Annual American Composers Update
Allen Brings
Allen Brings is Professor of Music at the Aaron Copland
School of Music, Queens College,(CUNY). At a program presented
by the Long Island Composers Alliance for the Association
of Piano Teachers of Long Island, in Garden City, NY,
Leonard Lehrman played
Four Graded Pieces for Younger
Pianists, Feb. 19, 1997.
Performances
The Rialto Brass Quintet presented Brings's
Brass Quintet
at The College Music Society annual meeting, in Atlanta,
GA, October 26, 1996. In 1996
Five Bagatelles,
for four woodwinds and piano, was performed at Iowa State
University by music students at a Depanment of Music program
(October 20) and at the C. Buell Lipa Festival of Contemporary
Music (Oct. 25). Movements from
A Herrick Suite,
for SATB choir and piano, were heard at Long Island Composers
Alliance events, first at C. W. Post Coll. of Long Island
University, with the Long Island University Chamber Singers,
conducted by Alexander Dashnaw, Nov. 13, 1996; and then
with the Nassau Community College Madrigal Choir, led
by James John, Apr. 13, 1997. A National Association of
Composers/USA concert included
Sonata da Chiesa,
for solo cello, with Alexander Kouguell, in New York,
NY, Mar. 11,1997.
Publications
Caprice, oboe and piano;
The Lament of Rachel,
SATB chamber choir and piano four-hands; both by Mira
Music Associates.
Five Hymn Flourishes, brass quartet
and optional timpani or organ; Schaffner Limited Editions.
Recordings
Fantaisie, for flute and harp;
Fantasy Piece,
for piano, four-hands;
Chimeric Fantasy, for alto
saxophone, cello, and piano;
Sonata da Chiesa,
for solo cello;
Trio, for violin, viola, and cello;
all on
Capstone
Records CPS-8644 CD.
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