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 a heads-up for 2015
June 6th marks the 98th birthday anniversary of Vincent Persichetti, which means that in 2015, we’ll be celebrating his centenary. Join the celebration by performing works from his extensive œuvre, which includes works in all genres, so there’s something for everybody. We invite you to visit his page in our Composer Gallery; many of his scores are available for viewing online through his composer page or on the Rental Catalog page). |
Theodore Presser is pleased to announce the signing of several works by two composers new to the Presser catalogue.
 Lauren Bernofsky’s works include Abendstern, a short work for string orchestra (for sale), and Three Portraits of a Witch, (ideal for Hallowe’en programming!).
 Orchestral works from Roger Zare, include the multi-award-winning Green Flash.
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  Congratulations to Martin Kennedy (Trivial Pursuits for violin and piano), and Justin Dello Joio (Due per Due for cello and piano,published by E.B. Marks), winners of the Suzanne & Lee Ettelson Composers Award competition from Composers Inc. |
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In May, Gerald Levinson traveled to Paris for the premiere of Au cœur de l’infini, written for Olivier Latry, titular organist of Notre Dame Cathedral. Levinson and Latry first worked together in 2006, when Levinson was commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra to write a work for organ and orchestra (Toward Light) to celebrate the inauguration of the new organ in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center.
 About Au cœur de l’infini, Levinson writes: “The piece was conceived with the gigantic reverberant space of Notre Dame in mind, which is reflected in the title and in the frequent long pauses intended to be filled with resonances.” It premiered at Notre Dame on May 28th, after which Latry performed it the following week in Germany and Switzerland, with plans to continue performing it in his touring repertoire.
The crowd is lined up to go to the concert.
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Stephen Jaffe was in Lithuania in May, as one of the judges in the Juventus 2013 International Choral Competition. He also gave talks at Kaunas University of Technology and the Lithuanian Composers' Union in Vilnius on "Reflections on New Media, the Orchestra, and the Documentary Impulse" focusing in particular on his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and Cíthara mea (Evocations): Spanish Music Notebook for Orchestra, a collaboration with the German photographer Thomas Struth as presented by the North Carolina Symphony in 2008.
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Samuel Adler and Robert Maggio! |
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At the ASCAP Concert Music Awards in New York in May, Michael Gilbertson and Douglas Buchanan received Morton Gould Young Composer Awards; and Jon Deak was awarded the Arnold Broido Award “in celebration of his 70th year and for his distinguished contribution to American music as composer, bassist and champion educator.” [Note: Arnold Broido was the long-time President, then Chairman of the Theodore Presser Company, until his death in 2007].
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residencies galore…
David Felder resumes his role as Artistic Director of the June in Buffalo festival (the Buffalo Philharmonic performs Linebacker Music), while Sydney Hodkinson and Steven Stucky head to Aspen Music Festival and School, where they both serve on the composition faculty, and Hodkinson also directs the Contemporary Ensemble. Performances include Hodkinson’s Potpourri and Chaconne in B-Flat, and Stucky’s Symphony.
Daniel S. Godfrey is in residence at the Seal Bay Festival in Maine; and Jason Eckardt is in residence at New Music on the Point at Lake Dunmore in Leicester, Vermont (performances include Dithyramb and A way [tracing]).
After a stint as Guest Composer at the Beijing Modern Music Festival at the end of May, Chen Yi travels to the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu to give lectures and masterclasses as Guest Professor (17th- 21st).
Huang Ruo is Composer in Residence at the 14th Festival of New Music in Bamberg, which takes place June 1st – 8th in Germany. Performances include Mo for sheng and chamber ensemble, Divergence (for five players), and To the Four Corners, a multi-media drama for visual art and five staged musicians. The PBS film “I. M. Pei, Building China Modern”, for which Huang Ruo wrote the soundtrack, will also be shown.
Robert Maggio is the Commissioned Composer for the 2013 Pennsylvania Music Teacher’s Association annual conference, which takes place at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Stephanie Caulder, oboe, and Henry Wong Doe, piano, give the premiere of where you end and I begin on June 7th. Looking ahead to August, another new work, Triangle Trade, will premiere at the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts, with Makoto Nakura, marimba, Plum Island Pans (steel drum quartet) and Ensemble Epomeo (string quartet).
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| recently released cd |
Ricky Ian Gordon: Rappahannock County
Libretto by Mark Campbell
“Rappahannock County”
NAXOS AMERICA OPERA CLASSICS 8.669028-29
(2-CD set)
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