SAI Friend of the Arts Dan Locklair was in Kansas
City, MO, July 2001, as guest composer at the Summerfest
Chamber Music Festival, in an interview on NPR station
KANU-FM, and as a speaker at the Heartland Chamber
Music Camp. Reviewing a Summerfest concert for The
Kansas City Star, Mickey Coalwell wrote, "Reynolda
Reflections is an impressive achievement."
Locklair gave masterclasses on his choral and organ
music, January 2001, at Indiana University, in Bloomington.
In 2001, he presented all-Locklair organ concerts
at the Chicago International Organ Festival (February);
the Organ Historical Society National Convention,
in Winston-Salem, NC (June); and Wake Forest University,
in Winston-Salem (September). He was the featured
composer on a May 2001 North Carolina Museum of Art
WUNC-FM Public Radio program in Raleigh, aired over
the radio and the Internet in July 2001. He received
his 21st consecutive ASCAP Award. In 2001, articles
about him appeared in the British magazine The
Organ (January) and in 21st Century Music
(August). Locklair holds a commission from a consortium
of American orchestras headed by the Louisville Orchestra
for Symphony No. 1 ("Symphony of Seasons").
He is managed by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting in
New York.
Premieres
In December 2000 at the Metropolitan Church, in Toronto,
Gloria, for SSAATTBB choir, brass octet, and
percussion, received its Canadian Premiere from the
United Amadeus Choir, Lydia Adams, Artistic Director.
The 2001 Chicago International Organ Festival commissioned
Fanfare to open the festival, February 2001
with Locklair at the organ. In 2001, Freedom
(text by Maya Angelou) was given its first performances
by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, which commissioned
the piece, Barry Oliver, Artistic Director, at Lisner
Auditorium, in Washington, DC (March); at Symphony
Hall, in Boston, MA (March); and at Carnegie Hall,
in New York, NY (April). The Carolina Chamber Chorale,
Timothy Koch, conductor, commissioned and presented
A DuBose Heyward Triptych, for a cappella SSSAATTBB
choir and soloists, at the 2001 Piccolo Spoleto USA,
June 2001 in Charleston, SC. At the Summerfest festival,
July 2001, festival musicians gave Reynolda Reflections,
for flute, cello and piano, its Midwestern debut.
Te Deum Laudamus, for SATB choir, soloists,
and organ, was introduced at a St. Paul's Chamber
Music Society concert of his works, May 2001, with
the St. Paul's Choir, guest conductor Locklair, and
organist Robert Brewer, at St. Paul's United Methodist
Church, in Houston.
Performances
The Houston program also included Reynolda Reflections,
with Melissa Suhr, Steve Estes, Robert Brewer; Brief
Mass, for SSAATTBB a cappella choir, with
the St. Paul's Choir; and organ works from Windows
of Comfort, Organbook I and Rubrics, with
Marilyn Keiser. In June 2001, Brief Mass was
performed by the Swiss choral ensemble Vocapella,
in St. Laurentius, Bülach; at the Liebfrauenkirche
in Zürich; at the Peterskirche in Basel; and
at St. Anton in Pratteln; and by the Vocal Arts Ensemble
of Durham, NC, Rodney Wynkoop, conductor, on a May
2001 North Carolina Museum of Art program, in Raleigh,
NC, and June 2001 at the Duke Chapel, in Durham. Gloria
was on a Choral Art Society of Portland (ME) program,
led by Robert Russell, July 2001, at the American
Guild of Organists 2001 Region I Convention. Organist
John E. Mitchener played Windows of Comfort
excerpts, July 2001 in Poland, at the Miedzynarodowy
Festival.
Publications
Reynolda Reflections; Fanfare; From the Mountains;
song cycle in three movements for high voice and piano;
A Pilgrim's Lot; concert piece for band; Pater
Noster and O Sacrum Convivium; both motets
for a cappella SATB choir; all by Subito Music
Corp. (Theodore Presser).
Recordings
Ayre for the Dance, for organ; AGO National
Competition Winner, Ji-yoen Choi; Naxos Records, October
2001.
