Annual American Composers Update

Klaus George Roy lives in Cleveland Heights, OH. For the 1997-98 season, he is giving six illustrated lectures at the Cleveland Museum of Art, entitled "Image into Sound -- the Composer Hears a Painting."

In 1997 Still Pond, Op. 137, for speaker and piano, was heard first, with baritone Andrew White and pianist Nancy Brittain, at Judson Manor, Cleveland (July 15), and the Cleveland Music School Settlement (July 20).

On the same programs, White and Brittain presented six of Roy's songs and song cycles. St. Francis' Canticle of the Sun, Op. 17, was heard at the Old Stone Church, in Cleveland, conducted by Warren Scharf, with violist Marcia Ferrito, Apr. 18, 1997. Richard Weiss, cello, and Joela Jones, piano, played Recitative, Elegy, and Joyous Coda, Op. 89, at the Cleveland Institute of Music, July 9, 1997. In St. Stephan's Cathedral, in Vienna, Austria, organist Karel Paukert performed Inaugural Fantasia, Op. 54, July 16, 1997.

Half a Dozen Edible Rounds; three-part choir; Lawson Gould Music Publishers, July 1997.