Commissions
Since its inception, Sage City Symphony has commissioned works from numerous composers. Following are links to websites or other information about a few of these composers. Commissioned composers not listed with works below include Robert Singley, Susan Hurley, Alice Spatz, and Su Lian Tan.
E (for Ekin) for symphony and jazz quartet by Leo Yucht, performed May 19, 2019
Appalachian Trail Symphony by Keane Southard, performed March 20, 2018
Commissioned work by Vermont composer Robert (Zeke) Hecker, performed May 22, 2016
Seven Seals for symphony and chorus by Marjorie Rooen; first movement performed March 13, 2016; additional movements performed in subsequent concerts; complete four-movement work performed March 10, 2019
XLIV by Rolando Gori, performed May 16, 2015
Kora Saba: For Djembe and Chamber Orchestra by Michael Wimberly, performed November 16, 2014, with soloist Michael Wimberly
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Allen Shawn, performed in 1999, and with solo cellist Maxine Neuman on May 18, 2014
Table of Toys and Numbers by Nick Brooke, performed in May 2012
Commissioned work by John Eagle, performed in May 2011
Mountain Path by Bruce Hobson, performed in May 2000
The Birthmark by Robert (Zeke) Hecker, performed in 1989
Blood Memory: A Long Quiet After the Call by Tina Davidson, performed in 1986
Symphony for Orchestra with Piano Obligato by Thomas L. Read, performed in 1986
Missa Brevis, Opus 72, by Louis Calabro, written for the Bennington College Chorus and recorded in 1984: Sage City Symphony
Tundra, by Michael Finckel
Sonnet for Baritone and Orchestra by Vivian Fine, text by John Keats, with baritone Wayne Dalton, performed December 5, 1976
Concerto for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra by Marta Ptaszynska, performed in October 1974
Concerto, Nomads by Henry Brant, performed in 1974, conducted by the composer
Young Composers Program
Sage City Symphony has initiated a Young Composers project, in which a mentor works with college or high school students to write original compositions and score them for performance by the Symphony. Links to info about past student composers are shown below:
Sage City Symphony Presents Youth Concert This Sunday, Bennington Banner, March 14, 2014
Bennington College Student's Work to Premiere, March 2012
Eastwick Press, Local Student Composer to Premiere Work, March 2011
Patrick A Madden of Mount Greylock HS receives the Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship
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