James Burke's Overture: "Good Luck, America" was premiered on 7/4 by the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra conducted by Xaio-Lu Li.

Nancy Bloomer Deussen's Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano was performed at the 16th St. Paul's Festival of the Arts at Hargrovia, Monsey (NY) on 7/4; San Andreas Suite (fl, vn, va, vc) was recently released on "Postcards" a new CD from North/South Recordings.

Lawrence Dillon was Composer-in-Residence at the 1997 Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, where he received three performances of a new work by the Cassatt String Quartet. Spring passing was premiered this past summer by Origins at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Another Mad Scene was premiered by Marilyn Taylor in June at Carnegie Hall.

A 60th birthday celebration for Brian Fennelly was presented at Merkin Hall, NYC, on 3/25, that included the premiere of Monogram (pf), the New York premiere of Skyscrapers (sax, str qrt) and a performance of Five Songs with Improvisation with soprano Cheryl Marshall. An all-Fennelly concert was presented by the Greenwich House North River Music Series (NYC) earlier on 11/14/96. Fennelly has received a 1997 Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, honoring lifetime achievement. In summer 1997 CRI will release an all-Fennelly CD with new orchestral recordings (A Sprig of Andromeda and Empirical Rag) and re-mastered recordings of Wind Quintet, Evanescences (instruments, tape), and Tesserae II (vc).

Cynthia J. Folio was invited as one of several guest lecturers and composers at the University of New Mexico Composer's Symposium in April, 1997, where several of her compositions were performed. A new composition, Acra Sacra, for solo flute, was commissioned by the National Flute Association for its 1997 High School Flute Soloist Competition and it will be premiered by six flutists at the Chicago convention in August; it will be published by Hildegard Publishing Company, both as a "solo" piece and within an anthology of flute music by contemporary women composers. Other recent performances: Trio (fl, vc, pf) was performed by the Sierra Trio at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 10 and 11/96; Desert Winds, for band, was performed at Swarthmore College in 4/97; One for Four, (fl, qrt) was performed by the Flute Ensemble at Stanford 10/96, and by Sonora Flutes at Southwest Texas State University in 2/97; Developing Hues (fl, b cl) was performed at the Suburban Music School Benefit Concert in 3/97; and Sketches (fl, pf) was performed at the Indiana University (PA) in April and May, 1997. She received a commission from Girard College to write a piece for band, organ, and heraldic trumpets, to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the College.

Orlando Jacinto Garcia recently received the following performances: La luz penetra el cristal performed 11/96 by Joel Sachs Continuum Ensemble at the Festival of the Arts held in Miami; musica para Segovia in a version for orchestra premiered 11/96 by the Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela as part of the Foro de Compositores del Caribe (also performed at the festival was timbres artificiales by guitarist Ruben Riera); recuerdos de otra musica para piano, performed 3/97 and 6/97 by pianist Martha Marchena as part of the Cuban American Cultural Festival in Los Angeles, CA and at a recital in Miami at the Spanish Consulate's Cultural Center; Music for Chamber Ensemble, performed 2/97 by Dennis Kam's Other Music Ensemble at the Southern CMS regional conference held at the University of Miami, FL; Music for Berlin, performed by duo (Linda Wetherill, flute, and Richard Cameron-Wolfe, piano) 11/96 in NY; canciones fragmentadas, performed by bassist Corrado Canonici 10/96 (premiere) at the Musica 2000 Festival in Ancona, Italy, and at concerts in Maine 12/96 and Turin, Italy 1/97; cuerdas, vientos, y voces premiered by the Walach, Buttery duo (mandolin and tuba) 3/97 in concerts in Miami and Connecticut; String Quartet #1 (Rendering Counterpoint) by the Miami String Quartet at the 1997 Society of Composers National Conference held in Miami; Cello (colores) for solo cello performed by Craig Hultgren 7/96 and 7/97 at recitals in Alabama; soy (I am) for contrabass and piano 5/97 by Luis Gomez Imbert and Juan Francisco Sans, at the Subtropics Music Festival held in Miami; un otono en Salamanca, by the Camarata Kronos at the New Music Festival in Salamanca, Spain 4/97; a-dios, premiered 4/97 by the Ensemble Ciudad de Segovia at the New Music Festival in Segovia, Spain; arcos, fragmentos congelados, musica para Segovia, a-dios, tres, performed 4/97 at a concert of the composers works held in Madrid, Spain, featuring the Ensemble Cuidad de Segovia; Collaga for 4 instruments and tape performed 4/97 by the FIU New Music Ensemble at a concert in Miami. His work on the eve of the 2nd year anniversary of Morton's death for SATB chorus was selected by the international jury for the 1997 ISCM festival and is scheduled for performance at the World Music Days being held in Seoul, Korea 10/97. Garcia's new orchestra piece, sombras iluminadas, is scheduled for premiere by the Orquesta Sinfonica de Malaga at the Alicante festival in Spain where Garcia will be presenting the composition workshop. Another work, cantos, for flute and contrabass is scheduled for premiere 8/97 in Assisi with bassist Corrado Cononici and flutist, Andrea Cecomori. Recent recording of Garcia's music include recuerdos de otra musica para piano released 5/97 on a compact disc featuring pianist Martha Marchena on Albany Records and musica para nada, for tape, released on La Musica en el Caribe II, by the Foro de Compositores del Caribe and the University of Puerto Rico. Images of Wood and Wire, for solo piano is scheduled to be released on North/South Records in January 1998 with Max Lifchitz performing.

