments by Calvert Johnson, organ at the National Convention of the Royal Canadian College of Organists in Victoria, B.C. in 7/20/10. Windsong (a cappella for SATB) in the Collegium Musicum conducted by Thomas Meier in Washington, D.C. on 6/13/10. PERFORMANCES: Let All the World in Every Corner Sing, mixed chorus, brass, percussion, and organ by the FMMC Chorale and Orchestra conducted by Webster A. Rogers, Jr. in Washington, D.C. on 6/13/10. Fantasy for Solo Organ by David Palmer, organ at the National Convention of the Royal Canadian College of Organists in Victoria, B.C. on 7/18/10. Arabesque, Petite Valse, Danse Chinoise, and Toccata by Frank Conlon, piano at the Manor at Strathmore, MD on 3/11/10. Selections from The Song of Endless Sorrow (a song cycle) by Hong-fa Chu, tenor and Kelly Chang, piano at the Mansion at Strathmore, MD on 12/4/09. Falling Snow by Academic Symphony Orchestra of Kharkiv Philharmonic conducted by Whei-Mei Lee in Kharkov, Ukraine on 2/21/09.

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