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actual performance is improvised.
NANCY BLOOMER DEUSSEN is well known vghout the San Francisco Bay Area as a composer, performer, arts organizer
and music educator. She is a leader in the growing movement for more melodic, tonally4riented contemporary music, and is
co-founder of the SF Bay Chapter of the National Association of Composers, USA. Her works have been performed throughout
the US and Canada and she has received numerouslcommissions both laally and nationally h m such performers and ensembles
as The Oakland Chamber Orchestra, The Walnut Sfreet Chamber Ensemble, The Baton Rouge Concert Band, The Bresquan Trio,
The Santa Clara Chorale, The Women's Caucus $ the Arts, OPUS 90 Chamber Ensemble, clarinetist Richard Nunemaker, the
Tanana High School Band, the Gabrieli Brass, Soundmoves, the Mission Chamber Orchestra, flutist Angela Koregelos, the
Semper Virens environmental group, The Sandusp Music Festival, ,Jim and Pat Watt, and Mu Phi Epsilon Some recent
performances of her works for the 1999-2000 seaaon include Woodwind Quintet by the Stanford Woodwind Quintet and The
World is a Butterfly's Wing (song cycle) at the kere Guard Festival in San Francisco
I ftrst met Allen Cohen, the poet whose words I have used for this song cycle, at a meeting of poets and composers
achieved recognition as a painter and writer.