SAI member Diane Thome serves as Professor
at the University of Washington School of Music. In
1997 she was an invited speaker at the 23rd National
Conference of the
Sonneck
Society for American Music, in Seattle (Mar. 6),
and she had a one-day residency at the University of
Michigan (Mar. 27). Her works received positive reviews
in the 1997
Computer Music Journal, the February
1997
Women of Note Quarterly, the Winter 1996
ICMA Array Journal, the Winter 1996
Fanfare
Magazine, and the Winter/Spring 1997
The Alberta
New Music Review.
In 1997
The Palaces of Memory,
for chamber orchestra and tape, was heard at California
State University, Stanislaus, under James Klein (Apr.
20); at the Women in Music Conference held at Ohio University,
in Athens, under Kimo Furomoto (Oct. 25); at The
College
Music Society National Convention, at the Cleveland
(OH) Institute of Music, under Richard Niezen (Nov.
14); and with the Tacoma (WA) Symphony Orchestra, under
Harvey Felder (Nov. 14).
Levadi (Alone), for
soprano and tape, had 1997 performances at the Tacoma
Art Museum, with Virginia Voulgaris (Feb. 6); and at
Hong Kong Baptist University (May 5).
Unseen Buds,
for choir and tape, received 1997 performances with
the Edmonds Community College Symphonic Choir, conducted
by Richard Asher, in Lynnwood, WA (Feb. 11); and at
the Seattle First Baptist Church (Mar. 9). In 1997 Thome's
soundscape
Masks of Eternity was produced at
the Brooklyn (NY) College Art Gallery (Feb. 25 and Mar.
21); and at the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival,
held at the University of Florida, in Gainesville (Apr.
12).
Ringing, Stillness, Pearl Light, for piano
and tape, was played by Lorna Eder at the Pacific Contemporary
Music Center Festival, held at California State University,
in Los Angeles, Apr. 5, 1997; and by Nannette Butler
Shannon at the Contemporary Music Forum held at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Apr. 10, 1997.
