William Bolcom

William Bolcom was one of seven judges for the final rounds of the Calgary International Organ Competition in August 2002. During the 2002-03 season, pianist Bolcom and his wife, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, are performing in Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Chelsea, MI; Conway, AR; Greensboro, Brevard, Wingate, and Wilmington, NC; Philadelphia; Newberry, SC; Costa Mesa, CA; and Boston. The Nonesuch Explorer Series album Animals of Africa / Sounds of the Jungle, Plain and Bush, with liner notes by Bolcom, has been re-issued on CD. Lyric Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, with Amy Porter and the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, is scheduled to be released on Equilibrium Records.

Premieres

On April 29, 2002, Naumburg Cycle, seven songs written for baritone Stephen Salters, winner of the 1999 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation competition, was presented by Salters at Alice Tully Hall, in New York, NY. Under James Levine, The Met Orchestra introduced Seventh Symphony: A Symphonic Concerto, May 19, 2002, at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY. Borborygm, an organ work based on sketches by William Albright, premiered July 3, 2002, with Alan Morrison at the American Guild of Organists convention in Philadelphia. In 2003, Medusa, a monodrama for soprano and chamber orchestra which will have its first production March 5 in Evanston, IL, with Catherine Malfitano and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, also will be performed that month in Ann Arbor, MI; in New York's Carnegie Hall; and in Daytona Beach and West Palm Beach, FL.

Performances

On July 19, 2002, at Tanglewood, in Lenox, MA, Malcolm Lowe, concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the composer performed Bolcom's Fourth Violin Sonata and Graceful Ghost Rag; and Sir James Galway soloed in Bolcom's Lyric Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Galway repeated the work at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on July 25, 2002. Bolcom's opera, A View from the Bridge (libretto by Arthur Miller and Arnold Weinstein, based on Miller's play of the same name), was scheduled at The Metropolitan Opera (seven performances), in New York, NY, December 2002; at The Hagen (Germany) Opera (eight performances), the opera's European premiere, February 8-May 2003; and at The Portland (OR) Opera (four performances), March 31-April 5, 2003. Lorin Maazel will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Ragomania in early January 2003. On February 5-6, 2003, The American Composers Festival, sponsored by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, will conclude with Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

Recordings

Concerto-Serenade; Miramar Sinfonietta, Henri B. Pensis, conductor; Albany Records Twentieth Century Contrasts Troy509 CD. Song; University of Michigan Symphony Band, H. Robert Reynolds, conductor; Equilibrium EQ45 CD

The 2003 American Composers Update

William Bolcom

Premieres

Performances

Recordings

Further Information




		The 2003 American Composers Update as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2 William Bolcom William Bolcom was one of seven judges for the final rounds of the Calgary International Organ Competition in August 2002. During the 2002-03 season, pianist Bolcom and his wife, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, are performing in Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Chelsea, MI; Conway, AR; Greensboro, Brevard, Wingate, and Wilmington, NC; Philadelphia; Newberry, SC; Costa Mesa, CA; and Boston. The Nonesuch Explorer Series album Animals of Africa / Sounds of the Jungle, Plain and Bush, with liner notes by Bolcom, has been re-issued on CD. Lyric Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, with Amy Porter and the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, is scheduled to be released on Equilibrium Records. Premieres On April 29, 2002, Naumburg Cycle, seven songs written for baritone Stephen Salters, winner of the 1999 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation competition, was presented by Salters at Alice Tully Hall, in New York, NY. Under James Levine, The Met Orchestra introduced Seventh Symphony: A Symphonic Concerto, May 19, 2002, at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY. Borborygm, an organ work based on sketches by William Albright, premiered July 3, 2002, with Alan Morrison at the American Guild of Organists convention in Philadelphia. In 2003, Medusa, a monodrama for soprano and chamber orchestra which will have its first production March 5 in Evanston, IL, with Catherine Malfitano and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, also will be performed that month in Ann Arbor, MI; in New York's Carnegie Hall; and in Daytona Beach and West Palm Beach, FL. Performances On July 19, 2002, at Tanglewood, in Lenox, MA, Malcolm Lowe, concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the composer performed Bolcom's Fourth Violin Sonata and Graceful Ghost Rag; and Sir James Galway soloed in Bolcom's Lyric Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Galway repeated the work at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on July 25, 2002. Bolcom's opera, A View from the Bridge (libretto by Arthur Miller and Arnold Weinstein, based on Miller's play of the same name), was scheduled at The Metropolitan Opera (seven performances), in New York, NY, December 2002; at The Hagen (Germany) Opera (eight performances), the opera's European premiere, February 8-May 2003; and at The Portland (OR) Opera (four performances), March 31-April 5, 2003. Lorin Maazel will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Ragomania in early January 2003. On February 5-6, 2003, The American Composers Festival, sponsored by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, will conclude with Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Recordings Concerto-Serenade; Miramar Sinfonietta, Henri B. Pensis, conductor; Albany Records Twentieth Century Contrasts Troy509 CD. Song; University of Michigan Symphony Band, H. Robert Reynolds, conductor; Equilibrium EQ45 CD Further Information 2000-2001 American Composers Update 1999-2000 American Composers Update SAI's Composers Bureau Online. SAI's Music for Young People section
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