Sonaria for Cello (1980)
"a lyrical work for unaccompanied cello" (The
Belmont Herald)
"skillfully exploits the qualities and possibilities
of the instrument" (The Jewish Advocate)
Arsis Press |
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 mp3
mp3
mp3 |
Supplication
for Piano (1994)
League ISCM, Boston,
Piano Book
"and the closing...is perfect..." (IAWM Journal)
Supplication is
an arrangement of the final prayer in Herstory
III, a monodrama on the life of Joan of Arc.
The League ISCM Piano Book consists of 33 Easy-to-Intermediate Pieces by Contemporary
Boston-Area Composers. The book is available
from the League-ISCM, Boston for $10 plus shipping costs. The piece is also available separately from the German publisher, Certosa Verlag.
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Articles (by
Vercoe, published)
"In Memoriam: Clara Lyle Boone (1927-2015), Publisher, Composer, Educator, Activist" in
the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music, Volume 21, No. 2, Fall/2015.
(Read
article)
"Where
are the Great Women Conductors?" in
the Int'l. Choral Bulletin, Summer/1997
(Read
article)
"Letter
from St. Petersburg," in
Journal of the Int'l. League of Women Composers, June/1993
(Read
article)
"Interview
with Vivian Fine," in
Journal of the Int'l. League of Women Composers, June/1992
(Read interview)
"Composing
a Life," in
Creativity at Work, National Cathedral School magazine, Winter/1992
(Read
article)
" A
Composer's View" (Review
of Historical Anthology of Music by Women), in Historical
Performance: The
Journal of Early Music America, Summer/1990 (Reprinted
in the ILWC Journal, September 1991.)
(Read
review)
"Are
the Odds Against Women Composers?" in a Monograph
of the Boston League ISCM, Fall/1987
"Occasionally...somehody really says something. Composer
Elizabeth Vercoe documents the neglect of women composers: names are
named and figures cited..." (Tommasini, Boston Globe)
(Read
article)
" Women Composers: A
Stacked Deck," in
Interlude: Journal
of the Boston Musicians' Assoc., Fall/1987
(Read
article)
"The
Lady Vanishes?" (Report on the Conference on
Women in Music at the Univ. of Michigan), Perspectives
of New Music, 1982
(Read
article)
Interview, Yale
University American Music Oral History Project (taped & transcribed),
1985.
(Yale Oral History Project )
| Interview (via recording or transcript thru Yale) |
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or contact the composer at elizvercoe@yahoo.com |
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Articles (about
Vercoe's music)
Jennifer Capaldo,
ELIZABETH VERCOE: Composing Her Story (2008) (Doctoral
Dissertation)
(Click to see summary and/or download online)
Jennifer
Capaldo
Jennifer Capaldo,
Tracking the Herstory Cycles of Elizabeth Vercoe
in
the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music,
Volume 17,
No. 2, 2011
Alicia Kosack, American Women Composers: Selected Published Works for Flute and Piano and for Unaccompanied Flute Composed between 1930 and 2008 (2010), pp. 28-30 (Doctoral Dissertation)
Lectures (by Vercoe, unpublished)
"Are
Musical Ghettos a Good Idea?," Public
Lecture given as part of a residency
holding the Acuff Chair of Excellence at
Austin Peay State University, 2003 (Read
article)
"Music
in Time of War," Public
Lecture given as part of a residency holding the Acuff Chair
of Excellence at Austin Peay State
University, 2003 (Read
article & Program)
