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Aaron Johnson's Man (tape) and 6 bye Six (tape) were both premiered at Louisiana State University on 5/4; Igor, Jr., a collaborative project between the composer and computer animator John Meadows, was also premiered at LSU on 5/4; Turning Spotted Leaves (pf, pg turner) was premiered at the University of North Alabama on 5/4; Festival of Floccus (2 fl) was performed by Michelle Willis and Blaga Ivantcheva at the Baton Rouge Gallery as part of a NACUSA Mid-South concert on 4/26; Songs of Innocence (chor, narr, cl) was premiered by the Camerata Singers conducted by Karl Thomsen at LSU on 4/20; Vexation (t sax, bar sax) was premiered at LSU on 4/17 and performed again on 6/14 at the Baton Rouge Gallery as part of a NACUSA Mid-South concert featuring the Red Stick Quartet.

Mikel Kuehn has been newly appointed to the composition/history faculty of Bowling Green State University where he will teach composition and direct the New Music Ensemble. He recently received awards from the League of Composers/ISCM and the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Competition. Kuehn's music was performed at June in Buffalo (by Harvey Sollberger and the New York New Music Ensemble), New York's Merkin Hall (and was favorably reviewed in the New York Times by Paul Griffiths), and several events hosted by the Texas Computer Musicians Network. His Music through Prisms, which will be featured at ICMC98, was among nine works selected by SEAMUS to represent the U.S. at Vienna's Festival Elektrokomplex.

Christopher Kuzell's Amazing Grace Elegy (cham orch) was performed by the San Luis Chamber Orchestra on 2/1 in San Luis Obispo, California. The composer conducted the entire concert as well as the next two concerts presented on 3/22, and 5/31. Next season he will act as Musical Advisor and perform with the orchestra as a member of the violin section.

Pamela J. Marshall received a commission from Trio Arundel for Waves and Fountains (ob, hn, pf), which they premiered on 9/21/97. Her horn quartets, Isolde's Garden and Cornwall Hunt were performed by the massed horn choir at the International Horn Society Workshop at the Eastman School of Music in June of 1997. The Louisiana Symphony performed her Three Appalachian Carols in their 1997 Christmas season.

Dan Maske was recently commissioned by the Milwaukee Youth Symphony -- Junior Wind Ensemble. Thomas Dvorak commissioned the work to show gratitude for his ten years as conductor of the ensemble. The premiere is scheduled for Thursday, October 28, 1998 at the WMEA Convention in the Marriott Madison West Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin.

Michael Pounds's Reflections for alto saxophone and tape was performed last spring at Millikin University. Critical Mass (tape) was recently performed at Ball State University; at the Next Wave Festival in West Melbourne, Australia; at the Seventh Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival; and at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US (SEAMUS) National Conference at Dartmouth College, where the composer was given the 1998 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Award. He also received a Residence Award at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France.

Harvey Stokes's Sonata for Violoncello and Piano by James Herbison (vc) and Kyong Jarrell (pf) was performed at the National Association of ComposersUSA concert (NACUSA), Tidewater Chapter, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA on 3/15. Three Psalm Fragments (S, cl) was performed by Tracy Shea (S) and Gene Kavadlo (cl) at the Southeastern Composers League 1998 Festival of New Music, Charlotte, NC on 3/27. Lyric Symphony for orchestra was performed by the Richmond Symphony, George Manahan, conductor, on the In Harmony subscription series, Richmond, VA on 4/30. A CD entitled The String Quartets of Harvey Stokes was released on Albany Records.

Karen P. Thomas's Roundup (sax qt) was performed at the American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference at Northwestern University on 3/26. Alnight by the rose (ATTB) has been given numerous performances by the Hilliard Ensemble, and will be performed in their touring repertory in 1998. The Gloves for choir and chamber ensemble was performed by Projektenkoor Morgenrood in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 6/20-6/21.

Bruce Trinkley's Alone/Together (male chor, CA, pf), written for Anne Hampton Calloway and commissioned by the Harrisburg Men's Chorus, was premiered at their 10th Anniversary Concert on 12/7/97. Images and Elegies, seven choruses for mixed voices, won first place and Songs for the End of the Recital (voice, pf) won second place in the 1997 Composer's Guild Contest. Lieder (chor, orch) on a poem by Deborah Austin was performed by the State College Choral Society as part of its 50th Anniversary Concert on 4/25. Cold Mountain (pf trio) was commissioned and premiered by the Castalia Trio at Penn State on 5/3 and later performed during their tour to China in Beijing (5/20), Jinan (5/22, 5/23), and Nanjing (5/29). Santa Rosalia (vocal qt, hpschd, ww qnt), a cantata based on the Fernando Botero painting with text by Jason Charnesky was broadcast on WPSX-TV on 5/7 and 5/10. Sun (female chor, pf) was a winner in the International Composer Competition and was performed at the Jihlava Choral Festival on 6/28 in the Czech Republic.