March 19 and 20 Concerts Feature Songs and Solo Piano Music The music of American composer Beth Anderson will be featured in two upcoming concerts: Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 8 PM at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, 101 Walnut Lane in Princeton, New Jersey. Pianist Marvin Rosen will present a piano recital titled "The Ink is Still Wet" which will include Ms. Anderson's September Swale. The concert, totally devoted to music from the last 10 years, by living composers will be in the University's Bristol Chapel and will also include the music of Kamalia Ali-zadeh (Azerbaijan), Betty Beath (Australia), Boudewijn Buckinx (Belgium), Rene Eespere (Estonia), Gareth Farr (New Zealand), Peter Machajdik (Slovakia), Beata Moon (USA), Frank J. Oteri (USA), Jaan Raats (Estonia), and Yoichi Togawa (Japan). Tickets are $10 adults and $5 students/seniors. For more information, call (609) 921-7104 or email Marvin Rosen at Clasdis@cs.com. Sunday, March 20, 2005 - beginning at 5 PM at Deep Listening Space, 75 Broadway in the Rondout District of Kingston, New York. Ms. Anderson's Time Stands Still, A Day, Lazy Pussy (from Cat Songs), Beauty Runs Faster, Lullaby, and Knots will be performed by soprano Dr. Melanie Mitrano with pianist Judy De Wette. The composer will also perform a set of her text-sound pieces including If I Were A Poet, Country Time, Yes Sir Ree, and Ocean Motion Mildew Mind and will improvise with vocalist and tape in a piece by Al Margolis as he manipulates the sounds electronically. There will be a symposium with Kyle Gann, Iris Brooks, and Pauline Oliveros from 5-7 PM, followed by the concert. Ticket are $10, $8 students and seniors. Call (845) 338-5984 for tickets and information or visit http://www.pofinc.org/index2.html. Beth Anderson's music has been described as having "a refreshing simplicity without naiveté" and as -"deeply felt, direct, and yes, beautiful" and "charming and deeply felt to the point of romanticism." Her latest CDs are Swales and Angels- http://www.composersrecordings.com/cgi-bin/search2/disc.cgi?new_release_month=Apr and Quilt Music - http://www.albanyrecords.com/. An essay by Ms. Anderson about her music for the American Music Center's NewMusicBox webmagazine can be read at http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=53hf02. 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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