Annual American Composers Update

Jeanne Singer has a home studio in Manhasset, NY. She received her 19th consecutive annual ASCAP award. In 1997 she won two grants from Meet the Composer: one for a Long Island Composers Alliance concert at the Hicksville (NY) Library (Mar. 2.), and one for a Musinger Player's concert sponsored by the NLAPW at the Pen & Brush Gallery, New York, NY, featuring five of her works (Mar. 16).

Avenue of the Righteous -- Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, for voice, violin, and piano, premiered at The NLAPW program with tenor Austin Miskell, Anne Yarrow, and Singer, followed by performances at the Douglaston, NY Tuesday Morning Music Club, with Miskell, Hiroko Nakahra, and Singer (Apr. 22); at Great Neck (NY) House (Oct. 26); and at the Locust Valley (NY) Library (Nov. 2).

In 1997 Miskell and Singer performed Time Tells (three humorous songs on aging) on a National Association of Composers USA concert at Christ and St. Stephens Church, New York, NY (Feb. 25); at an NLAPW program at the Pen & Brush Gallery, in New York (Mar. 16, 1997); and at Musinger Players concerts at Great Neck (NY) House (Oct. 26) and at the Locust Valley (NY) Library (Nov. 2). Composers' Prayer, for SSA choir and piano, was presented by the Barnard/Columbia Chamber Singers, under Gail Archer, at Barnard College, for a Celebration of Women Composers concert, Feb. 28, 1997. Heard on 1997 Long Island Composers Alliance programs were A Cycle of Love (four songs), with Helene Williams, soprano, and Leonard Lehrman, piano, at the Hicksville (NY) Library (Mar. 2); and Canzonet, with Caru Hayes, oboe, and Kaye Bassen, piano, at Chelsea Center, East Norwich, NY (Mar. 21). Sören Hermansson and Erica Goodman played Suite for Horn and Harp at the Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC, co-sponsored by the Swedish Embassy, June 18, 1997.

Suite for Horn and Harp (four movements); Hermansson and Goodman; Bis CD - 793.

For more complete information, see Jeanne Singer's entry in our Composers Bureau Online.