by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner as published in the IAWM Journal, June 1994, pp. 11.
Work on the complete catalog of women's classical music on compact disc continues. As of right now I am through the "M's"; happily, there are many more recordings of music by women than I realized. The final catalog will contain several hundred entries, so get your checkbooks and credit cards ready!
Many thanks to those of you who have contributed your suggestions and corrections to my initial article. Elizabeth Pizer answered a question which had puzzled me too: Karen Khachaturian is not a woman; he is in fact, the nephew of Aram Khachaturian! In addition, Elizabeth has provided me with the names and addresses of three compact disc retailers which specialize in the mail-order business:
Bose Express Compact Disc World
The Mountain P.O. Box 927
Framington, MA 01701 South Plainfield, NJ 07080
1-800-451-BOSE 1-800-83-MUSIC
Records International (specializes in import labels)
P.O. Box 1140
Goleta, CA 93116-1140
805-687-0327
Monica Jakuc, professor of music at Smith College and the performer on the disc that I listed as, Marianne Martinez: Sonatas in A and E for Harpsichord, emphasized that the recording also contains works by Joseph Haydn and Marianna von Auenbrugger. The works on the disc were written for "harpsichord or fortepiano" and Monica performs them all on the fortepiano. The disc is on the Titanic label (TI 214) and is a quite fine recording.
Finally, Joseph R. Dalton, managing director of Composers' Recordings Inc., has provided me with a listing of recent releases by CRI which were not given in the Opus catalog. I personally own all of these recordings and find them to be fine collections of modern music and very well-performed. An upcoming issue of the ILWC Journal will contain my review of Alice Shields' Apocalypse listed here.
New Releases by CRI
Bang on a Can Live, vol.2 featuring Lois Vierk "Red Shift"; Elizabeth Brown "Migration - In Memory of Julie Farrell"; Shelly Hirsh/David Weinstein "Haiku Lingo." [Emergency Music CD 646]
Alice Shields. Apocalypse: An Electronic Opera. [CRI CD 647]
Urban Diva, Dora Ohrenstein, soprano featuring Linda Bouchard "Black Burned Wood" (text by John O'Keefe); Anne LeBaron "Dish" (text by Jessica Hagedonn). [Emergency Music CD 654]
Figure 88, Kathleen Supove, piano featuring Marti Epstein Waterbowls. [Emergency Music CD 653]
Ruth Crawford. Suite for Wind Quintet; Three Carl Sandburg Songs; Study in Mixed Accents; Nine Preludes; Sonata for Violin and Piano; Diaphonic Suite No. 1. cd reissue. [American Masters CD 658]
Tania Leon. Indigena for chamber orchestra; Parajota Delate for chamber ensemble; Ritual for solo piano; Ala Par for piano and percussion (collaboration with Michel Camilo). [eXchange CD 662]
Over the next few months CRI will be releasing the following recordings featuring new music by women:
Victoria Jordanova. Requiem for Bosnia: An Improvisation for Broken Piano, Harp, and Child's Voice; Four Preludes for Harp; Once Upon a Time; Variations for Harp. [eXchange CD 673]
Cassatt. Cassatt String Quartet featuring Tina Davidson Cassandra Sings; Julia Wolfe Four Marys; Eleanor Hovda Lemniscates [Emergency Music CD 671]
Bang on a Can Live vol. 3 featuring Linda Bouchard Lung Ta for string quartet; Bunita Marcus Adam and Eve for chamber ensemble; Mary Wright Lizard Belly Moon for three electric guitars. [Emergency Music CD 672]
In addition, excerpts from Shields' Apocalypse, Jordanova's Requiem for Bosnia, and Joan Tower's Petroushskates will be featured on The Composer Performer: Forty Years of Discovery, a CRI retrospective recording. [CRI CD 670]
CRI recordings can be found in most major classical music stores or can be obtained by writing to CRI, 73 Spring Street Suite 506, New York, NY 10012-5800.
Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner is currently finishing a visiting year as director of the Experimental Music Studios at the University of Iowa. Other teaching positions held by Hinkle-Turner have been at the University of Illinois and the Oberlin Conservatory. She is a member of the board of directors of American Women Composers Inc. and the treasurer-elect for the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). Hinkle-Turner has recently formed a multimedia production company, Woman With Technology Inc., in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois where she will also be completing her text, Crossing the Line: Women Composers and Music Technology in North America, and an instructional CD-ROM, An Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music. She has won awards from Mu Phi Epsilon, Meet the Composer, and the American Music Center, and has been composer-in-residence at the Studios für electronische Musik of West Deutscher Rundfunk in Köln.