Annual American Composers Update
Meyer Kupferman
Meyer Kupferman lives and composes mostly in Rhinebeck,
NY. He is conducting the Orchestra Philharmonic de Monte
Carlo (Monaco) for a recording of
Winter Symphony
and
Concerto Brevis.
Premieres
In May 1998, David Starobin, the Manhattan School Guitar
Quartet, and the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra,
Glen Cortese, conductor, premiered
Concerto for Four
Guitars and Orchestra. Laurel Ann Maurer soloed with
the National Flute Asociation Orchestra, under Tim Russel,
in the first performance of
Concerto Brevis, Aug.
1998. In Apr. 1998 in Salt Lake City, the Utah Chamber
Society Trio presented
O North Star, for flute,
clarinet, and piano.
Superclarinet Who?, a monodrama
in five acts, was produced first at the Theatre Works
New Theatre in New Milford, CT, featuring Dawn Whaley,
Sept. 19, 1997. Conducted by Mendaugas Piecaitaus, the
Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra introduced
Symphonic
Odyssey for Orchestra, Quasar Symphony, Aug. 4, 1997
in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Performances
The Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, under Piecaitaus,
also played
Sound Phantoms No. 8. The Cygnus Ensemble
presented
New Space, for violin, oboe, and guitar,
May 1998 in Stockton, NJ. At an Athens, Greece performance,
guitarist Roberto Limon presented
Mercury, June
1998.
Publications
Concertino Saggittarius; guitar and orchestra;
O North Star; flute, clarinet, piano;
Concerto
Brevis; flute and orchestra;
Concerto for Four
Guitars and Orchestra; Winter Symphony; Percussion Symphony;
all by Soundspells Productions.
Recordings
Symphonic Odyssey, Quasar Symphony, Sound Phantoms
No. 8; all with the Lithuanian State Symphony;
Concerto
for Four Guitars and Orchestra; Manhattan School of
Music Orchestra;
Echoes from Barcelona, for guitar;
William Anderson;
Exordium, for guitar and piano;
Anderson and Joan Forsyth;
Poetics No. 3, for two
guitars; Anderson and Oren Fader;
Fantasy Concerto
for Violin and Orchestra; Sonata Guernica, for violin
and piano;
Three Faces of Electra; Tunnels of Love,
a jazz clarinet concerto; all by Soundspells Productions.
Arcana I, for solo flute; Maurer; 4-Tay Recordings.
