Annual American Composers Update
Elizabeth Lauer
Elizabeth Lauer has been informed
by the Renée Fisher Foundation that she has been
chosen to compose the required junior-level piece for
the organization's 2001 piano competition. The commission
includes a cash award ($1,000), and Lauer will participate
with the panel of judges in choosing the prizewinning
performance of her work. On Jan. 10, 2000, she gave a
talk entitled "The Music Business and the Business of
Music," to the Professional Women's Collective, a Fairfield
County (CT) group. For the fourth consecutive year, she
has been engaged for the spring and summer of 2000 to
serve as program annotator for the eight-concert spring/summer
series of chamber music programs sponsored by South Shore
Music, Inc., of Westport, CT. On Mar. 20, 2000, Lauer
gave a piano recital at the Donnell Library, in New York,
NY, including her own works as well as compositions by
Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, and Granados.
Premieres
Quatorze Miniminiscules Faciles, 14 10-second pieces
for flute, clarinet, cello, and piano, were presented
on two concerts in Lunel, France by the Ensemble Décadanse
on May 23, 2000.
Performances
Pianist Margaret Mills gave the New York premiere of
A
Bouquet of Bagatelles, Dec. 7, 1999 at Weill Hall,
New York, NY and then performed the work at New York's
St. Stephen's Church, on a program organized by the American
Composers Alliance, May 23, 2000; and on her June 2000
tour of China. At Lauer's Donnell Library piano recital,
she played
Magnolia and
Fleur de Lou, two
of her
Five Flower Rags.
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