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ADIRONDAK MORN and SANTA BARBARA are the first two pieces of a suite for piano in progress
entitled American Images. The next three pieces will be titled "Joshua Tree," "The Everglades," and
"The Space Needle." The composer has traveled extensively throughout the USA and been very
impressed with the beauty, scope and varicty of imzges in the United States.
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ILYA DIMOV studied composition with ~.~ildanov and later with professor F.Yanov-Yanovsky at the State
Conservatory of Tashkent city (Uzbekistan) bhere he received his Master's degrc-. 17- !;as written a number of
compsotions for puppet theatre shows, movies, cartoon films, and chamber compositioris. In 1986 he became a
member of the USSR Composer League. In 1990 DIMOV immigrated to Israel where he taught composition,
harmony and music theory for 10 years at the conservatories of music of Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, and Ashdod.
Also, he published a number of musical pieces and arrangements for chamber ensembles that were later
performed at various international festivals of contemporary music and piano competitions in Israel, Russia.
Hong-Kong, USA and several Western European countries, such as Belgium, Germany, and E'ugoslavia.
CYALIZ AND KAti17ME (1 995) begad as incidental music for Anton Checkov'r The Seagull.
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JACOB ROSS FRUMKIN began music wiling at the age of ten. He is studying and performing on trombone
and piano.
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ROBERT ARNOLD HALL (b. Boston, MA) has studied with Music Faculty at San Jose State University, and
performed on reeds, cello, and voice.. He has written music over 40 years, especislly in the last ten.
Instrumental compositions include works for ,large and small ensembles, and solo instruments. Hall is currently
writing a series of suites fur unaccompaiiied, violin. Vocal works include many with piano and ensembles. I?
musical theater work for broadcast, based dn Don Marquis's cockroach poet, urc:Iy!, is being sponsored by
Vermont Public Television. He is completing a short song cycle, Nine Eleven, for voices and ensemble. With
eminent librettist Elise Thoron, Hall is writing an opera on the Lewis and Clark story, and another on writings
of Lewis Caroll. Information about many OF these works, including audio and visual clips can be reached at
http://www.Music-Hall.net. These include recordings of Lullaby and other episodes fiom the opera, and a video
of a puppet performance uT a ~ig, "a~cliyl I~t;(n liur~~ 111a.t 3." His woi k has been performed by iluliierous
ensembles in Northern California. He is a mkmber of NACUSA, ASCAP, and the hmericaa? Music Center.
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The composer and his 1 1-year old grindson, Jacob Ross Frumkin, were to;a:l-I-d Ly a lost cat notice on a
telephone pole and used it, with elaboration, for the text of 358. The duo also collaborated on PIPER,
fiom a text by Seamus O'Sullivan, the penname for James Sullivan Starkey (1879-1958), the Dublin
born writer who founded and edited 7he Dublin Magazine. The anonymous Lancashire poet who wrote
WDDING is one of many writing in !'Lanky," an ~ n~lish dialect.
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SALLY MOUZON, mezzo-soprano, has appeared with many Bay Area companies in opera, operetta, and
oratorio, including roleswith Opera San lose! West Bay Opera, and San Francisco Opera, where she created the
role of SisterLillianne in the world premiere of Jake Heggie's Dead Man walk in‘^. M3r.t rcazntly she was heard
in Charles Gounod's Faust with Sacramento:Opera. She is a hll-time, tenured member of the San Francisco
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Mezzo-soprano HARRIET MARCH PAGE is Artistic Director of Goat Hall Productions, San Francisco's
Cabaret Opera Company. She has directed many music dramas, including Mark Alburger's Antigone; Henry
Miller in Brooklyn; and 7he Little Prince; ,Leonard Bernstein's Carldide and TrozrEle irl Tahiti; Gian-Carlo
Menotti's Amah1 and the Night Visitors and, 7he Consul; Sarah Michael's Arachne; W.A. Mozart's Cosi Fan
Tuttr and Ihe Magic Flute, Lisa Prosek's Satyrrcon; and Kurt Weill's Thr-eepen1z.v OL.era Ms Page has appeared
on the stage as Mr. Martin in Alburger's The Bald Soprano and Baba in Menotti's 'The Mcdium, and will sing the
role of Maurya in an upcoming presentation of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Riders to the Sea at Holy Names
College Four of her performance pieces --' CATS, DOGS, AND DIVAS; Flying Ozct he Mouth; Out on the
Porch; and Be Wind God -- have been set as: operas by Alburger.
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