|
Year |
Date |
Composition |
Composer |
Type of Premiere |
Conductor |
|
1937 |
Feb 4 |
Dance of the Daffodils |
Harry McLellan |
(U) |
Melrose |
|
1942 |
Mar 25 |
American Mood |
Peggy Stuart |
(W) |
Cook |
|
1958 |
Jan 22 |
Variations on Airs by Supply Belcher |
Peter Re |
(W) |
Poto |
|
1961 |
Apr 12 |
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E Major |
Felix Mendelssohn |
(US) |
Gregorian |
|
1963 |
Nov 19 |
Icelandic Overture |
Jón Leif |
(US) |
Lipkin |
|
1963 |
Nov 19 |
Fantasy Variations |
Ulysses Kay |
(W) |
Lipkin |
|
1964 |
Nov 10 |
Signs of the Zodiac |
Daniel Pinkham |
(W) |
Lipkin |
|
1965 |
Nov 16 |
Pine Tree Fantasy |
Walter Piston |
(W) |
Lipkin |
|
1965 |
Dec 7 |
Music for Orchestra (with electronic tape) |
Elliot Schwartz |
(W) |
Lipkin |
|
1967 |
Apr 11 |
Legend of Olurounbi |
Akin Euba |
(W) |
Lipkin |
|
1967 |
Apr 11 |
Holy City, Op. 218 |
Alan Hovhaness |
(W) |
Lipkin |
|
1967 |
Dec 5 |
Symphony No. 4 |
Mozart Camargo Guarnieri |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1968 |
Feb 13 |
Magic Music for Orchestra, Piano and Other Sounds |
Elliott Schwartz |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1968 |
Mar 5 |
Overture - Food of Love |
Richard A. S. Arnell |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1969 |
Jan 14 |
Concerto Grosso No. 2 |
Linda Ostrander |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1970 |
Feb 3 |
Symphony No. 3 |
Jerry L. Bowder |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1970 |
Dec 8 |
A Dedication Overture, Op. 11 |
Morton Gold |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1971 |
Mar 5 |
Island |
Elliott Schwartz |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1972 |
Jan 25 |
Three Ballads From the Catskills, for Small Orchestra, Opus 52 |
Norman Cazden |
(ME) |
Vermel |
|
1972 |
Feb 9 |
String Quartet No. 1 |
Jerry Bowder |
(W) |
(PSQ) |
|
1974 |
Nov 12 |
Concerto For Viola |
Norman Cazden |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1975 |
Feb 11 |
The Harmony of Maine, for Synthesizer and Orchestra |
Elliott Schwartz |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1975 |
Feb 9 |
Piano Concerto |
Morton Gold |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1976 |
Apr 6 |
Celebration Music 1976 |
Jerry Bowder |
(W) |
Vermel |
|
1976 |
Oct 26 |
Concerto for String Quartet, Winds and Percussion |
Walter Piston |
(W) |
Hangen |
|
1979 |
Feb 13 |
Grisaille |
Barbara Kolb |
(W) |
Hangen |
|
1980 |
Dec |
("Magic of Christmas") Orchestra Fanfare |
Hank Beebe |
(W) |
Hangen |
|
1981 |
Mar 17 |
Ode to Lord Buckley, (Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra) |
David Amram |
(W) |
Hangen |
|
1982 |
Apr 13 |
Heritage 350 |
Terry White |
(W) |
Hangen |
|
1983 |
Jan 18 |
Orchestral Variations |
Louis Karchin |
(W) |
Hangen |
|
1984 |
Apr 7 |
Walden Suite for Jazz Flute and Orchestra |
Corey Allen |
(W) |
Hangen |
|
1985 |
Oct 15 |
Celebrations/Reflections (A Time Warp) |
Elliott Schwartz |
(W) |
Hangen |
|
1988 |
Feb 9 |
Symphony No. 6 |
Paul Cooper |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
1989 |
Sept 21 |
Fanfare for a New Season |
Jerry Bowder |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
1992 |
Oct 13 |
Rowing in Eden |
Philip Carlsen |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
1993 |
Jan 24 |
Concerto Grosso for Strings and Harpsichord |
Vladimír Godár |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
1993 |
Apr 14* |
Hymn and Variant |
Terrence White |
(W) |
Noyes |
|
1993 |
Apr 14** |
Ronde for Isolde |
David Bedford |
(W) |
Martin |
|
1993 |
Apr 14** |
Of Sailor and Whales |
W. Francis McBeth |
(W) |
Martin |
|
1994 |
Oct 4 |
Equinox: Concerto for Orchestra |
Elliott Schwartz |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
1995 |
Feb 28 |
The Sun in Leo Dances |
Thomas Myron |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
1995 |
Apr 11* |
The Lighthouse |
Michal Braz |
(W) |
Noyes |
|
1997 |
Apr 2 |
The Maine Collection (Combined Collective Works of seven Maine Composers): |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
|
--Vocalise |
Jerry Bowder |
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|
1997 |
May 10 |
Organ Concerto No. 3 (1996) |
Daniel Pinkham |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
1997 |
Nov 18 |
Chernobyl |
Nancy Van de Vate |
(US) |
Shimada |
|
1998 |
Mar 31 |
Two Poems |
Derek Holman |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
1999 |
Nov 9 |
A Peacock Southeast Flew: Concerto for Pipa and Orchestra |
Nancy Van de Vate |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
2000 |
Mar 17 |
O Speak Again Bright Angel |
Thomas Myron |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
2001 |
Oct 20 |
Adagio for Strings, (Lament for Kosovo) |
Betty Beath |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
2002 |
Oct 8 |
Voyager |
Elliott Schwartz |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
2003 |
Sept 20 |
Music from the movie “Katahdin, (Greatest Mountain)” |
Thomas Myron |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
2004 |
Nov 13 |
Shining Sails |
Thomas Myron |
(W) |
Shimada |
|
2008 |
Apr 13 |
Three Longfellow Poems |
Vineet Shende |
(W) |
Polivnick |
|
2010 |
Mar 9 |
Congo |
Christopher Staknys |
(W) |
Moody |
|
2010 |
Mar 28 |
Mandolin Concerto (Ad astra per alas porci) |
Christopher Thile |
(NE) |
Terrell |
|
2010 |
Nov 21 |
Travels in Time for Three |
Christopher Brubeck |
(ME) |
Moody |
|
2011 |
Jan 25 |
Diamond Jubilee |
Elliott Schwartz |
(W) |
Moody |
|
2011 |
Apr 5 |
Prelude for Piano |
Silas Price |
(W) |
Moody |
|
2013 |
Apr 29 |
From Here On |
Karl Munroe |
(W) |
Moody |
|
2014 |
June 17 |
Le tombeau de Couperin (Fugue and Toccata; arr. Kenneth Hesketh) |
Maurice Ravel |
(US) |
Moody |
|
2014 |
Oct 27 |
Allegro in G Major |
Soren Nyhus |
(W) |
Moody |
|
2015 |
Feb 17 |
Becoming Beethoven |
Michael-Thomas Foumai |
(W) |
Moody |
Premiere notations:
(W) World Premiere
(US) American Premiere
(ME) Maine Premiere
(NE) New England Premiere
(U) Uncertain Category
Date notations:
(*) Portland Youth Symphony Orchestra performance
(**) Portland Youth Wind Ensemble performance
Conductor notations:
(PSQ) PSO’s Portland String Quartet chamber concert