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Beth Anderson's Busy Year
Beth Anderson recently sent a summary of her activities for the year 2003. It was such a remarkable list of international performances that we thought it would be a good idea to include it on the new International Composer website with the composer's commentary on selected events. Please have a look at the site and see this amazing list.
One of the great highlights of the year was the All-Beth Anderson concert given at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on November 19.
Mark Greenfest wrote a wonderful review of the concert for New Music Connoisseur and it was available in the magazine of Der Rode Pomp in Ghent, Belgium and on Musical Pointers in London.
Karen Sharf, Ph.D. wrote for Musical Pointers and it was also available on Sequenza 21.
One is due out shortly in American Record Guide by Leslie Kandell and another in the International Association of Women in Music Journal by Karla Fisk.
Some are archived here: http://users.rcn.com/beand/quotes.html.
Upcoming Performances
Beth Anderson's music is being performed and heard across the United States and around the world in 2004. Here are performances that we know of so far in what promises to be another busy year:
January 29, 2004 soprano, Francoise Vanhecke, performed her songs (from the cycle Cat Songs including Kilkenny Cats, The Tyger and She sights a Bird) in Cultureel Centrum Elzenhof in Brussels, Belgium.
January 31, 2004 soprano, Francoise Vanhecke, again performed her songs from the cycle Cat Songs, this time in the Arena/ Stadsschouwburg in Kortrijk, Belgium.
February 12, 2004 flutist Nina Assimakopoulos and pianist William Newbrough performed a concert entitled "Music Inspired By Words And Literature" which included the world premiere of my Ms. Anderson's new flute solo, Comment, based on a Dorothy Parker poem on the Women's Work series presented by Greenwich House Arts and New York Women Composers Inc.
February 19, 2004 at 8 PM violinist Ana Milosavljevic and pianist Terezija Cukrov will perform her Tale #1-#2, Dr. Blood's Mermaid Lullaby, Belgian Tango on the Women's Work series presented by Greenwich House Arts and New York Women Composers Inc. at 44 Barrow Street in NY City at 8 PM.
February 25, 2004 Françoise Vanhecke will perform a group of Ms. Anderson's Cat Songs, once again on the Women's Work series presented by Greenwich House Arts and New York Women Composers Inc. at 44 Barrow Street in NY City at 8 PM.
March 5, 2004 the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra will perform Kentucky Swale in a concert entitled "Made in America" with all American composers. Visit the Symphony online at http://www.owensborosymphony.org/.
March 29, 2004 Joe Kubera will perform Quilt Music, a large piano work from 1983. Also on the program will be Sonata No. 3 by Frank Nuyts (a really interesting Belgian composer), a new piece by Boudewijn Buckinx (another wonderful and yet quite different Belgian composer), and Serenades by Michael Sahl. The concert will be entitled: "The Conspiracy to Commit Beauty: Flanders/New York with Joseph Kubera" and will be a Roulette concert produced at the Flea Theater, 41 White Street, NY (Box Office - 212.226.2407).
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March 31, 2004 The Montpelier Chamber Orchestra in Vermont conducted by Catherine Orr is performing Kentucky Swale on Wednesday March 31, 2004 at a free concert entitled "Farmer's Night" in the state capitol, on Saturday April 3, 2004 8pm, in the Unitarian Church, Montpelier and on Sunday April 4, 2004 at 4pm, in Chandler Music Hall, Randolph. The rest of the program includes Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, plus a chamber choir singing Copland's Old American songs, Joplin's The Entertainer and Ives' The Unanswered Question. More information at: www.montpelierchamberorchestra.org.
There are even more performances coming in the rest of 2004 in the U.S. and Europe. For more information about upcoming performances, visit http://www.beand.com.
New CDs
Peachy Keen-O, the brand new and very first all-Beth Anderson CD came out on the Pogus label in November 2003. It includes the following pieces from the 1970's: Torero Piece (The Complete Version), Country Time, Tower Of Power, Yes Sir Ree, Peachy Keen-O, Ode, Joan, I Can't Stand It, and Ocean Motion Mildew Mind. They are performed by Kitty Mraw, Ana Perez, Linda Collins, Wharton Tiers, Michael Blair, Beth and Marjorie Anderson and include text-sound, graphic scores, electro-acoustic, and electronic music on Pogus 21030-2. To order: go to the Pogus website: http://www.pogus.com or go to http://www.amazon.com or write Pogus, 50 Ayr Rd., Chester, NY 10918-2409.
The titles from Peachy Keen-O are going to be up on emusic.com for downloading soon. It has been receiving considerable airplay across the U.S., as well as in Belgium, Croatia and Spain.
There are several reviews of the disk online at:
New World Records has recorded an all-Beth Anderson CD of her chamber music - to be released in April 2004, with the support of The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Thomas Buckner and others. This was recorded the day after her November 19, 2003 Carnegie Hall concert Swales & Angels, by the superb performers of that great evening.
Flutist Nina Assimakopoulos will record Comment for a collection of works for flute by contemporary American women composers. Each piece has a literary reference and Anderson's is a poem by Dorothy Parker. Scheduled for release in 2005.
Other CDs
There are several other CDs currently available that feature Beth Anderson's music. They are:
Lullaby available on The Truth About Love - Capstone CPS-8702
September Swale available on Chilli Con Tango - Antes/Bella Musica #BM/CD31.9153
Net Work and Trio: dream in "d" available on Two By Three: Music By Women - North/South #N/SR 101
Minnesota Swale available on New Music For Orchestra - Opus One #CD156 - available from Albany Distributors (800) 752-1951
All CDs are available from Amazon.com.
Anderson on the Web
For more information about composer Beth Anderson, including a bio, list of works, discography and much more, please visit http://www.beand.com.
You can also contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.
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