Southeastern Composers League
- Southeastern Composers League
The “Southeastern Composers’ League" (SCL) is an organization designed to support the composition and performance of contemporary art music by composers living in the southeastern portion of the United States. The geographic area covered by the SCL includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. [ [http://www.radford.edu/~scl-web/about.html Southeastern Composers League ] ] The major activity of the League is the sponsorship of an annual “Forum” in the southeastern United States where typically three to five different concerts are presented over a period of several days and sometimes including special guest composers from outside the region. [http://www.runet.edu/~scl-web/forum/concerts.pdf]
History
The League traces it existence to the Alabama Composers' League, founded in 1950 by Guerney Kennedy and Paul Newell. [ [http://www.radford.edu/~scl-web/history.html Southeastern Composers League ] ] It celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2001. The organization remained headquarted at the University of Alabama until 1980, when a new structure and revised constitution was adopted. [ [http://www.radford.edu/~scl-web/constitution.html Southeastern Composers League ] ] Guest composers who have been invited to the SCL Forum include Roy Harris, William Bergsma, Wayne Barlow, Ross Lee Finney, Peter Mennin, Bernard Wagenaar, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Vincent Persichetti, Robert Palmer, Burrill Phillips, Wallingford Riegger, Ernst Krenek, Henry Cowell, Milton Babbitt, Alvin Etler, Iain Hamilton, Robert Ward, Roque Cordero, Carlos Chavez and Harrison Birtwistle. ]Officers and Membership
The current officers of the organization are Gregory Carroll, President; Joe Alexander, Vice President; Ken Davies, Secretary; Leonard Ball, Treasurer. Other prominent members of the organization include Kenneth Jacobs, Roger Vogel, past-president Donna Kelly Eastman, Richard Montalto, Bruce Mahin, and Rodney Waschka II. [ [http://www.runet.edu/~scl-web/members/directory.html Southeastern Composers League ] ]
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