Annual American Composers Update

Adrienne Elisha

Adrienne Elisha's Cry of the Dove, for solo cello, was reviewed by Harris Goldsmith in the Fall 1997 New York Concert Review. Passages, with the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, under David Lockington, was broadcast on Radio Warsaw (Poland) in October 1996 and again in May 1997. In Aug. 1997, the Music Teachers National Association (NMTA) named her the Ohio composer of the year.

Premieres

As part of the Ohio Composer of the Year Award, the NMTA commissioned Harrier, for viola, cello, and bass viol, which premiered Oct. 6, 1997 in Toledo. Steven Elisha presented Cadenza (Cry of the Dove), for solo cello Oct. 23, 1997, in Weill Recital Hall, New York, NY. Commissioned by the Fortnightly Music Club of Cleveland (OH), Quintet, for English horn, bass clarinet, bass viol, Dilling harp, and piano, was heard first at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Feb. 4, 1997.