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Annual American Composers Update
Jeffrey Hoover
Jeffrey Hoover continues to work as a traditional composer,
and in combining his music with the visual arts. He
was a guest composer and visual artist for the American
New Arts Festival at the University of Akron (OH), April
18-20, 2001, where he created an action painting on
stage while his electronic composition Oaxaca
was playing. During the residency, Hoover also worked
with theory and composition students at the University
of Akron, and with art students at Cuyahoga Falls High
School. At the Society of Composers national conference
in Syracuse, NY, he gave a presentation directed to
composers on "Eliminating Barriers to Composition,"
using a composer's log, creative weekly plan, composer's
portfolio, and continued learning.
Premieres
A New Music Today program in East Peoria, IL featured
Esther Lamneck in the premiere of Jerusalem,
for clarinet and tape, April 6, 2001. Heard first in
2001 at Illinois Central College were With Eagles Wings,
for soprano saxophone, cello, and piano, with Hoover,
Sam Fan, and Brenda Conroy, March 25, 2001; and Tapestry,
for concert band, with the Prairie Wind Ensemble, Donald
Lewellyn, director, October 14. Marcia Henry presented
Chiaroscuro, for solo violin, October 14, 2001,
at Bradley University.
Performances
On December 2, 2001, Chiaroscuro aired on a
WFMT Chicago program of 20th-century unaccompanied violin
works, performed by Rachel Barton
Further Information
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