PERFORMED

JAMES ADLER'S 75-minute work, Memento mori: An AIDS Requiem, received its European premiere on May 19, 2005 at the Tallinn Methodist Church in Estonia. Ants Soots conducted the Estonian National Male Choir in the this requiem dedicated to those who have succumbed to AIDS. A CD recording of Memento mori, performed by AmorArtis Chorale and Orchestra, conducted by Johannes Somary, is available on Albany Records.

DAGMAR, written and conceived by awardwinning composer Jim Bauer (The Weimarband /The Blue Flower) was given its world premiere performance at Joe's Pub on June 25th. Dagmar is six agile and versatile musicians from around the globe, picking up where Pete Townsend and Pink Floyd left off in their music-meets-theater adventures and continuing to build a new "Found Music" genre in the process.

STEVE EDWARDS' Ave Maria Mass and Revelation: Battle, Peace in Heaven, and Warning on Earth was performed with 150 singers and 50 orchestra on May 22nd at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Candace Wicke.

THE ANTIENT CONCERT, A Chamber Opera with Words by Paul Muldoon and Music by Daron Hagen. In the opera, James Joyce (Matthew Berner) and John McCormack (Sean Effinger-Dean) square off in a singing competition at the Antient Concert Rooms in 1904 Dublin as May Joyce (Margaret Meyer) and Nora Barnacle (Molly Ephraim) observe and comment. The result is a sixty-minute opera concerning sex, death, national identity, and artistic integrity. The cast is joined onstage by the Borromeo String Quartet, conducted by the composer.

ROBERT PATERSON'S Wind Quintet was performed by Quintet of the Americas at Sarah Lawrence College on March 21, 2005 at Reisinger Concert Hall in Bronxville, NY. The performance was presented by the Sarah Lawrence College Music Department.