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Visit Us at the League of American Orchestras National Conference

Jun. 04, 2009

The League of American Orchestras Conference kicks off next Wednesday, June 10 in Chicago. As always, the friendly folks from Schott/EAM will be attending in full force. Come visit the Schott/EAM booth in the exhibit hall (booth #18) to peruse our selection of scores, audio samples and more! We are pleased to inform you that our very own Schott composer Joseph Schwantner, currently the composer for the groundbreaking Ford Made in America Commissioning Consortium, will be in attendance as well. You'll have an opportunity to hear Mr. Schwantner speak as a featured panelist at the Toolbox and Perspective session New Models for Consortium Commissioning on Friday, June 12.

This year's conference will be graced by not one but two Schott composers. Andrew Norman, winner of this year's Berlin Prize in Music Composition, is also a featured panelist at the Publisher Showcase Session: Connecting Composers with Your Audience on Friday, June 12. Our very own Norman Ryan, Vice President-Composers and Repertoire, is also a featured panelist at the Repertoire and Programming Amid Financial Uncertainty session on Thursday, June 11 and joins Mr. Schwantner on the panel for New Models for Consortium Commissioning.

In between these interesting and engaging panel discussions, please don't forget to stop by our exhibit. Among some of the orchestral scores we will feature this year are:

Robert Beaser, Guitar Concerto - This piece is coming off its New York premiere by Dennis Russell Davies and the American Composers Orchestra, featuring guitarist Eliot Fisk for whom the piece was written.

Bruce MacCombie, Samsara Rounds - This, quiet meditative work which saw its premiere this year by James DePreist and The Juilliard Orchestra is a reflection on the Buddhist concept of the "wheel of life."

Tobias Picker, The Encantadas - This work for narrator and orchestra is Tobias Picker's contemporary take on the genre of melodrama as the text is drawn from Herman Melville's vivid and poetic descriptions of the sea-swept Galapagos Islands. Picker's work consists of six movements, each of which evokes a different picture of life in the islands' equatorial wilderness.

Bernard Rands, "chains like the sea" - Premiered in the fall of 2008 by Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic, "chains like the sea" is inspired by the composer's experiences living in Wales. The work takes its title, and those of its two movements, "the sabbath rang slowly" and "rivers of the windfall light" from the Dylan Thomas poem Fern Hill.

Joseph Schwantner, Chasing Light - This piece is the result of Joseph Schwantner being selected as the composer for the current round of Ford Made in America's commissioning consortium and is currently in the midst of a nationwide run of performances by the 59 orchestras of the consortium over the course of the 2008/09 and 2009/10 concert seasons.

Alvin Singleton, Brooklyn Bones - This work was written in commemoration of the centennial of the Fort Greene Park Prison Ship Martyrs Monument and had its premiere in November, 2008. Utilizing an original text by Patricia Hampl, the piece draws its inspiration from the story of the thousands of American Revolutionary War victims who perished aboard the British prison ships docked in New York City's Wallabout Bay between 1776 and 1783.

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