Annual American Composers Update
Allen Brings
Living in Wilton, CT, Allen Brings is Professor of Music
and co-ordinator of the Theory and Ear Training Program
at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens Coll. (CUNY).
Duo Concertante, for cello and piano, played by
Peter Rosenfeld and Morey Ritt, recorded on the Captstone
Records Society of Composers series, now is included on
the Internet audio archive
Composerver.
Premieres
Giacomo La Vita and Costas Psarros premiered
Three
Aphorisms, for guitar duo,, Dec. 11, 1998 at Queens
Coll. Conducted by Harold Rosenbaum, the New York (NY)
Virtuoso Singers presented
The Lament of Rachel,
for SATB chamber choir and piano, four-hands, Apr. 24,
1999. Pianist Carol Chan introduced
Vision fugitive,
May 15, 1999 in Westport, CT. A program celebrating Brings's
35 years as a Queens Coll. faculty member, Nov. 4, 1998,
featured the first performance of
Peroration, for
solo French horn, with David Jolley.
Performances
Also on the Queens Coll. program were
Sonata after
Vivaldi, for cello and piano, with Alexander Kouguell
and Brings;
Caprice, for oboe and piano, with Ronald
Roseman and Brings; and
Quintet for Strings, with
the Meridian String Quartet and cellist Arianne Lallamand.
Cynthia Sikes, Dennis Parker, and Sonia Rubinsky played
Chimeric Fantasy, for alto saxophone, cello, and
piano, Oct. 29, 1998 at Queens Coll. A Long Island Composers
Alliance concert included
Three Songs of Blake and
Donne, performed by tenor Rufus Hallmark with the
composer at the piano, Feb. 14, 1999 in Great Neck, NY.
Publications
Three Aphorisms; Duologue; oboe and clarinet;
Duologue
2; flute and oboe;
Duologue 3; clarinet and
piano;
Duologue 4; flute and cello;
Vision fugitive;
all by Mira Music Associates.
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