Stephen Gryc's Shadowdance (fl, pf) was performed in a recital given by the 1996 winner of the National Flute Association's Young Artists Competition, Kanae Kikuchi. Ms. Kikuchi performed the work on 1/24 in Tokyo. The composer's Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Bela Bartok was performed at the New Music Delaware Festival of Contemporary Music by oboist Lloyd Shorter and the Mendelssohn String Quartet at the University of Delaware in Newark on 3/10. Dream Vegetables, a setting of poems by Maggie Anderson for speaker, clarinet, violin and marimba, was premiered by the New World Chamber Ensemble in West Hartford (CT) on 4/5.

Dorothy Hindman's newly completed work fin de cycle for muted piano and tape, commissioned by Pianist Laura Gordy, received its premiere performance in May on The Future is Here, an all-premieres program on the Thamyris New Music Ensemble's concert series in Atlanta (GA). Gordy also performed the work on the Birmingham Art Music Alliance's series in July at the Hoover Library Theater in Birmingham, Alabama. Earlier this spring, her drowningXnumbers for amplified solo cello was performed by Hugh Livingston as part of his March United States tour at Birmingham-Southern College, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Harvard University and at Tufts as part of the "Year of Women in Music" conference. drowningXnumbers was also performed by cellist Craig Hultgren at the University of Montevallo on a Contemporary Music Ensemble concert. Echo (hn) was performed by Paul Basler in March on the SCI National Conference in Miami, Florida. In February, the Gregg Smith Singers premiered her choral work I Have Heard... in NYC, and repeated the performance in Birmingham, where they recorded the work for CD release. Her Soliloquy (cl) was performed in March on the Birmingham Art Music Alliance's series in Birmingham. Her Dances for (cl, mar, pf) was premiered on the American Originals series in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she was in residence in April. She was a featured panelist at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga's Contemporary Music Symposium in April.

Aaron Johnson's Six Potential Episodes in Time, Space, and Energy (pf) was performed on 2/2 in Baton Rouge by Louis Wendt; Reconstructions of Epicurus (vn) was premiered on 2/24 at Murray State University by Dinos Constantinides; Deconstructing Epicurus (tpt, tbn, tba, perc, va, pf) was premiered on 3/20 in Baton Rouge by the LSU New Music Ensemble; String Quartet was premiered 5/18 in Baton Rouge by the Louisiana Sinfonietta String Quartet.

Daniel Kessner's Simple Motion, Circle Music I, and Preludes for Piano were performed at the Primer Festival de Musica Contempor‡nea de El Salvador on 11/1/96; Circle Music I-B (b, pf) was premiered at California State University, Northridge on 2/14; Dueling (va, vc) was performed at the Meeting of the Pacific Southern Chapter of the College Music Society at the University of California, Riverside on 3/1; Equali VI (mar ensemble) was performed on 4/10 in Eindhoven, Netherlands; Symphonic Mobile I (fl choir) was premiered at Cal State Northridge on 5/7; Symphonic Mobile II was premiered on 5/14 by the Irvine Valley College Wind Ensemble, Steve Rochford, conductor; Chamber Concerto No. 7 was premiered by the Summit Brass, conducted by Paul Lustig Dunkel, during the Rafael MŽndez Brass Institute at Arizona State University on 6/21.

Sasha Matson's Range of Light (M, chamber orch), texts of John Muir, was recently released on the New Albion label.

Jerome Miskell's Of Summer and Eternity (pf qrt) was performed at the University of Akron on 7/31 by Roger Zahab, Jerome Miskell, David Russell, Robert Frankenberry; String Trio on 8/11 at Redeemer Methodist Church, Cleveland; The Winds are Aloft in the Western Reserve (vn, va) was performed at the University of Akron by Roger Zahab and Jerome Miskell on 4/3.

