My percussion concerto in performance June 1....

Below is a press release from Musica Nova, the Scottsdale orchestra that will perform the world premere of the revised (and final) version of my percussion concerto, Canto de Alba (Song of the Dawn), June 1. To order tickets online, go to www.MusicaNovaAz.org.

MUSICA NOVA'S ARIZONA COMPOSERS CONCERT

On June 1 at 4PM at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church 25150 N Pima Rd
Scottsdale, AZ 85255, the MusicaNova Orchestra will perform a concert of
music written by Arizona composers, including works by Arizona natives
Ulysses Kay and Kenneth LaFave and current Arizona residents Judith
Zaimont and Ron Nelson. LaFave's Canto de Alba is a percussion concerto
which will feature Flagstaff Symphony Principal Maria Flurry. An
exciting feature of this concert will be a reading session of works by
emerging Arizona composers under the age of 20.

In this way we celebrate the past, present and future of music in
Arizona. The Suite for Orchestra by Ulysses Kay was voted “the finest
piece of music written by a native Arizonan in the first half of the
twentieth century” in a 1948 contest held by the Phoenix Symphony,
although the piece has remained almost unperformed since then. Ron
Nelson's gorgeous Sarabande was written in 1954, while Zaimont's “
Stillness” and the LaFave Concerto are creations of the past few years.
With the excerpts from the works of the young composers we will hear the
future of orchestral music; for these talented young people it will be
the first time they hear a professional orchestra perform their music.

This program has been supported by grants from the Arizona Commission on
the Arts and the Scottsdale League for the Arts.

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