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62 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • latest commission, Elegy For The Greates Generation. WEBSITE: lindarobbinscoleman.com DINOS CONSTANTINIDES NEWS: Dinos Constantinides received two decentralized grants over $16,000 for the Sinfonietta to perform (Libraries, schools, elderly, students, etc.). ASCAP awarded him an award of $2,000 for composition this year as well. The University of Macedonia, Greece awarded him an Honorary Doctorate on 5/10. PERFORMANCES: Sappho Songs at the National Association of Composers in New York, NY on 6/10. Patterns for Violin and Piano by Borislava Iltcheva, violin in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY on 5/9/09. Landscapes II for Percussion at Kean University in Union, NJ on 4/25/10. Trio No. 2 – Sappho Songs – Olga's Songs in Thessaloniki, Greece on 5/20/10. Ballade for the Hellenic Land for Cello in Ioannia, Greece on 3/13/10. RECORDINGS: Three new CD's from the USA and one from Greece. RICHARD A. CROSBY • • • PREMIERES: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 10 at KMTA Convention in Louisville, KY on 10/24/10. PERFORMANCES: Appalachian Variations, Op. 2 for symphonic band by Mason (OH) High School Band on 5/20/10. Marudvina, Op. 7 by Jeremy Mulholland, violin and the composer, piano at Stephen Collins Foster Music Camps on 6/10. PUBLICATIONS: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 10, published by Prairie Dawg Press. A Walt Whitman Portrait, Op. 9 for mixed chorus and symphonic band published in 10/10 by Northeastern Music Publications, Inc. MICHAEL G. CUNNINGHAM NEWS: New Compositions - Chrysalis at Mardi Gras Orchestral Ballet; The Real Alice for chamber orchestra and girl narrator; Concert Band arrangements of Faure's Nocturne No. 6 and Beethoven variations newly titled Anthem of Two Nations. Two operas in piano score: Quality Street and The New Year's Wish. PREMIERES: My Name is Pinocchio by the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dan Julson and narrated by Ryan Liddell at Memorial High School on 1/23/10. Pressed Rose by the Eau Claire Municipal Band conducted by Brad Stoughton in Owen Park, Eau Claire on 7/22/10. PERFORMANCES: Urban Samba by Chippewa Valley Concert Band conducted by Ron Gard at Delong Middle School in Eau Claire on 4/14/10. PUBLICATIONS: 17 small ensemble compositions (sonatas, etc.) published by Seesaw Music Corp. Honorary Member • • • • (Subito). Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach) published by AuthorHouse. RECORDINGS: TransActions, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Ovidiu Marinescu, conductor, on a shared CD called CONTINUUM on the Parma / Navona label. Schubert's Gastein Masterwork (Cunningham Orchestration) 1st movement, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Vronsky, conductor, to be released on the Parma / Navona label. WILLIAM MAC DAVIS NEWS: Received the 2010 – 11 ASCAPLUS Award. Premiere and several performances of new organ work, Toccata on 'Darwall', is scheduled for the 3/11 concert tour of South Korea by organist Yoon-Mi Lim. PREMIERES: Sonata for tuba and piano by Tim Royster, tuba in Washington, D.C. on 1/29/10. Excursion for orchestra by the Southwestern Gala Orchestra conducted by David Thye in Fort Worth, TX on 2/24/10. PERFORMANCES: The Falcon by Lynda Poston-Smith, soprano, and Robert Smith, piano in Fort Worth, TX on 10/26/10. Late Have I Loved Thee by Lynda PostonSmith, soprano, and Robert Smith, piano in Forth Worth, TX on 10/26/10. Fanfare On A French Carol by the Southcliff Orchestra conducted by the composer in Fort Worth, TX on 12/4, 12/5, 12/15/10. WALLACE DE PUE • • NEWS: ASCAP gave me my 24th consecutive award for composition on 9/17/10. The Fresno CA New Music Festival accepted my song, "The Birdwatcher," (Fl., Bb Cl., harpsichord or piano, and soprano voice, for performance de pue on 9/9/10. PREMIERES: Panis Angelicus (Cesar Franck – arranged by Wallace De Pue) by Heidelberg College Violin Quartet at Trinity Church in Tiffin, OH on 4/4/10. PERFORMANCES: The Fiddler's Fair (TTBB / vln) by Chad Hoops, violin, and the University School U.S. Glee Club in Hunting Valley, OH on 5/18/10. Hosanna! (SATB / 2 tpts., tbn, tba, tam tam or gong) at 1st United Methodist Church in Bowling Green, OH on 4/14/10. The