ILLINOIS WESLEYAN,UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC SYMPOSIUM OF,CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CONCERT Memorial Center Ma rch 19, 197 I 8: 15 p.m. - Program SUITE FOR PIANO----------------------------R. Bedford Watkins Prelude Night Music Symbol Toccata Doris Hi I I, piano FIVE SHORT PIECES FOR PIANO----~-------------Edward J. Miller Lightly and very fast Moderately slow Moderately fast, in jazz style Slowly, with expression Fast and whimsical Abram M. Plum, piano PIECE FOR TAPE AND CLARINET------------------Edward J. Miller John McGrosso, clarinet MEATWAVES------------------------------------Edward J. Miller Fi 1m by Abbott Meader Electronic sound track THE SEVEN LAST DAYS--------------------------Edward J. Miller IWU Chamber Singe,s, directed by David Nott Tony Kissane, percussion Electronic tape prepared on the ElectroComp Text by Donald Justice Fi 1m by Abbott Meader Winner of the E. C. Schirmer and Handel and Haydn Society of Boston Choral Composition Contest, 1970 INTERMISSION
ChoreoSpectrum----------------------------------Abram M. P~um Dancers: Cheryl Barnes, EI len Crawford, Lisa Eggers, Lisa Flannagan, Nicole Huffman, Connie Hutchinson, Jul ie Rietan, Laury Schmitt, Anne Vestuto (members of YWCA Dance Workshop) Choreography by Jane Plum Electronic score composed at Southern I I I inois University, Summer 1970 Meditation on the Points of the Compass------Pau~ine IWU Collegiate Choir, directed by David Nott Commissioned by IWU Collegiate Choir, 1970 First performance
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*** The Symposium of Contemporary Music is sponsored joint~y by the IWV Fine Arts Festiva~ and the Frank R. Bohnhorst Memoria~ Fund.
*** March 21, 8: 15 p.m. - Concert by IWU Percussion Ensemble, Robert Bankert, director. March 22,8:15 p.m. - NEW RESOURCES FOR MUSIC FROM ELECTRONICS. Lecture-demonstration by Wi I I Gay Bottje.