Annual American Composers Update

In May 2000, SAI Patroness Marilyn Shrude received a fellowship to the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. She was the Featured Guest Composer at the Texas Tech University festival, A Celebration of New Music, Apr. 4-6, 2000, with Teresa LeVelle, Festival Director.

On July 4, 2000, organist Emma Lou Diemer introduced Four Chorale Preludes at the Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva, in Rome. Face of the Moon, for alto saxophone and guitar, premiered with The Ryoanji Duo at the 12th World Saxophone Congress, held July 6, 2000 in Montreal.

Notturno: In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu, for violin, alto saxophone, and piano, was heard with Maria Sampen, John Sampen, and Shrude at the North American Saxophone Alliance New Millennium Conference, in Tucson, AZ, Mar. 7, 2000; and with Movses Pogossian, John Sampen, and Shrude, at the Yerevan (Armenia) Third International Music Festival, Sept. 30, 1999. In 2000, John Sampen played Visions in Metaphor, for alto saxophone, at the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel (Switzerland), May 26; and at the Fermo (Italy) Conservatory, May 30. Continuum: Postscript '97, for alto saxophone and piano, was performed by Joseph Murphy and Nancy Boston at Mansfield (PA) University, Dec. 5, 1999. The Texas Tech University festival, A Celebration of New Music, included I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, with the festival choir, Michael Marcades, conductor; Notturno: In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu, with Mark Menzies, violin; David Dees, saxophone; and Shrude, piano; and Interior Spaces, with Paul Sharpe, bass viol, and the composer at the piano.

Shadows and Dawning, for soprano saxophone and piano; Isabelle Lapierre and Andre Sebastien Savoie; ATMA Classique Montreal Paris Chicago ACD 22154.

• 1998-1999 American Composers Update