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NEW COLLEGE, SARASOTA, FLORIDA FURMAN C. ARTHUR - INFORMATION

FOR USE: Sunday, May 26, 1968

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Premiere performances of the works of two

American composers will highlight the fourth annual

New College Summer Music Festival opening Friday.

Also new this year is the assistance of the

National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida

Development Commission in the presentation of the Festival.

Commissioned works by composers Ezra Laderman

and Robert Stewart will be performed during public

concerts on June 8 and 14.

Stewart's Concerto for French Horn and Chamber

Orchestra, which will be performed at the June 8 concert,

will feature John Barrows as soloist with the Festival

Chamber Orchestra.

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On June 14, Laderman's composition, Double

Helix, will be performed by Jul~us Baker as flutist,

Robert Bloom as oboist, together with the New College

String Quar-tet.

Stewart, professor of music and fine arts at

Washington and Lee University, is widely known as a

composer. His compositions have been performed by some

of the leading groups for contemporary music, including

The Composers Forum, Music In Our Time, The Group for

Contemporary Music, and New Dimensions in Music Series.

In 1965, he composed a Brass Quintet for the

annual Symposium of Contemporary Music for Brass in

Atlanta, Ga. and at the same meeting another composition

was accorded a major prize.

Laderman is recognized as one of today's

versatile young composers of serious music. He has

held three separate Guggenhe.im fellowships, won a Prix

de Rome, and been awarded grants from the Martha Baird

Rockefeller and Ford Foundations.

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About six years ago, Laderman decided to devote

his full time to composition. Since then his score for

the documentary film of Mrs. Elemnor Roosevelt's life

received special critical notice and the film was

awarded an Oscar. A new work for two narrators and

orchestra written in collaboration with Archibald

MacLeish with text and poems and letters by Emily

Dickinson, received its world premiere during the 1967

series of the New York Philharmonic Promenade Concerts.

Laderman hopes to complete a larger work for

orchestra, a piece of chamber music, and a dramatic

work each year.

Their works will be part of the two-week festival

which includes daily classes for musicians and five

public weekend concerts beginning on June 1.

Other artists, in addition to Barrows, Baker

and Bloom , who will be brought here by musical director

Paul Wolfe, are pianist Leonid Hambro, violist Walter

Trampler, clarine etist Robert Marcellus, cellist Bernard ----

Greenhouse, bassist Gaston Dufresne and bassoonist Sol

Schoenbach.

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Wolfe also will supplement these distinguished

faculty members with the New College String Quartet, made

up of violinist Anita Brooker, violist William Magers,

cellist Christopher von Baeyer with Wolfe also as violinist.

During the second week of the Festival, Joseph

Silverstein, concertmaster of the Boston Symphony

Orchestra and chairman of the String Department of the

New England Conservatory of Music will give a number

of master classes.

Dr. Arthur R. Borden Jr., Festival administrator

as well as chairman of the Division of Humanities of

New College, said that this year the Festival had

received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

through the Florida Development Commission.

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