Annual American Composers Update
A. Oscar Haügland
A. Oscar Haugland resides in DeKalb, IL, where is is retired
as a professor of theory/composition at Northern Illinois
Univ. Currently, he is working on
Door County Suite
for piano.
Premieres
Pianist Oksana Ezhokina premiered
Blaz's Galop,
Mar. 29, 1999 at Northern Illinois Univ. In 1999, James
Berkenstock and Midsummer's Music Strings introduced
Concertino
for Bassoon and Strings with three Door County, WI
performances: at the Hardy Gallery, in Ephraim, June 18-19;
and at the Peninsula Art School, in Fish Creek, June 20.
Performances
Soprano Linda Poetschke and bassoonist Ron Noble presented
maggie and milly and molly and may (text by e.e.
cummings) June 8, 1997 at Our Lady of the Lake Univ.,
in San Antonio, TX. The King William Winds played
Little
Suite for Woodwind Quintet at the University of Texas,
San Antonio, Sept. 13, 1998. On Feb. 27, 1999, Jessica
Rugh, clarinet, and Steven Squires, piano, gave a performance
of
Stevjing at Northern Illinois Univ.
Three
Chorale Preludes (Lamb of God Most Holy, O Sacred Head
Now Wounded, and Vater Unser Im Himmelreich) was heard
Mar. 26, 1999 at First Lutheran Church, in DeKalb, with
organist Randall Stubbs. The Trinity Episcopal Church,
led by Jean Heath, sang
Holy Spirit, Truth Divine,
May 23, 1999 in Bend, OR.
Recordings
The Flag, for children's chorus; Northern Illinois
Children's Chorus, Carol Stubbs conducting, Randall Stubbs,
accompanist;
Voices in the Wind CD, May 1999.
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