News and Performances
Headline Update for 2006-2007
SOUNDS – Commissions, Premières, Publications, Podcasts
♦ New CD“PRESTIDIGITATIONS – Contemporary Concert Rags by
J.L. Zaimont”
MSR Classics - MS1238 :: www.msrcd.com (203) 304-2486
March 26, 2007
~~ Featuring The American Ragtime Ensemble • David Reffkin, Director plus Doris L. Kosloff, Joanne Polk, Nanette K. Solomon & Judith L. Zaimont piano, and Elizabeth Ann Owens & Immanuel Davis flute
“Lyricism, variety – delightful contemporary music. Zaimont brings ragtime solidly forward to the 21st century, yet honors its century-old origins. She gets us to view ragtime as music.” -- - MAX MORATH
♦ Première
ISRAELI RHAPSODY for Concert Band March 11, 2007
St. Mary’s University Concert Band • Winona, MN
Commissioned by the Kaplan Foundation. Published by MMB Music, Inc.
♦ Publication - international release
A CALENDAR SET - 12 Preludes March 30, 2007
Jabez Press, Ft. Worth, TX
Winner of 2005 American Composers Invitational Composition Competition
♦ Podcasts : March - April 2007
• 1.5- hour Composer Interview, with Noizepunk and Das Crooner
Includes performances of Growler, Elegy for Strings, Wizards,
‘Bubble-Up’ Rag -- provocative dialogue, and lots of laughing.
http://www.kalvos.org/nkshows.html :: March 24
• Half-hour Composer Interview to launch publication of
A CALENDAR SET
◊ String Quartet – The Figure ( Two movements, 16:00)
• Commissioned for the Harlem Quartet, première September 2007
◊ Four movement work • Commissioned by the Portland Symphonic Choir
Text assemblage: composer. For SSAATTBB, choral soli, organ, perc. ,cello and cor anglais
• Première October 2007 (c. 17:00)
◊ Hitchin’ – a travellin’ groove (5:00)
• Commissioned by Nicola Melville for new recording/publication project,
première September 2007
◊ Parallel Play Recording by Presidio Saxophone Quartet
◊ The Spirit Moves In Me (Three movements, 12:00)
Text assemblage: composer. For SATB, piano, perc., string quartet
• Commissioned by the Universal Sacred Music Foundation. Première 2008
WORDS - Articles, Speeches, Dissertations
◙ “Imaging the Composer Today” - IAWM Journal, June 2007
Clear-eyed view of the emotional payoffs, artistic decisions and fulfillments, and economic perils, that characterize the career of composer in the 21st century.
Zaimont essay, composer profile and list of works. Reprint of the Keynote Speech (Trotter lecture) for the College Music Society national meeting,
September 2006, San Antonio.
◙ Piano Today feature article: A Calendar Set June ‘07 Includes reprint of the score of “June”.
◙ “The Matter of Style” NewMusicBox August 2007
“To what extent is a style something knowingly applied by a composer?”
Zaimont’s article (requested by the online magazine of the American Music Center) explores the many decisions a composer faces today in crafting (or discovering) her/his own artistic ‘voice’.
http://www.newmusicbox.com/article.nmbx?id=4767
◙ “Composer: Living American Woman“ November/December 2005
Originally the Keynote Address for the National Conference on Women in the Arts, University of Missouri, Saint Louis, MO. (11/12/05)
Condensed for December 2005 publication by the online magazine of the American Music Center.
Being born a composer affects everything, channeling how we act in the private sphere (as spouse and parent) to all emphases of work as thinker, scholar, and teacher, and our perceptions of and responses to professional and world events.
On the Internet: http://www.newmusicbox.com/article.nmbx?id=4454
◙ “A Woman of Valor” - composer interview
Milken Archive of Jewish Music
http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf? function=detail&ID=103
Doctoral papers on Zaimont works, current and recent
“The Role of the Piano in Selected Chamber Works of Judith Lang Zaimont”
-- Jennifer Muñiz (Manhattan School of Music, 2004)
“The Compositional Style of Judith Lang Zaimont as found in Nattens Monolog
(Night Soliloquy), scena for Soprano and Piano with text by
Dag Hammarskjold”
-- Joo Wun Jun (Louisiana State University, 2005)
Posted on Internet at : http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-05212005-102450/
Zaimont’s Piano Music: WIZARDS and Jupiter’s Moons.
– Janet Norman (Arizona State University, in progress
Zaimont’s approach to the Piano – music for differing technical levels:
Jupiter’s Moons and In My Lunchbox.
-- Rebecca Pennington (University of Kansas , in progress)
“Veriditas: Enlivened Creativity in selected works of Judith Zaimont,
Libby Larsen and Juliana Hall”. Music for voice.
-- Sharon Johnson (University of Minnesota, in progress)