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Annual American Composers Update
John Anthony Lennon
John Anthony Lennon, on the faculty of Emory University,
in Atlanta, GA, is the recipient of the Guggenheim,
Prix de Rome, and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
(DAAD) scholarships. He has been a fellow at Tanglewood,
the Yaddo, MacDowell, Villa Montalvo Colonies, the Ives
Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Composers
Conference, Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, and the
Cameryo Foundation in France. He has received awards
from the American Academy and the Institute of Arts
and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts, the
American Composers Alliance, the Friedheim Awards, and
others. The Library of Congress, the Fromm Foundation,
the John F. Kennedy Center, and the Boston Symphony
Chamber Players, among others, have commissioned his
compositions. Lennon is published by E. C. Schirmer,
C. F. Peters, Mel Bay, Woodwind Services, Columbia University
Press, and Oxford University Press. He has recorded
on CRI, Bridge Records, the Society of Composers, Capstone,
and MMC labels. In 2000, Lennon had residencies at the
Tyrone Gutherie Centre at Annamaghkerrig, Ireland (August);
and, sponsored by the Bogliasco Foundation, at the Liuguria
Study Center, Italy, November 15-December 18.
Premieres
In Atlanta, GA, When Angels Pass, for piano,
violin, viola, and cello, was commissioned and presented
by the National Federation of Music Clubs, May 2001.
Debra Richtmeyer premiered a work for soprano saxophone,
cello, and harp in Dayton, OH, at the February 2001
Regional Saxophone Congress. At the International Guitar
Festival in Mexico City, David Tanenbaum introduced
a triology of guitar works, March 2001.
Performances
In 2000, the saxophone work Aeterna (1996) was
heard with John Sampen, on tour at the Musik-Akademie
der Stadt Basel Musikhochschule, May 26, and at the
Fermo (Italy) Conservatory, May 30; and with Susan Fancher,
at a SUNY Buffalo faculty recital, February 22. Flutist
Jayn Rosenfeld played Echolalia (1985) at a Nederlands
Fluit Genootschap program, at the Buiksloterkerk, in
The Netherlands, September 13, 1999.
Publications
Gigolo, Sonatina, and the Fortunels set
(Forbidden Dances, As She Sings, and Sacred
Idylls); all for guitar; Roseanne Music.
Recordings
Sonatina, for guitar; Benjamin Verdery; Yale
University Soepa CD.
Further Information
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