From Whence Butterflies?
a fantasy for piano and electronics
duration: 8 minutes; published by Elm Creek Music
commissioned by Jerome Reed, 1987
Additional research support received from
the Abilene Christian University
Research Council.
Program Notes:
From Whence Butterflies? is a fantasy for piano and tape and one of a
series of six similar works. The composition's title is taken
by permission from a haiku by Joy Shieman of Los Altos, California.
It is also one of five Shieman haiku set by Reid in a song cycle
entitled Tear
on a Child's Cheek.
The entire seventeen syllable text is:
From whence butterflies?
Thirteen years descends the stairs
in long yellow gown.
The realization employs Yamaha TX series
synthesis modules.
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Audio:
Performance by
pianist Jerome Reed 
Performance by
pianist Kay Williams
electronics only
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Selected Performance History:
- March 1999, Abilene Christian University,
performance by Kay Williams on Texas Computer Musician's Network
concert.
- February, 1998, University of Texas
(Austin), College Music Society workshop performance by Lora
Deahl.
- September, 1995, Abilene Christian University,
Lubbock Christian University & Texas Tech University by soloist
Kay Williams.
- March, 1995, SEAMUS National Conference,
Ithaca, NY
- February 1994, Texas Composers Festival,
Austin, TX (JR)
- October 1993, Southwest Craft Center,
New Music Now!, San Antonio, TX
- March, 1993, at the Festival of Women
Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.
(JR)
- January, 1993, broadcast on 4MBS FM,
Brisbane, Australia (JR)
- November 1992, Tulane Univeristy, New
Orleans, LA
- October 1992, included in a DAT tape
entitled Women and Technology for broadcast distribution. The
tape was compiled by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner of the Oberlin Conservatory
of Music. The work was discussed by professor Hinkle-Turner in
an article entitled "Recent Electro-Acoustic Music by Women"
(ILWC Journal, October, 1992). (JR)
- March 1992, SCI National Conference,
Tuscaloosa, AL (JR)
- November, 1991, during American Music
Week at Abilene Christian University
- March 1990, Hardin-Simmons University,
Abilene, TX
- October, 1989, Composers Concordance,
CAMI Hall, New York City, NY (JR)
- May, 1989, Hochshule der Musik in Heidelberg,
Germany (JR)
- Spring, 1989, Jerome Reed lecture/tour
at Hartt School of Music, University of Connecticut and the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. (JR)
- April, 1989, regional SCI meeting, UTSA,
San Antonio, TX
- April, 1988, Memphis State University
New Music Festival, Memphis, TN (JR)
- November, 1987, Harding University,
Searcy, AR (JR)
- March, 1987, Abilene Christian University
- premiére performance (JR soloist)
- October 2, 1986 - Performance of sketches
from From Whence Butterflies? by the composer during a Recital
of Original Works by Sally Reid at Abilene Christian University
in Abilene, TX.
(JR) - designates performances by Dr. Jerome Reed
Performer
NOTES:
From Whence Butterflies?
commissioned by Piano Soloist - Jerome Reed
Dr. Jerome Reed is on the faculty of David
Lipscomb College in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a specialist in
piano/tape works, and is recorded on the Capstone Record label.
Dr. Reed received his D.M.A. degree from the Catholic University
of America where he was a student of Béla Börzörményi-Nagy.
His previous teachers have included Mme. Jeanne-Marie Darré
of the Paris Conservatoire, concert pianist Allison Nelson, and
Dr. Jerry Perkins at Middle Tennessee State University. At the
age of eleven, he began studies at the Blair Academy of Music
in Nashville, where he received the Myra Jackson Blair Scholarship
four years consecutively. He has served as a guest recitalist,
clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer throughout the Southeast.
he has been on the advisory board of the Tennessee Arts Commission
and is Past-President of the Tennessee Music Teachers Association.
His work in the medium of piano and tape has led to performances
at many new music festivals across the country.
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