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Annual American Composers Update

Diane Thome**

Premieres

On March 16, 2001, The Palaces of Memory, by Diane Thome, for chamber orchestra and tape, was introduced by the Olympia (WA) Chamber Orchestra, Arun Chandra, Music Director and Conductor. Through Amber, commissioned for clarinet and computer-realized sound, was premiered by clarinetist Karl Herman as part of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series, March 18, 2001, in Newark.


Performances

In 2000, Bright Air/Brilliant Fire, for flute and computer-realized sound, was heard at the College Music Society National Convention, in Toronto, with Katherine Kemler, flute and alto flute, November 4; and on the Washington Square Contemporary Music Series, in Merkin Hall, New York, NY, with Jayn Rosenfeld, flute and alto flute, December 12. Dorothy Shapiro and the Northwest Symphony Orchestra gave a performance of Like a Seated Swan, for viola and computer-realized sound, November 18, 2000, in Seattle, WA. On April 29, 2001, Ann Cummings played Ringing, Stillness, Pearl Light, for piano and tape, at the Vancouver (BC) East Cultural Center.


Recordings

Bright Air/Brilliant Fire; Centaur Records CD, September 2001.

**Sigma Alpha Iota Laureate Member


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