Disciple Variations (organ) at 1st United Methodist Church in Bowling Green, OH on 8/16/10. PUBLICATIONS: New publications of original music by ThatNewMusicWebsite.com. Arrangements: The Fiddler's Contest Suite (four movements by Wallace De Pue) re-arranged WEBSITE: mustec.bgsu.edu/~wallace Member Laureate • • • • • EMMA LOU DIEMER PREMIERES: Quartet for Flute, Violin, Cello, and Piano on Themes by Howard Hanson by Carmen Lemoine, flute, Maria Razka, violin, Mark Bridges, cello, Liu Liu, piano at the Women in Music Festival 2010 at Eastman School of Music at Christ Church in Rochester, NY on 3/10. DIEMER Canberra Bells by Lyn Fuller, carillon at the National Carillon at Canberra, Australia on 3/10. Fantasy for Carillon by Margo Halsten, carillon at University of California, Santa Barbara for the 40th anniversary of the Storke Tower and carillon on 10/09. Five Limericks for women's chorus, 2 pianos, percussion by the Women's Ensemble of Georgia College & State University, directed by Jennifer Flory at the First Baptist Church in Milledgeville, GA on 4/09. St. Anne (O God Our Help in Ages Past) by the Westmont College Orchestra conducted by Michael Shasberger at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara on 4/10. PERFORMANCES: Movement for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Piano by Katherine McClure, Melissa Bohl, Kenneth Ellison, Esma Pasic-Filipovic at Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University, Princeton, NJ on 9/09. Fiesta for Organ by Yasuko Harada at Minato Mirai Concert Hall in Yokohama, Japan on 4/10. Three Pieces for Piano by John Hord at Fresno City College in Fresno, CA on 7/09. Variations for Piano, Four Hands by Tachell Gerbert and Bradley Gregory at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Westlake Village, CA on 10/09. Quartet for Trumpet, Horn, Trombone and Piano by John Harbaugh, Jeffrey Snedeker, Mark Babbitt, Nikolas Caoile at Central Washington University Concert Hall on 2/10. PUBLICATIONS: Improvisations for Cello and Piano published by Certosa Verlag, D-55270 KleinWinternheim, Karthause 10, Germany, Isolde Weiermüller-Backes, editor, 2010. Seven Pieces for Piano, published by Certosa Verlag, 2010. Bells Over Sydney for Carillon, commissioned by June Catchpoole, NSW, Australia, published by Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, 2010. Fantasy for Carillon, commissioned by Margo Halsted, published by American Carillon Music Editions, 2010. Time Pieces for Trumpet and Organ, published by Zimbel Press/Subito, 2010, written for Colby and Carson Cooman. RECORDINGS: Summer Day, The Complete Works for Violin and Piano by Emma Lou Diemer. Philip Ficsor, violin; Emma Lou Diemer, piano. Aria and Scherzo, I N M E M O RIAM Composer James Mulcro Drew died December 23, 2010, after a brief illness. Born in New York in 1929, he studied with Wallingford Riegger and EdgardVarèse. He held professorships at Northwestern, Yale, California State - Fullerton, and UCLA. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship in the same year he was Fromm Foundation Orchestral Composer at the 1973 Tanglewood Music Festival, he also received grants from the National Endowment for the arts, and his music was also nominated for the Pulitzer. Mr. Drew's music was known for its experimentalism, and he was co-founder and co-director of the Greywolf Performing Arts Institute. His students are mourning the loss of a great man and good friend. Famed avant-garde composer Milton Babbitt passed away at the age of 94. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University College of Arts and Science and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Princeton University. He taught at Princeton University from 1938 – 1984, becoming a professor emeritus of music upon his retirement. Milton Babbitt was particularly noted for his electronic and serial music, and was credited with developing the first electronic synthesizer. He was a prolific composer, with over 110 compositions. In 1982, the Pulitzer Prize board awarded a special citation to Milton Babbitt for his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer. He was a member of the SAI American Composers Bureau and will be sorely missed. sai-national.org WINTER 2011 PAN PIPES 25

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