Annual American Composers Update
Jack Gottlieb
Jack Gottlieb is a New York, NY resident. Recent articles
that mentioned him appeared in "In Yiddish Music, A Return
to Torment and Joy," in the Sunday
New York Times;
and a column about his 1965 recording of the Avery Fisher
Hall pre-concert and intermission tone-row chimes, in
the Sept.-Oct. New York Philharmonic
Stagebill.
In 1998, he wrote "Leonard Bernstein's Late-Night Thoughts
on Mahler," for the New York Philharmonic 12-CD edition
of Mahler Broadcasts (Oct.); "Jack's Pix," on the Bernstein
America On-Line network site (Oct.); and "That Table",
for the Bernstein Newsletter
Prelude, Fugue & Riffs
(Fall issue). The PBS "American Masters" program about
Bernstein, Oct. 28, 1998, includes a statement by Gottlieb.
On Nov. 13-14, 1998, the Smithsonian Institution hosted
several Bernstein discussions, with Gottlieb as one of
the panelists. The third (80th-birthday year) edition
of the Bernstein catalog (known as the
Red Book),
edited by Gottlieb, was released in Oct. 1998.
Sessionals
for Brass Quintet (a processional and recessional)
was written for and performed at a wedding by the Philip
Sasson Brass Quintet, in Dobbs Ferry, NY, Oct. 10, 1998.
Premieres
On Sept. 30, 1998, Thomas Rutishauser presented
Fantasy
on High Holy Day Themes, for solo cello, at Congregation
Emanu-El, in Rye, NY.
Yes is a pleasant country
(a song cycle on poems of e. e. cummings) written for
the Hebrew Union College School of Sacred Music Jubilee
concert, was premiered there by tenor Steven Pearlston
and pianist Joyce Rosenzwieg, in New York, NY, Nov. 22,
1998. Amy Ziegelbaum, flute, and Laura Leon-Cohen, piano,
introduced
Letting Go, a vocalise for flute and
piano, at the Huntington (NY) Public Library, Dec. 13,
1998. On Dec. 13 and 20, 1998,
Monkey Biz'nis,
a musical diversion in one act, received its first production
with cast Wallace Norman, Joel Briel, and Steven Sterner,
accompanied by Jeremie Michael, piano, and Mark Hartman,
synthesizer, directed by Michael Schiralli, at the Don't
Tell Mama cabaret, New York, NY.
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