BRAVI to...
Yehudi Wyner
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Yehudi Wyner , for winning the Pulitzer Prize in music for 2006 and the $10,000 award that comes with it. His selection was based on the composition of a Piano Concerto, "Chiavi in Mano," premiered by Robert Levin and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Feb. 17, 2005. Wyner, 77, has some 60 works in his catalog, and has been the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Composition at Brandeis University since 1991. He has also been a loyal NMC supporter ...
Tania León , our accomplished Board member, for her appointment as Distinguished Professor of The City University of New York on February 27 th . Tania is one of seven CUNY professors to receive this prestigious designation conferred on an individual by the CUNY board in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement and expected continued excellence. She joined the Brooklyn College faculty in 1985 ... and also for her being honored with a Women Composer's Award by the Latin American Women's Council and the Latin-american Cultural Center of Queens in celebration of Women's History Month. The award honors women who are making history today ... Michael Dellaira , for the selection of Chéri as one of the New Works Samplers performed at the Opera Conference 2006, hosted by Seattle Opera, an event sponsored by Opera America. Chéri , with a libretto by Susan Yankowitz, is based on a novel by Colette. Musically, Chéri is a hybrid: it uses the vernacular harmonies of Broadway and popular music as a basis for instrumental and vocal forms normally found in opera. The work was recently a finalist for the 2006 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater, administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters ... Claire Rosengarten , founder and executive director of New Music for Young Ensembles, which is now in the process of archiving its winning scores for public access. These scores, of accessible, brief, fine chamber music, which were composed for competitions to support the repertoires of younger professional performers over a period of 30 years, will find a home at the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center. It will take the form of an ongoing exhibit of letters, photos, programs, reviews, notes by judges, as well as original scores ... Elliott Carter's first and only opera, What Next? , was scheduled to receive its American stage premiere in a production at Tanglewood Music Center on July 27 th and 28 th . Carter champion James Levine was to conduct. (See Dave Cleary's review of the CD just out.) ... William Mayer , belatedly, on the occasion of his 80 th birthday, celebrated in high musical style at the Renee Weiler Auditorium last year ... Looking back over his bio we note the many raves his compositions received over the years, for such works as his Octagon, Fern Hill, Eight Miniatures, Distant Playing Fields, Enter Ariel, First Song and Last Song, Ae Fond Kiss, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Brief Candle, Overture For An American, Good King Wenceslas, Scenes from the Snow Queen, Hello, World!, One Christmas Long Ago, Two News Items, Abandoned Bells, and, of course, A Death in the Family, his finest opera ... Don Freund , for his accomplishments in retrospect: his 30+ years of teaching at the Indiana University Music School which led to many awards; his appointment as composer-in-residence at the Australian National Academy of Music in 1998; his over 100 performed compositions; a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2005); two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; several commissions and many prizes including the Washington International String Quartet Composition Competition, the International Society for Contemporary Music/League of Composers International Piano Music Competition, the 1995 AGO/ECS Publishing Award in Choral Composition, the 1997 Rodrigo Riera International Competition for Guitar Composition, the Hanson Prize, the McCurdy Award, the Aspen Prize, 25 ASCAP Awards, and a Macgeorge Fellowship from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Quite a career!
[Editor's note: As always Bravi to... is exclusively devoted to you NMC subscribers and supporters, whom we urge to inform us of your good news.]
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