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Chamber Music of Dan Locklair at Weymouth Center in Southern Pines, N.C.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Composer Dan Locklair’s Dream Steps, A Dance Suite for flute, harp and viola will be performed on Sunday, April 11 – 3:00 PM in the Great Room of Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, 555 East Connecticut Avenue in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
Dream Steps was written in five movements - I. Barcaroles and Recitatives, II. Awakenings, III. Bars of Blues, IV. Ballade in Sarabande and V. Barcaroles, and has been recorded by the Mallarmé Chamber Players for Albany - Dan Locklair: Chamber Works and Capstone - Chamber Music for Harp, Flute, and Strings.
Other works on the program include Quartet for flute and strings by Franz Hoffmeister, Deux Poemes du Ronsard for soprano and flute by Albert Roussel, Sabina for solo viola by Andrew Norman and Exodus for soprano, violin, viola, cello, and harp by Elena Ruehr.
Performers include Ilana Davidson, soprano, Laura Gilbert, flute, Jacqui Carrasco, violin, Jonathan Bagg, viola, Elizabeth Beilman, cello and Jacquelyn Bartlett, harp.
Admission to the April 11 concert is by membership or $15 ticket. For more information, call 910-692-6261 or visit http://www.weymouthcenter.org/.
Internationally recognized composer Dan Locklair is Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His compositional output includes symphonic works, a ballet, an opera, and numerous solo, chamber, vocal, organ and choral compositions. His music has been performed throughout Europe and North America by many major orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles and soloists. Among his honors are consecutive ASCAP Awards since 1981 and a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award.
Loft Recordings has issued The Music of Dan Locklair (LRCD-1110), organ music performed by Marilyn Keiser - http://www.gothic-catalog.com/The_Music_of_Dan_Locklair_Marilyn_Keiser_organist_p/lrcd-1110.htm and Naxos has issued Symphony of Seasons and other orchestral works (CD 8.559337), performed by the Slovak Radio Orchestra - http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559337. Locklair’s primary publishers are Subito Music (http://www.subitomusic.com) and Ricordi (Boosey & Hawkes and Hal Leonard, U.S. agents). Read his Rubric newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/mar10/DL_nws_031710.pdf.
For more information about composer Dan Locklair, including a bio, list of works, discography and much more, please visit http://www.locklair.com. You can also contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Composer Dan Locklair’s Dream Steps, A Dance Suite for flute, harp and viola will be performed on Sunday, April 11 – 3:00 PM in the Great Room of Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, 555 East Connecticut Avenue in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
Dream Steps was written in five movements - I. Barcaroles and Recitatives, II. Awakenings, III. Bars of Blues, IV. Ballade in Sarabande and V. Barcaroles, and has been recorded by the Mallarmé Chamber Players for Albany - Dan Locklair: Chamber Works and Capstone - Chamber Music for Harp, Flute, and Strings.
Other works on the program include Quartet for flute and strings by Franz Hoffmeister, Deux Poemes du Ronsard for soprano and flute by Albert Roussel, Sabina for solo viola by Andrew Norman and Exodus for soprano, violin, viola, cello, and harp by Elena Ruehr.
Performers include Ilana Davidson, soprano, Laura Gilbert, flute, Jacqui Carrasco, violin, Jonathan Bagg, viola, Elizabeth Beilman, cello and Jacquelyn Bartlett, harp.
Admission to the April 11 concert is by membership or $15 ticket. For more information, call 910-692-6261 or visit http://www.weymouthcenter.org/.
Internationally recognized composer Dan Locklair is Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His compositional output includes symphonic works, a ballet, an opera, and numerous solo, chamber, vocal, organ and choral compositions. His music has been performed throughout Europe and North America by many major orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles and soloists. Among his honors are consecutive ASCAP Awards since 1981 and a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award.
Loft Recordings has issued The Music of Dan Locklair (LRCD-1110), organ music performed by Marilyn Keiser - http://www.gothic-catalog.com/The_Music_of_Dan_Locklair_Marilyn_Keiser_organist_p/lrcd-1110.htm and Naxos has issued Symphony of Seasons and other orchestral works (CD 8.559337), performed by the Slovak Radio Orchestra - http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559337. Locklair’s primary publishers are Subito Music (http://www.subitomusic.com) and Ricordi (Boosey & Hawkes and Hal Leonard, U.S. agents). Read his Rubric newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/mar10/DL_nws_031710.pdf.
For more information about composer Dan Locklair, including a bio, list of works, discography and much more, please visit http://www.locklair.com. You can also contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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