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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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