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Performances 2001

Women's Works<

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*** = Premiere Performance

Being Who You Are, performed by 4th graders at the Westridge School Holiday Concert for an audience of 800, with conductor Elizabeth Hanger. (Pasadena,-CA)

We Lift Up Our Hearts, performed by children's and adult choirs of First Unitarian Church, with conductor Mark Slegers. (Portland,-OR)

Before the Bread by the First Universalist Society choir, Patricia Talbot conductor (Hartland Four Corners, VT)

The children's & adult choirs of Unity Church perform We Lift Up Our Hearts, under direction of Ruth Palmer (St. Paul,-MN)

We Lift Up Our Hearts, performed by the children's and adult choirs of Unitarian-Universalist Church, Tom Sears conducting. (Eugene, OR)

Sera Smolen

The Association of Independent Maryland Schools features Trust the Seeds at its Fall Conference reading session, under director Paul Rardin. (Baltimore,-MD)

The choirs of First Congregational Unitarian Church and director Ray Bauwens perform We Lift Up Our Hearts. (11/18---Harvard,-MA)

Cellist Sera Smolen leads an improvisation workshop featuring Vermicelli, at the Binghamton Cello Festival. (Binghamton,-NY)

The Gregg Smith Singers perform Finally On My Way To Yes on their Concert Series at Saint Peter's Church (11/24 - New-York-City,-NY)

The Hill Country Singers perform Give Me a Laundry List, under direction of Glen Beeler. (11/17 & 11/18 - Round_Rock,-TX)

This year's Winner of the Ithaca College Choral Composition Competition, Finally On My Way To Yes is performed at the Ithaca College Choral Festival by the Ward Melville High School Camerata, under the direction of Linda Contino, with pianist Eugene Lee.. (11/10---Ithaca,-NY)

Look To This Day!, performed by the choir of Unity Church, Ruth Palmer conducting. (St. Paul,-MN)

If You Can Walk You Can Dance, performed by the choir of First Unitarian Church of San Jose at its annual Homecoming Celebration. (San-Jose,-CA)

Look To This Day! is featured at the Cornerstone Event of First Unitarian Church of San Jose, in celebration of the church's anniversary and the dedication of a new building and organ. (San-Jose,-CA)

Choral Readings of A Palette To Paint Us As We Are (SATB) and Trust the Seeds, under direction of Gary Keating, at the GALA 2001 Leadership Conference (Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses). (Portland,-OR)

To Make a Prairie is featured on a concert celebrating the opening of the exhibit, "Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women in History," at Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church. Performed by Carolyn Slenska, Betsy Yarrison and Mimi Stevens, with Elaine Peterson at the piano. (Alexandria,-VA)

Trust the Seeds, performed by the choir of the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Rockford,Kay Hotchkiss conductor. (Rockford,-IL)

The Seton Hill College Choir performs If You Can Walk You Can Dance, under the direction of Marvin Huls. (9/30---Greensburg,-PA) -

Choral Readings of If You Can Walk You Can Dance (Beth Norton, conductor), Trust the Seeds and Immortal Love (Sheila Brown, conductor), and Before the Bread, (Elizabeth Alexander, conductor). Unitarian-Universalist Musicians Network Conference. (Highlands,-NC)

Choral Reading of Finally On My Way To Yes, conducted by Tom Benjamin, at the Unitarian-Universalist Musicians Network Conference. (Highlands,-NC)

Finally On My Way To Yes, performed by the Out Loud Chorus under direction of Shawn Benedict, at The Common Ground (7/14---Ithaca,-NY)

I Write This Poem Out Of Darkness, performed by singers Ann Tedards, Elizabeth Wood, and Giselle Wyers, under direction of J.-Michele-Edwards, at the International Feminist Theory and Music Conference. Velma Morrison Performing Arts Center. Boise State University. (Boise,-ID)

*** Premiere Performance of Before the Bread, by the children's choir of First Unitarian Church under direction of Jennifer Haywood (Ithaca,-NY)

Trust the Seeds and Immortal Love, performed by the Sherwood High School Chamber Singers under direction of Bill Evans (5/21---Olney,-MD)

Rutgers University Queens Chorale

Performance of To Make a Prairie, by the Rutgers University Queen's Chorale, under the direction of Steven A. Russell, at Kirkpatrick Chapel, Rutgers University (4/21---New-Brunswick,-NJ)

** Premiere performanceof Those Who Wish To Sing Always Find a Song, Give Me A Laundry List and If You Can Walk You Can Dance for elementary, middle school and high school choirs, by the choirs of the Farmington Public Schools, under the direction of Scott Campbell (commissioned in honor of Farmington, Vermont's Teacher of the Year, Scott-Campbell)

Repeat performance of I Write This Poem Out Of Darkness by Women's Works, at Wells College (Aurora,-NY)

*** Premiere performance of I Write This Poem Out Of Darkness for three women's voices, violin, cello and piano, commissioned by Women's Works. First Unitarian Church (Ithaca,-NY)Trust the Seeds and Immortal Love, Sherwood High School Choir, under direction of Bill Evans (Rockville,-MD)

*** Premiere performance of Immortal Love by the Unitarian Church of Lincoln choir, under the direction of Sheila Brown (Lincoln,-NE)

Finally On My Way To Yes, Lycoming College Touring Choir, Fred Thayer, conductor. 15 performances in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, with a final performance at Lycoming College in Williamsport,-PA.

We Lift Up Our Hearts, Potomac School Chorus under the direction of Jerry Rich (Arlington,-VA)

Lycoming College Tour Choir

*** Premiere performance of My Aunt Gives Me a Clarinet Lesson commissioned by the Syracuse Society for New Music, with Neva Pilgrim, soprano and conductor Mark Scatterday. (Syracuse,-NY)

Repeat performance of Finally On My Way To Yes by Out Loud Chorus, Shawn Benedict conductor (Syracuse,-NY)

*** Premiere performanceof Finally On My Way To Yes, commissioned by Out Loud Chorus, under direction of Shawn Benedict with the composer at the piano (Ithaca,-NY)