Annual American Composers Update

Ronald R. Williams

Premieres

Ronald R. Williams' What Lips my Lips have Kissed (text by Millay), winner of the Second Diana Barnhart American Song Competition (1999), was introduced by Barnhart, soprano, and Jeff Nations, piano, October 22, 1999, at Christ and St. Stephen Episcopal Church, in New York, NY. Also in October 1999, Ann Owen and Williams premiered Sonata for Clarinet and Piano at the University of Nevada, in Reno.

Recordings

Suite of Six English Texts, for high voice and string quartet; University of Nevada Patterns CD. Inversnaid, for voice and piano; University of Maine An Evening with Gerard Manley Hopkins.