Upcoming World Premiere
The world premiere of Denisch’s powerful “Five on Five” featuring Diane Heffner, clarinet and the New England String Quartet.
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Fire Mountain Intermezzo
Arild Remmereit conducted the Rochester Chamber Orchestra in a concert that was a special part of the Rochester Fringe Festival. Ever since Maestro Remmereit arrived in Rochester, he has immersed himself in the city’s history, especially the legacies of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Remmereit and the RCO, together with special guests, presented a
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Three Women in Vegas!
Wendy Rolfe, flute, and Eric Charnofsky, piano, performed Three Women, on August 10, 2012 at the National Flute Association convention in Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, NV. Three Women’s movments: I. Miriam’s Ballad, II. Rachel’s Song, and III. Ruth’s Dance are songs arranged for flute and piano from Denisch’s One Blazing Glance song cycle.
Read moreLapland Chamber Orchestra performs The Suite of Five Seasons
The Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Stogårds, conductor performed (Finland premiere) “The Suite of Five Seasons” on May 16, 2012 in Rovaniemi, Finland. Inspired by the 2008 Beijing Olympics this woodwind quintet explores the dreams and aspirations of athletes who came to work and play together from all over the world. Musical influences from the five
Read moreBeth Denisch, Composer in Residence at the University of Missouri – St. Louis and featured speaker at the Women in the Arts Festival at UMSL
Vocal Point, under the direction of Dr. James Henry, premiered “Love is, Love Says”. Denisch based her choral piece on Samuel B. Hanser’s two poems, “Love Is” and “Love Says” from his book “Many Blessings: The Remembrance of One” (published posthumously, 2010). “This song is meant to inspire and empower others to fill their lives with love,”
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STAR II: Lost and found, Played and published!
When Christin Schillinger asked Juxtab Music for a copy of Star II it was not to be found. It had slipped out of our current inventory and the original was missing. Searching for someone who might have a copy we luckily found bassoonist Margaret Phillips. We retrieved the sole copy and the handwritten score was
Read moreLydian String Quartet played Denisch’s “Phantasmagoria”
The Lydian String Quartet played Denisch’s “Phantasmagoria” on March 29th as part of the Music by Women of the Americas from three centuries with additional music by Teresa Carreño (Venezuelan, late 19th century), Florence Price (African-American, mid-20th c.), Ruth Lomon and a new piece by Cuban composer Magaly Ruiz Lastres. The concert was organized by
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Motherwell Lorca’s Bagpipe Lament Wins!
Motherwell Lorca’s Bagpipe Lament, for solo piano, won 2 prizes in the 2009 Composers Guild Composition Competition: the Certificate of Excellence for Best Short Composition and the Award of Excellence in the Keyboard Category. Motherwell Lorca’s Bagpipe Lament has also been arranged for bassoon quartet.
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One Blazing Glance Premiere
One Blazing Glance, a song cycle celebrating women’s life-cycle events, was premiered on November 13, 2007 in Boston, MA with assistance from the American MusicCenter, the PatsyLu Fund of the Open Meadows Foundation, Berklee College of Music, the Institute of Leadership and Change at Simmons College and hosted by Our Bodies Ourselves, a women’s health
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One Blazing Glance performed at the Feminist Theory and Music Conference
One Blazing Glance was most recently performed May 30, 2009 at the Galvanizing and Improvising: Feminist Theory and Music Conference 10 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC. Soparno soloist Kathryn Wright and flutist Wendy Rolfe were joined by Scott Rawls, viola, Helen Rifas, harp and Peter Zlotnick, marimba.
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