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Annual American Composers Update
Karl Korte
Premieres
Karl Korte's Viola Dance was presented by Lila
Brown, viola, and Nina Tichman, piano on a Music from
Salem program, August 14, 2000, repeated August 10,
2001. On November 30, 2001, the New York Treble Singers,
Virginia Davidson, director, introduced Four Songs
of Experience (text by Blake), for women's voices
and piano. Distant Pentachords, in memory of
Samuel Baron, for flute, wind chimes, and digital sound,
was heard first with flutist Thomas Clement at the Kansas
City Festival of Electronic Music, April 29, 2000.
Performances
After the premiere, Distant Pentachords had
performances featuring Judith Bentley, at the 21st annual
New Music and Art Festival at Bowling Green State University,
October 26, 2000; and Linda Green, at the SCI National
Conference at Syracuse University, March 30, 2001. Max
Lifchitz played Wired Dance, for piano and digital sound,
for the North/South Consonance Otto Luening Centennial
program, April 3, 2000, in New York, NY.
Publications
Wired Dance; Distant Pentachords; Viola Dance; Four
Songs of Experience; all by K-note Press.
Recordings
Fantasy (1959), for violin and piano; Mark Peskanov
and Doris Stevenson; Matrix (1968), for woodwind
quintet, piano, saxophone, and percussion; New York
Woodwind Quintet, Elizabeth Korte, Albert Hamme, and
Raymond DesRoches; Five New Zealand Songs (1986),
for soprano and piano; Christine Schadeberg and Christopher
Oldfather; Symmetrics (1973), for saxophone and
percussion; Albert Regni and the University of Texas
Percussion Ensemble, George Frock, conductor; Epigrams
Nos. 1-6 (1992-93), for piano; Stevenson; all on CRI
Karl Korte -a Retrospective CD882.
Further Information
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