Annual American Composers Update
Samuel Magrill
Samuel Magrill serves as Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence
at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO), in Edmond.
He has received a Campus Funded Research Grant and a Merit
Credit Award, both for 1999-2000 from UCO, as well as
his 12th consecutive ASCAP award. From Dec. 1998 through
Jan. 1999, the Edmond Historical Society Museum featured
Magrill in its Arts and Entertainment exhibit. He was
elected president of the College Music Society South Central
Chapter.
Premieres
Premieres at UCO were
Paradise of Children and the
Gremlins who Stole It (1998, based on a portion of
Nathaniel Hawthorne's
A Wonder Book), commissioned
by Kay Creed, director of the UCO Opera Program, with
a 35-piece orchestra conducted by Jim Waddelow, Dec. 10-13,
1998; and
Let the Festivities Begin! (1999), commissioned
by Dr. Ralph Morris, Director of the UCO Symphony Orchestra,
with the orchestra and Tess Remy-Schumacher as cello soloist,
Mar. 25, 1999.
Performances
In 1999, Remy-Schumacher played
"Tess" Variations,
for solo cello, at a regional College Music Society meeting
at the UCO, Feb. 20; at the University of Southern California,
in Los Angeles, Feb. 26; at the Region VI Society of Composers,
Inc. meeting at the University of Central Arkansas, in
Conway, Mar. 5; at Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ.,
in Durant, Apr. 15; at an NIE-ESSO Arts Hour Concert in
Singapore, June 9 and 11; at James Cook Univ., in Smithfield,
Australia, June 13; at UCO, Sept. 2; and at the Munster
(Germany) Musikhochschule, Nov. 18. Works heard at UCO
included
Three Poems of Wallace Stevens (1971),
Reflections (1986), and
Vignettes (1991),
with soprano Pamela Richman and the composer at the piano,
and tape compositions
The Green Monkeys (1991)
and
Strange Jazz (1993), all July 9 and Sept. 2;
and
Hong's Song (1997), for solo violin, with Hong
Zhu.
Recordings
Paradise of Children and the Gremlins who Stole it;
Spectrum.
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