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Annual American Composers Update
Allen Brings
Allen Brings is Professor of Music at the Aaron Copland
School of Music at Queens College of the City University
of New York and a co-director of the Weston (CT) Music
Center and School of the Performing Arts.
Premieres
On November 13, 2000, Duologue 3, for clarinet
and piano, was presented by Esther Lamneck and Rosemary
Caviglia in New York, NY. The Long Island Composers
Alliance concert at Queens College, April 19, 2001,
included the premiere of Duologue 5, for clarinet
and cello, with Dennis Joseph and Katherine Cherbas.
Performances
In Wattwil, Switzerland, Passacaglia, Interlude
and Fugue, for piano, four-hands, was played by
Brings and Genevieve Chinn June 10 and 13, 2001. Alexander
Kouguell and Brings performed Sonata after Vivaldi,
for cello and piano, in New York, NY, March 19, 2001;
at Queens College, October 12, 2000; and in Storrs,
CT, October 15, 2000. Three Fantasies, for saxophone
quartet, was heard with the Red Stick Quartet in Baton
Rouge, LA, October 27 and December 12, 2000, and in
Toronto, Canada, November 3, 2000; and with the New
Hudson Quartet at the C. W. Post campus of Long Island
University, January 31, 2001, and at Queens College,
February 26, 2001. Produced by Vienna Modern Masters
in Olomouc, the Czech Republic, on June 24, 2001, the
Sixth International Festival of New Music for Orchestra
included Scherzi musicali, with the Moravian
Philharmonic Orchestra under Toshiyuki Shimada. Sonata,
for clarinet and piano, was presented by Edward Gilmore
and Brings at the Bushnell in Hartford, CT, May 13,
2001.
Publications
Duologue 6; xylophone and timpani; Seesaw Music
Corp. Duologue 7; violin and piano; Concerto
da camera No. 5; piano and symphonic wind ensemble;
Ten Conceits; piano; all by Mira Music Associates
Recordings
Three Fantasies; the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet;
Arizona University Recordings AUR CD 3115.
Further Information
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