Annual American Composers Update
Jack Gottlieb
Jack Gottlieb is a New York, NY resident. He devoted Jan.-Sept.
1999 to completing his book
Funny, It Doesn't Sound
Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced
American Popular Music. In Fall 1999, the lead article
of the Leonard Bernstein Newsletter was Gottlieb's
Bernstein's
Late-Night Thoughts, about jottings by Bernstein on
book fly-leaves and Mahler scores. On Apr. 9, 1999, Gottlieb
served as a panelist on an Indiana Univ. discussion of
Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. He gave a seminar
on career opportunities, Oct. 19, 1999 at the Eastman
School of Music.
Performances
Works heard in London, England in 1999 included
Two
Affirmations, for choir and brass sextet, with combined
choirs from Alyth Gardens, the Free Church, and St. Jude's
with the London Collegium Brass, under Donald Hawneybeall,
June 17; and selections from
New Year's Service for
Young People, with the Jewish Heritage Youth Choir,
conducted by Vivian Bellos, to be recorded for the Milken
Archive label, Nov. 21. Between Nov. 8, 1997 and June
6, 1999, the Zamir Chorale, of Boston, Joshua Jacobson
conducting, sang
Half-Kaddish (Affirmation No. 2),
for choir and piano, 13 times at different New England
venues. On Oct. 15, 1999,
Love Songs for Sabbath
(selections), a Friday-evening service for cantor, reader,
choir, organ, and percussion, and
Set Me As a Seal,
a choral dance for choir, violin, and piano, had performances
at Texas Tech Univ., led by Kenneth Davis, in Lubeck,
TX, to be recorded for the Milken Archive label.
Recordings
Psalmistry (selections), for SATB choir, soloists,
and 12 players; University of Southern Mississippi Chorus
with chamber ensemble conducted by Timothy Koch; Milken
Archive.
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