I recently started teaching piano at home in Irvine, California. Let me know if you or your children would like lessons.
The big news:
I have been been working with New York video artist Dmitriy Khavin to create two new videos based on my Pennyroyal Swale for string quartet. Mr. Khavin matched the music to the magnificent Kentucky landscapes and other photos of James Archambeault (http://www.jamesarchambeault.com/ . Both videos are now completed and posted on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/).
To view the videos, go to the YouTube homepage and type in Pennyroyal Swale or Beth Anderson. You can also go directly to the videos with these links:
Pennyroyal Swale, Part 1 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H31YzXCq0Sg
Pennyroyal Swale, Part 2 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfPcu_buWkg
Other info:
I am a composer from Kentucky, went to school in northern California, and live in Brooklyn, New York. I am the host of a concert series in Manhattan called Women's Work. Women's Work has a MySpace page too you might like to see. My web site is beth(at)beand(dot)com.
My Current Recordings are:
SWALES & ANGELS this all-Beth Anderson CD from New World includes March Swale, Pennyroyal Swale, January Swale, Rosemary Swale, Piano Concerto, New Mexico Swale, and The Angel. It can be ordered from amazon.com or from Tower Records. The wonderful performers include the Rubio String Quartet, Jessica Marsten, Joseph Kubera, Gary Schneider, Andrew Bolotowsky, David Rozenblatt, Darren Campbell, and Andre Tarantilles. Fanfare Magazine had a review and a feature article about my work in their September/October 2004 issue and this recording has received a lot of positive press.
QUILT MUSIC American Record Guide Critics' Choice Selection for 2005! On Albany Records (TROY709) this is an all-Beth Anderson CD including the large piano piece, Quilt Music, performed by Joseph Kubera along with three song cycles (Cat Songs, Dreaming Fields, and Harlem Songs) performed by baritone Keith Borden with pianist Johannes Wallmann, and four violin and piano pieces (Belgian Tango, Dr. Blood's Mermaid Lullaby, and Tales 1-2) performed by violinist Ana Milosavljevic, with pianist Terezija Cukrov. There is also a new swale - Cleveland Swale performed by Darren Campbell & Kirsty Matheson, string bass, and Johannes Wallmann, piano. The cover is a photograph of one of my grandmother's crazy quilts. Order from amazon.com
AMERICAN WOMEN: Modern Voices In Piano Music recorded by Nancy Boston includes SEPTEMBER SWALE along with new piano music by American women composers Deussen, Galbraith, Zaimont, Moon and Diemer released September 2006. Available from CD Baby. You can hear some at http://cdbaby.com/cd/nancyboston
POINTS OF ENTRY:The Laurels Project Vol. I Comment for flute solo (based on a poem by Dorothy Parker) is out on a Capstone CD (CPS-8759) performed by Nina Assimakopoulos.
SONGS IN TRANSIT: An American Expedition Soprano Melanie Mitrano recorded Lullaby (words by Auden) and Beauty Runs Faster (words by the composer) for her new CD on Capstone CPS-8756. Jonathan Woolf at MusicWeb International says: "...Beauty Runs Faster is ...delicious..." You can hear parts of the songs at: capstonerecords.org and capstonerecords.org Visit Melanie at melaniemitrano.com
PEACHY KEEN-O The all-Beth Anderson CD includes Country Time, Torero Piece (the 7:49 version), Tower of Power, Peachy Keen-O, Ocean Motion Mildew Mind, Yes Sir Ree, I Can't Stand It, Joan and Ode performed by Wharton Tiers, Michael Blair, Kitty Mraw, Ana Perez, Linda Collins, Beth and Marjorie Anderson including text-sound, graphic scores, electro-acoustic, and electronic music on Peachy Keen-O, Pogus 21030-2 CD, 2003
Order from amazon.com or write Pogus, 50 Ayr Rd., Chester, NY 10918-2409 or go to pogus.com for more info and to order using Pay Pal
Two by Three Net Work (piano solo, Mary Kathleen Earnst, pianist)
Trio: dream in d for violin, cello and piano on Two by Three: Music by Women, North South Recordings, 1998
Order from amazon.com Two by Three
Minnesota Swale performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony, conducted by Joel Eric Suben on New Music for Orchestra, Opus One, 1995 Order from amazon.com
Chilli Con Tango
September Swale for mandolin and guitar performed by Daniel Ahlert & Birgit Schwab on Chilli Con Tango, available on Antes/Bella Musica CD 31.9153 To hear some of it, go to newmusicbox.org. Order from amazon.com
Truth About Love
Lullaby for voice and piano performed by Francis John Vogt & Ginger Yang Hwalek available on Capstone Records CDS-8702 entitled The Truth About Love: music and the poetry of W. H. Auden. Order from amazon.com
And here's a recent performance:
April 20, 2008
KENTUCKY SWALE for string orchestra was performed in Beijing, China in the Hall of the Forbidden City by the string orchestra of the China Conservatory at the IAWM conference there.
