Posted on Apr 1, 2005

Hilary Tann, professor of music, has premiered a piano piece, “Light from The Cliffs,” at the University at Albany. The Empire State Youth Orchestra performed her composition, “From the Feather to the Mountain,” on March 20. The piece, commissioned by ESYO for their 25th anniversary, refers in the title to a statement by artist and former Union colleague Arnie Bittleman (“I found a feather while walking down a road. The feather, if you look closely, has a landscape, a cloudscape in it.”) In connection with the concert, WAMC's Paul Elisha interviewed Tann for the show “Roundtable.” The Trinity Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh recently hosted the premiere of Tann's organ piece, “Pinnae Ventorum.”