Annual American Composers Update
Annetta Hamilton Rosser
SAI Patroness Annetta Hamilton Rosser makes her home in
Madison, WI. In 1998, she chaired the music committee
for the Madison Symphony Orchestra League's Symphony Designer
Showhouse (Oct.) and the Madison Art Center's Holiday
Art Fair (Nov.). A concert of her works was performed
for the dedication of a Baldwin grand piano given to Christ
Presbyterian Church in memory of her husband, Prof. J.
Barkley Rosser. On Sept. 24, 1998, an article about her
appeared in the Madison newspaper
The Capital Times.
The composer's 85th birthday was celebrated by friends
in Madison and family in Washington, DC. An hour of her
music was aired over Madison radio station WORT, Sept.
1, 1998, by Kasper Sunn in her Women Composers series,
with tapes of programs from Madison, including concerts
at La Creperie, Wisconsin Public Radio, the Federation
of Music Clubs, the Elvehjem Museum, Christ Presbyterian
Church, and the University of Wisconsin. At a memorial
service in Ames, IA, Peggy Fadden sang
Afternoon on
a Hill and
Miracle, accompanied by Joe Weber.
Performances
On Sept. 27, 1998, a concert of Rosser's music at Christ
Presbyterian Church included
Nocturne and
Meditation,
both with violinist Tyrone Greive;
Lullaby for an April
Baby, with violinist Lola Yde;
London Town
and I
Never Saw a Moor, with soprano Joanne Robinson;
A Song of the Virgin Mother and
This World is
not Conclusion, with mezzo-soprano Kathleen Otterson;
How Do I Love Thee? and
Loveliest of Trees,
with tenor Chris Ryan;
My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken
Me?, with bass Aaron Schauer;
Behold thy Mother,
with Robinson and Otterson; and
Into Thy Hands,
with Ryan and Schauer, all accompanied by Ellen Burmeister,
Margaret Hadley, Marguerite Rietveld, John Rafoth, and
Susan Udell.
Meditations on the Cross was performed
on Apr. 29, 1998 in Fairfield Glade, TN by Jane Horswill,
soprano; Coleen Bacon, violin; and Barbara Heeschen, piano.
Otterson and flutist Patricia Hoesly presented
Six
Songs of the T'ang Dynasty, Jan. 27, 1998 at the Euterpe
Club in Madison. On Dec. 28, 1997, organist Marlys Mittelstadt
played
Holy Innocents at St. John's Lutheran Church
in Madison.
Publications
An Offering of Song; 21 songs for medium to high
voice; Gilbert Publications, July 1998.
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