Allan Blank Exhibit Introduction and Concert program

Allan Blank and the Creative Process
DIEHN COMPOSERS ROOM, OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY, April 26-May 31, 2001

THIS ELECTRONIC EXHIBITION IS BASED ON

A concert of works by Allan Blank,
Composer-in-Residence With Virginia Chamber Players
produced by Old Dominion University Libraries as part of the
Virginia Arts Festival 2001

and an exhibit of manuscripts, photographs and other realia from the
Allan Blank Collection in the Diehn Composers Room.

"Allan Blank’s passion for new music is evident in a lifetime of composition, performance and teaching. From training at Juilliard and New York University in violin performance to an 18-year career teaching composition at Virginia Commonwealth University where he is now Professor Emeritus, Blank has composed both instrumental and vocal pieces. He has won national competitions, including the George Eastman Competition and the Eric Satie Award, earning him scores of commissions and resulting in dozens of recordings. This performance is an amazing glimpse into his creative body of work."

--From the 2001 Season catalog for the Virginia Arts Festival

Concert program:

To hear selections of the music from this program, click here

Knock on Wood

Tim Bishop, Robert W. Cross, Scott Jackson, John Lindburg, percussion

Playtime--Introduction and two movements for flute and piano

Debra Wendells Cross, flute
Charles Woodward, piano

Diversions, for solo clarinet

David Nietheimer, clarinet

Four Poems by Walt Whitman [premiere]

Tod Fitzpatrick, baritone
Charles Woodward, piano

String Quartet: 1998, No.1 [premiere]

Vahn Armstrong, violin
Amanda Gates Armstrong, violin
Beverly Baker, viola
Michael Daniels, violoncello

Nocturne, for Bassoon and Harp

Steve Wilson, bassoon
Barbara Chapman, harp

Trio for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord [premiere]

Debra Wendells Cross, flute
Vahn Armstrong, violin
Oksana Lutsyshn, harpsichord

Two Songs, for mezzo-soprano [premiere]

The Pebble
To My Dear & Loving Husband

Lisa Costens, mezzo-soprano