Monday, February 28, 2000

Composition prof’s work available on CD

Two new compact discs featuring the music of Lewis Nielson, a professor of composition in the School of Music, are making his music more than ever available to national and international audiences.
The new CDs are Vortex, devoted entirely to Nielson’s music, and MMC New Century, Volume IX, in which the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra plays the works of four composers, including Nielson’s “Crosscurrents on the Vertical River.”
The Vortex album includes four works, “Trio,” “Étude,” “Break Out!” and “There is a Gate.” “Étude” is the largest-scale piano work Nielson has composed and is performed on the album by Andrew Santander, who lives in Athens and is director of instrumental music at Gainesville College.
Nielson is now working on a solo piece for cello, and a requiem for mixed chorus and chamber orchestra, which he calls “an introverted piece.”
The CDs are available locally at Best Buy or can be obtained by writing the CD companies: For Vortex, ACA Digital Recording Inc., P.O. Box 450727, Atlanta, GA 31145; and for MMC New Century, Volume IX at MMC Recordings, P.O. Box 2127 Woburn, MA 01888.
--Phil Williams
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