Annual American Composers Update
Sondra Clark
Sondra Clark, retired from university teaching and music
criticism, works out of her home studio. Her compositions
Feline and
3 + 3 + 4 won awards in the 1998
California Composers Today Contest.
Premieres
At a National Composers Association concert at the Palo
Alto (CA) Cultural Center Auditorium, June 15, 1998, soprano
Kathleen Nitz, clarinettist Michael Kimbell, and pianist
Jeana Ogren presented
Feline.
3 + 3 + 4
premiered in Los Angeles at the 1998 California Music
Teachers Convention, July 5, 1998. Duo-pianists Clark
and Marsha Rocklin introduced
Pentatempto Waltz
at the Palo Alto Music Teachers Program in Mountain View,
CA, Sept. 8, 1998.
Performances
At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, soprano Emily
Wallace and pianist David Collins performed
Spring
Again, Apr. 24, 1998. Marilyn Tanner and Bobbie Cronquist
presented
Summer Lake at the Evergreen Valley Methodist
Church in San Jose, CA, Aug. 9, 1998. Italy's Ascoli Picena
Festival included the song cycle
Seasons of Love,
with mezzo-soprano Helene Joseph-Weil, violinist Melina
Mandozzi, cellist Giovanni Ricciardi, and pianist Andrea
Dindo, July 17 and 19. On July 6, 1998,
Three Scenes
from New Orleans (Neil A. Kjos) was on the program
of the 1998 MTAC Convention's
Neil
A. Kjos Music showcase, with duo-pianists Clark and
Gail Lew, in Los Angeles.
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