Elizabeth R. AustinA
Child’s Garden of Music, a
collection of vignettes for solo piano, by Elizabeth R. Austin, will be
performed this Saturday, April 14 at 1:30 p.m at The Portland (Maine)
Conservatory of Music. For
and about children, individual pieces from this collection will be performed by
Students of the Conservatory. This
concert will be part of the Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival.
Featured composers include Beth Wiemann from the University of
Maine at Orono; Joshua DeScherer, Mark Tipton, Gia Comoli and Richard
Nelson of UMA; and USM composers Paul Thomas and Josh Newton. Other highlights of the fourth annual Back Cove Festival of Contemporary Music
at the Portland Conservatory of Music, will be duets and arias from Daniel Sonenberg's opera, "The Summer
King," based on the life of famous Negro League baseball player Josh
Gibson.
