Mother's Day Mass, on  May 13, 2012, 11 AM service, to be celebrated with a solemn choral Mass at St. John's Episcopal Church in Park Slope, with Cryder Bankes, music director. Sunday's service will feature original music by Elizabeth Austin, from her Mass of Thanksgiving, based on the hymn "We Gather Together." Other sacred service music planned for the Mass will include works by Beth Anderson, Heather Seaton, Anne Phillips, and Mary Ann Joyce-Walter.   St. John's Episcopal Church in Park Slope, Brooklyn, 139 St. John's Place near 7th Avenue.

David Gamper (1945-2011)Saturday, June 30 at 3pm -  Elliott Schwartz will be performing as piano soloist in the premiere of his "Hearing David" for piano and electronic sounds, at a concert in memory of David Gamper (1945-2011), Bowdoin class of 1967, who was a leading figure in the new-music world.  The composer-performer-sound artist Gamper was a member of the highly influential Deep Listening Band along with Stuart Dempster & Pauline Oliveros.

Schwartz, Professor Emeritus of music at Bowdoin College, where he began teaching in 1964, notes that his work for this concert makes use of sound sources created by Gamper during his student years at Bowdoin and Dartmouth. The concert will take place at Roulette (Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn).

"The Egg" in BeijingFor three weeks in June 2012 the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, will tour greater China, performing in Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, and Guangzhou.

In Taipei, the Orchestra’s performance will feature pianists Lina Yeh and Rolf Peter-Wille in the Mozart Concerto in E flat, KV 365, along with the Symphony No. 5 of Gustav Mahler. All other performances of the tour will be part of a collaboration with the Bard Music Festival, including a revisiting of “Tchaikovsky and World,” “Mahler and His World,” and a special illustrated lecture/concert curated by Leon Botstein on the topic “Shanghai Refugees.”

For his lecture concert, Dr. Botstein has chosen "Evocations" for viola and piano, by Jacob Avshalomov, ACA composer, born in 1919, in Tsingtao, China. Jacob celebrated his 93rd birthday on March 28 this year, with family and friends in Oregon.

Pianist, Hui WuOn May 19, a new work by Elliott Schwartz, Mirrors and Branches for piano solo and 2 pre-recorded pianos will be premiered by pianist Hui Wu - “A Pianist of True Distinction..." (--David Dubal, author and radio host) at the Juilliard School of Music (Paul Hall), 8 pm. The pianist records two tracks in advance of the concert, so that a complete performance sounds like a work for three pianos (the live on-stage pianist flanked by two loudspeakers). 

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 Stefan Wolpe: SECOND PIECE FOR VIOLIN ALONE
Matthew Greenbaum: LATERAL (premiere)
Mario Davidovksy:   SYNCHRONISMS NO. 9
Eric Chasalow: SCUFFLE AND SNAP
Mari Kimura: CANON ELASTIQUE  for Augmented Violin
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Egberto Gismonti: Carta de Amor
Conlon Nancarrow: TOCCATA

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Score page from "as he seemed to appear to the beast in the distance..."Composer-pianist Richard Cameron-Wolfe will participate in the April 23-29 Zhitomir Musical Spring Festival in the Ukraine, for which he serves as U.S. Liaison. He will present an illustrated lecture on the history of the development of American classical music and will be attending productions of two of his solo “micro-operas” (brief experimental musical-theatrical works). On April 26, the Ecuadoran percussionist Cristian Orozco will perform the eastern European premiere of --- as he seemed to appear to the beast in the distance ---

Case Western SingersThe Western Reserve Chorale, Devon T. Gess, conductor, will perform Dr. Adams' setting of the traditional spiritual "I want to die easy" for mixed choir, incidental solo, and piano. Friday, April 20, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the beautiful Harkness Hall at Case Western Reserve University; 11200 Bellflower Road; Cleveland, Ohio.

Inside scoop on this work, noted by the composer: "In the case of my special setting of the traditional minor mode spiritual, "I Want to Die Easy," it was part of my grad final exams at Ohio State. My professor gave me a single staffed melody with lyrics on a small sheet of paper.  This as at noon one day.  The assignment was to do a setting for mixed chorus and piano, due the

Richard Cameron-Wolfe: in SiberiaComposer-Pianist, Richard Cameron-Wolfe is back home from trips abroad, and will be presenting his radio show “Sunday Morning [Un]Classics” on the web this week: Sunday, April 15, broadcasting from 9:00AM to 12:00 Mountain time (11:00AM to 2:00PM Eastern time), 16:00-19:00 in the UK. The program offers a “gourmet table” of familiar and unfamiliar music – with a special emphasis on works composed in the past 100 years. The website is www.krza.org, where one clicks on the "Listen Live" button. Playlist for the April 15, 2012 program includes music by [hour 1] Bill Sherrill, Brahms, Britten, and Robert Gibson (Four Haiku); [hour 2] Beethoven, Eun Young Lee, and Henri Dutilleux; [hour 3] Stravinsky, Eric Richards, Lou Harrison, and the Zhitomir Accordion Trio.