Annual American Composers Update
Samuel Adler
SAI National Arts Associate Samuel Adler lives in Perrysburg,
OH and teaches at the Juilliard School of Music, in New
York, NY. Recently, he finished his
Viola Concerto,
commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for
Randolph Kelly and the orchestra, and
Be NOT Afraid
-- The Isle is Full of Noises, for the American Brass
Quintet. Carl Fischer, Inc. has published his band arrangement
of John Knowles Paine's
Solemn March.
Premieres
On June 15, 1998 in Granada, Spain, John Sampan and Marilyn
Shrude premiered
Pensive Soliloquy, for alto saxophone
and piano. In May 1998 at the Riverside Church, in New
York, NY, Timothy Koch led the University of Southern
Mississippi chorus in the first performance of
My Beloved
is Mine, for SATB choir. The U.S. Military Academy
Band, under LtC. David Deitrick, presented
Dawn to
Glory, Oct. 1998 at West Point.
Concerto for Cello
and Orchestra was played first in Rochester, NY, with
Stephen Beger and the Eastman Philharmonia, Christoph
von Dohn‡nyi conducting, Oct. 1998. Under the baton of
Andrew Litton, Wayne Foster and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
introduced
Lux Perpetua, for organ and orchestra,
Feb. 1999 in Dallas, TX. Conducted by the composer,
American
Airs and Dances was heard first with the Williamsville
(NY) Wind Ensemble, Feb. 1999. A University of Iowa program,
Apr. 1999, featured the premiere of
Contrasting Inventions,
for alto and tenor saxophone, with Lawrence Gwozdz and
Mark Aarenson.
Performances
In 1999,
Brahmsiana, for eight horns, was played
by the Juilliard Horn Choir, under Joel Sachs, in New
York, NY (Jan.); in Rochester, NY (Mar.); and back in
New York (Mar.). The Seal Bay Festival in Maine, June
1999, included
Aeolis, God of the Winds, with Timothy
Perry, clarinet; Andrew Waggoner, violin; Paul Brantley,
cello; and Gloria Chang, piano.
Art Creates Artists
had performances with the Johns Hopkins Orchestra, Jed
Gaylin conducting, in Baltimore, Nov. 1998; with the Fort
Worth (TX) Youth Orchestra, Feb. 1999; and with the American
Festival for the Arts Orchestra, Emily Freeman Brown conducting,
in Houston, TX, June 1999. In 1999, Trio Arbos presented
Trio No. 2, for violin, cello, and piano, in Bowling
Green and Philadelphia (Mar.); and in Madrid, Spain (Apr.).
Adler's piano solo
The Road to Terpsichore had
1999 performances from David Allen Wehr, in Little Rock
(Feb.) and Huntsville, AL (Aug.); from Chang, in Los Angeles,
CA (Sept.); and from Bradford Gowen, at the University
of Maryland (July).
Publications
Lux Perpetua; Concerto for Cello and Orchestra; Concerto
for Guitar and Orchestra; Pensive Soliloquy; all by
Theodore Presser.
Dawn to Glory; American Airs and Dances; Contrasting
Inventions; all by
Carl
Fischer, Inc.
Six Sephardic Choruses; SATB
choir and piano;
Transcontinental
Music Publications.
Recordings
First Chairs, cantos for solo woodwind and brass;
first-chair players of major orchestras;
Albany
Troy 306.
Choose Life, for choir, soli, and orchestra;
Piano Concerto No. 2; Alan Feinberg;
Acrostics,
for harpsichord and five soloists; all on
Albany
Troy 328.
Unholy Sonnets, songs;
Gasparo
Records.
Line Drawings; The Rascher Saxophone
Quartet; Bis CD 953.
Psalm Trilogy; Gloria Dei
Cantores;
Paraclete
GDCD 027.
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