Inaugural Music Anthology
The LAURELS 2004-2005 commissions are assembled for publication in the LAURELS Music Anthology, Volume One and packaged with the multimedia DVD. (see Recording and Multimedia). The LAURELS extended project plan encompasses the publication of five complete LAURELS Music Anthologies, each housing new literature-based works for solo flute by newly commissioned rosters of 30 American Women Composers each and packaged with a multimedia project DVD. The anthologies emerge in two year intervals as follows: 2004-2005, Vol. I; 2007-2008, Vol. II; 2010-2011. Vol. III; 2013- 2014, Vol. IV; and 2016-2017, Vol. V. with a plan for the ongoing long term printing and distribution of each volume.
The LAURELS 2004-2005 Music Anthology puts forth a mutually supportive platform for greater visibility and dissemination of the artistic works of both its lesser and better known contemporary American women composers of benefit to generating commissioning interest in an internationally active and well supported instrument community as well as the international woodwind community at large. Reciprocally, flutists are introduced to contemporary American women composers whose work prior to the one-of-its-kind LAURELS Music Anthology they did not know.
In addition to its present day significance, the LAURELS Music Anthologies provide critically needed historical documentation and reference material valuable to women's studies, music theory, music history, music analysis, ethnomusicology, and university flute programs, as well as public and university libraries.
LAURELS Art director David Huth and graphic designer Kate Baker capture the project's creative spirit in graphic art designed for visual unification of the various project branches.
The LAURELS Music anthology is published and distributed by Resonance Press, a division of V.A.R. Ventures, Inc.
The LAURELS Music Anthology provides through its Question and Survey insert an important vehicle for measuring project impact, enlisting project response and participation, and improving future project plans.
The LAURELS Music anthologies and multimedia DVDs are part of a correlative body of work supporting the LAURELS objectives to:
- Support the commissioning, promotion, and international dissemination of flute literature by American Women Composers.
- To generate greater interest in and awareness of their work.
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