David Meckler's On Contradiction, text by Walt Whitman, was premiered by the Skyline College Choir in San Bruno (CA) on 5/10, and again on 5/20.

Stephen Montague received the following performances: Tigida Pipa and Synthetic Swamp at the Jauna Muzika Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania on 5/2; Synthetic Swamp was again performed at the Kopa Festival on 5/17; Tigida Pipa was performed again on 5/31 at the Bing Theatre (CA), and on 8/5 at Dartington Hall (UK); Aeolian Furies (accordion) was performed on 5/10 at the Music Action Festival; Mirabella (toy pf) was performed on 5/12 in Montreal, and again on 6/6 at the Piccolo Spoletto Festival in Charleston (SC); The Creatures Indoors (orch) was performed on 5/18 by the City of London Sinfonia, on 5/29 by the Northern Sinfonia in Newcastle (UK), on 6/18 by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (UK), on 6/26 in Manchester by the HallŽ Orchestra; Phrygian Tucket (hpchd) was performed by Elisabeth Chojnacka at New Music Days in Warsaw on 6/18; Vlug (fl with electronics) was performed on 6/30 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki; At the White Edge of Phrygia was performed on 7/11 at the World Wind Band International Conference in Austria; Southern Lament (pf) was premiered by Stephen Kovacevich on 7/19, on 7/28 at the BBC Proms, on 8/2 at Dartington Hall, on 8/17 at the Aspen Festival, on 8/25 at the Ravena Festival (IL); Concerto for Piano and Orchestra was premiered on 8/12 at Royal Albert Hall, London, by the Orchestra of St. Johns, Smith Square.

Alfonso Montecino's Sonata for 2 Pianos was performed on 5/28 at the Sejung Cultural Center Auditorium of Seoul, Korea, by Mi Jai Youn and In-Bo Chung. 3 Hommages (pf) was premiered by Paulina Zamora at the Auditorio Fundadores of Medellin, Columbia on 3/19.

David Moore presented a paper, "Vernacular Forms in Alban Berg's Wozzeck," at the Northeast Chapter Meeting of the College Music Society on 4/5 at Trinity College, Hartford (CT). His motet, God So Loved the World (SATB) was performed on 5/25 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rochester (NY).

Marshall Ocker's Elegy: Flight 800 (str orch) and Elysium (orch) were premiered on 6/22 and 6/29 by the Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc, Czech Republic as part of an international festival of New Music for Orchestra. Both works were also recorded by the orchestra and will be released on separate compact discs in late 1997 and early 1998 by the Vienna Modern Masters.

Robert Pitton's Recordate B.A.C.H. (org) was premiered by James Hildreth on 3/10 in Columbus (OH). Aphorism III (org) was premiered on 5/12 at Ascension Lutheran Church Columbus.

Yong Jean Park's Future to the Origin (1997) for string quartet was premiered on 6/4 at the June in Buffalo festival (NY).

Ira-Paul Schwarz was recently honored by the Society of New Music and by the School of Arts and Performance of SUNY Brockport. Sappho, Fragments and Variations (S, pf) was performed 2/2 by Neva Pilgrim and Sar-Shalom Strong, and again on 2/9 by Denise Milner and Rose Shlyam Grace at SUNY, Fredonia; Time Pieces (pf) was recently recorded by Jeffrey Jacob for a New Ariel Recordings, this work was also included in a program of new music from WCNY-FM on 2/21; Five Cats and a Porcupine (ww qnt, pf, nar) was produced and recorded by WXXI-FM and featured as part of the public radio's fund drive on 5/17.

Bruce Trinkley's song cycle, A Communion of Saints, commissioned by soprano Suzanne Roy and pianist Steven Smith, was premiered 1/26 at Penn State. Eve's odds was premiered by Penn State Opera Theatre in April. His cantata, Santa Rosalia, was performed on 7/30 for the 10th Congress of the Society of the Colobianists. Recent choral publications include Three Venezuelan Carols by GIA and To a Sinister Potato/A Gnarled Old Crab-apple Tree Answers Joyce by Alliance.

Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn's Reeds Afire (cl, bn) was premiered on 6/3 by Paul Gallo and Gilbert Dejean, and again on 7/9 during the Clarinet Fest Ô97 of the International Clarinet Association at Texas Tech University, it was also recently published by Southern Music Company. Native American Mosaic for Native American Flute, commissioned by James Pellerite, was premiered in February. Postcards to John (gui) and Trio Italiano (tpt) were recently released on a new CD titled "Postcards" from North/South Recordings. In June, she received her 18th consecutive ASCAP Standard Panel Award.

Kristin Wendland's Songs of Three Seasons was performed on 5/2 by Neophonia with Sam Hagan, Georgia State University.