Joelle Wallach has written the following new works:
The Dream of Now, six reflective songs for
low voice and piano (17 minutes); Why The Caged
Bird Sings, for treble choir, horn and piano
(8 minutes); A Camel Lying on My Heart, a
cycle of six songs of personal exile for high voice
and piano, based on the anonymous poetry of illiterate
women from Yemen and the West Bank (11 minutes);
Seven Soliloquies of Small Birds, a set of
avian ensemble games for clarinet, piano, percussion,
and cello (8-1/2 minutes); and Moonlight in the
Woods and Vacant Cities, for chamber
orchestra (11 minutes).
Premieres
The Muir String Quartet presented String Quartet
(1999) at an Arizona Friends of Chamber Music program
in Tucson, April 4, 2001. On April 25, 2001, The
Joy in Singing gave the first performance of From
the Almanac of Last Things, in Merkin Hall in
New York, NY, April 25, 2001. The Lumina String
Quartet gave the New York premiere of String
Quartet (1995) at the Kosciusko Foundation,
February 13, 2001. The American Chamber Ensemble
will introduce Sextet for Piano and Winds,
April 14, 2002. On April 25, 2001 in New York, the
Greenwich House Concert Series included the premiere
of A Revisitation of Myth, for piano, viola,
and voice.
Recordings
String Quartet (1986); String Quartet
(1995); String Quartet (1999); Shadow, Sighs and
Songs of Longing, rhapsody for cello and orchestra;
with the Meridian Quartet, the Philadelphia Quartet,
and the National Slovak Radio Orchestra, Joel Suben,
conductor, and Robert DeMaine, cello; Capstone Records
Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing CPS-8689.
Up into the Silence, for unaccompanied tenor;
Capstone Records CPS-8636. Up into the Silence,
for unaccompanied mezzo-soprano; Mira Zakai; IMA
Recordings.
