Sally Reid
Recent Commissions:
- commission from the 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum for a work for symphonic band, Triumph Fantasy, commemorating the opening of the museum on October 6, 2001 in Abilene, Texas.
- commission from Sonja Baker at James Madison University for an adaptation of Let it Take Years for soprano, violin and piano, March 2000.
- commission from the Price Duo for a color piece for clarinet
and piano, Elegy. The work received its premiere performance
in January 1999 and was performed by the Price Duo in numerous
concerts across the U.S. and Europe in 1999.
- invitation from the Vatican to submit a work to a "contest
by invitation" for the Jubilee Hymn for the Year 2000. Premiere
performance in Abilene, December 1997.
- commission from the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica
and the City of Fiuggi, Italy, expressly for the international
symposium "Donne in Musica: Gli Incontri al Borgo."
Fiuggi Fanfare (transcription
for concert band) received a premiére performance during
the festival by Paul Wehage the Fiuggi Community Band, September
1997.
- commission from the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica
and the City of Fiuggi, Italy, expressly for the international
symposium "Donne in Musica: Gli Incontri al Borgo."
Fiuggi Fanfare (for
five saxophones) received a premiére performance during
the festival (seven concert venues) by Paul Wehage and Donne
in Sax, September 1996.
- commission from Richard Nunemaker (Houston Symphony) and
Suzanne Summerville (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) for The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska (mezzo-soprano and clarinet), premiere
performance in February 1994.
- commission from the Alaska Council on the Arts for A
Carousel Fantasy (brass quintet and synthesized carousel),
the final movement of Pieces for a Park, premiere performance
in Alaskaland theme park, August 1993.
- commission from the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra for A Rainbow Shines There: a rhapsody for orchestra and digital sounds, with additional
grant support from Abilene Christian University's Council on
Research and Creative Activity and a Margaret Fairbank Jory copyist
assistance grant from the American Music Center. Premiére
performance in March 1991.
Aesthetic Statement
Sally Reid's compositions include works in both acoustic and
electro-acoustic media. Her works employ tonality in a way that
is both fresh and approachable. Her compositions have been referred
to as "stunning and whimsical" (MCF, Nov. 1993) and
"charmingly demented" ( ILWC Journal, June 1994).
Her series for tape and soloist(s) explores the expressive
qualities common between instrument and synthesizer. Reid's Sorrow's Moment: a rhapsody for
orchestra and digital sounds, includes the real-time synchronization
of sequenced synthesis with orchestra. 
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