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I BRIAN HOLMES is a Professor of Physics at San Jose State University. swcializing in the rrhvsics of musical instruments. The oast I
year has seen premieres of Now is the hme, commissio~ed by the stadford symphokc chomnr* the Cantabile Children's ~horus,'and
the Peninsula Symphony; Three Songs for women's chov and piano, commissioned by the Peninsula Women's Chorus; and Updike's
Science (settings of six poems about science by John Updike) for high voice and band, premiered by the Connecticut College Band.
Joyjiul Noise, settings of four poems by Paul Fleisc- will be premiered tomorrow night by the Cantabile Children's Chorus.
Homes recently received an ASCAP Standard Award, won the Amadeus Choir Christmas Carol Writing Contest (for the fourth time
in a decade), and won the Diana Barnhart American Song Competition. In addition, five of his pieces have been accepted for
publication by Thorpe Music Publishing and Thompson )Edition.
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A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, WARNER EPSON has been composing in San Francisco for theatre (A.C.T.), film (The Bed), I
dance (San Francisco Ballet's Totentanz], museum and gallery openings (music made on the then-new Buchla synthesizer), video
(composer-in- residence at KQED's National Center for Experiments in TV, 5 programs for PBS, and an NEA Grant). His first works
as well as more recent ones were musicals (Sun ~rancisio's Burning ran six months; The Money Tree played in Chicago in '97).
OWEN LEE, born near Stanford University, was educaiFd at the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied with Andrew
Imbrie, and at the University of California at Los Angelys, where he studied with Paul Reale, Roy Travis, and Henri Lazarof, Dr. Lee
is now an Instructor of Music and Director of Music Theory at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA.
ROBERT STINE has written works in a wide variety of genres, including orchestra, string quartet, various mixed chamber ensembles,
solo piano, guitar, music for film, and quite a few works combining electronic sounds, and solo instruments. He studied composition
at the University of North Carolina with Roger Hannay b d at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Donald Erb and Eugene OIBrien
where he received his Doctorate in 1980. Some of his mlilsic is available at www.mp3.comlrobertstine.
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SUMMER SOUND for Flute and Electronic sounds (1988) is after an excerpt from Wallace Stevens's The Idea o/Order at
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DALE VICTORINE began composing in high school1 and studied composition at Hartnell College. He has written a variety of
compositions, including piano and organ works, songs, yhoral settings, a symphony for concert band, a violin and piano sonata, and a
string quartet. His inspiration comes from the greats of classical music.
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Lone Griwold - SPRING MAY (e.e. cummings) I Robert Stine - SUMMER SOUND
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spring! may-
everywhere's here
[&th Q ln.xr himh In..,
and the bud on the bough)
how?why
-we never we how
(so kiss me\ shv wet P ~ W P ~ I V
I (Wallace Stevens - from Idea of Order at Key West
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I If it was only the dark voice of the sea,
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71rn+ ..Arm A.. mrrnn rnlnmrl I., mn ny waves;
I If it was only the outer voice of sky
I And cloud, of the sunken coral water-walled,
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However clear, it would have been deep air,
I The hpavino of air, a summer sound
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(die! live) -,
I the new is the true
I and to lose is to have
-we never we how-
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Kepeatea m a summer without end
And sound alone. But it was more than that.
Mnre ------ men -.--. than -.-- her ---- vnice . ----, and --- nllrs, -- among
The mean' .'--- '
ungess plungngs
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or water and the wind,
Theatrical distances . , hrnnze -. - -. - -- shadows h e ~ d I -- - . -. - - -- r--
On high horizons, n nountainous atmospheres
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I brave! brave
(the earth and the sky
are one today)my very so gay
young love
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why?how-
-we never we how
(with a high low high
in the may in the spring)
live!die
(forever is now)
and dance you suddenly blossoming tree
-i'u sing