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Headline Update for Fall 2007-Spring 2008


◙ “Is HARD an Issue?”
Zaimont essay requested for publication in Notations 21: An Anthology of Innovative Musical Notations (Theresa Tisano, ed.; New York: Mark Batty Publishers March 2008)

Volume also includes offprints of select pages from two Zaimont compositions, The Magic World: Ritual Music for Three, and “A Closed Fist” from SPIRALS for String Trio).

◙ “Imaging the Composer Today” - IAWM Journal - September 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) delivered before the College Music Society national meeting, September 2006, San Antonio.

Also:

  • Summer 2007 issue of Clavier - Composer Interview “I love a Parade”

  • Remaining on the Internet:
    • "The Matter of Style" NewMusicBox - August 2007
    "To what wxtent is a style something knowingly applied by a composer?"
    http://www.newmusicbox.com/article.nmbx?id=4767

    "A Woman of Valor" - composer interview
    Milken Archive of Jewish Music
    http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?...

    Doctoral papers on Zaimont works, current and recent

    “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)

    Also on the Internet:

    “The Compositional Style of Judith Lang Zaimont as found in Nattens Monolog (Night Soliloquy), scena for Soprano and Piano with text by Dag Hammarskjold ” Music for voice.
    -- Joo Wun Jun (Louisiana State University, 2005)
    http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-05212005-102450/

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