Annual American Composers Update

SAI Friend of the Arts Robert Washburn serves on the faculty of the Crane School of Music, SUNY College at Potsdam. In April 1997 he made a musical odyssey in China. He has completed a portion of a music textbook under contract with Harcourt-Brace. In July 1997 he was guest conductor at the Oxford Music Camp.

Insalata Musicale (A Musical Italian Salad) was heard first at the Baltimore MENC conference, April 1997.

The Crane Concert Band, led by Scott LaVine, presented Connecticut Valley Festival Overture at SUNY College at Potsdam, May 1997. Daniel Culver conducted the Lake Placid Sinfonietta in Five Adirondack Sketches, July 1997. Conducted by the composer, the NYSSMA Summer Orchestra performed Six Works for String Orchestra in Rochester, NY, August 1997. The Chamber Orchestra of Northern New York, under Kenneth Andrews, played Three Pieces for Orchestra, November 1997. The Suffolk All-County Band, Washburn conducting, performed Kilimanjaro, Ode for Band in Northport, NY, November 1997.

For more complete information, see Robert Washburn's entry in our Composers Bureau Online.