Discography on Drimala Records
2002 Blackwater
Bridge DR 02-347-02
Complete Discography
2000
Devil In the Belfry CRI 865
1997
Southern Ephemera Music & Arts 931
1994
Dish CRI 654
1993
Doggone Cat Act Mode 30
1992
Blue Harp Studies Nos, 1 & 2 Tellus 26
1991
Eurydice Meets Hermes Word of Mouth
1987
The Sea and the Honeycomb Opus One
1983
Doggone Cat Act Opus One
1975
Concerto for Active Frogs Say Day-Bew |
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Anne LeBaron, a composer, harpist, and educator at the
forefront of innovation, is recognized for her work in the electronic, instrumental, and
performance realms. Her compositions embrace an extraordinary array of subjects, ranging
from contemporary adaptations of Greek and South American myths, to probes into extinction
(both physical and cultural), to unheralded women in history. An accomplished harpist and improvisor, LeBaron is
renowned for her pioneering methods of developing extended techniques and electronic
enhancements for the harp. Leading innovators of jazz and other forms of improvised music,
including Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton and Derek Bailey, have engaged her in
performance and recording collaborations.
As a Fulbright Scholar, LeBaron studied with
György Ligeti, later completing her doctorate in composition at Columbia University. Her
works have been written for virtually every contemporary genre and performed and broadcast
throughout the U.S. and elsewhere, with performances in Stuttgart, London, Prague,
Talloires, Hong Kong, Sydney, Berlin, Havana, and Kyoto. Her orchestral works have been
conducted by Leonard Slatkin, Jorge Mester, and William McLaughlin. She currently teaches
composition and related subjects at the California Institute of the Arts.
Pope Joan (2000), a dance opera jointly commissioned by the Pittsburgh New Music
Ensemble and Dance Alloy, was her latest dramatic musical work. Another recent large-scale
work, Traces of Mississippi, is featured as part of a PBS documentary, currently
airing. Commissioned by the Continental Harmony project of the American Composers Forum,
it was written for the Tougaloo Chamber College Choir, joined by an orchestra, a gospel
singer, rap artists, poet/narrators, and children's choir. LeBaron conducted the premiere
in November, 2000. She is presently writing a one-act absurdist opera with the playwright
Edward DeGrazia, The Vacuum Cleaner.
The range of LeBaron's musical language can be heard on several recordings devoted to her
music. "The Musical Railism of Anne LeBaron," a Tellus/Mode co-production,
includes the first work written for the Lyon & Healy Electric Harp, as well as
selections from her blues opera collaboration with Thulani Davis, The E. & O. Line.
"Rana, Ritual, and Revelations," with the New Music Consort and the Theater
Chamber Players of Kennedy Center, highlights works from the 1980's. This recording
received four stars from Down Beat magazine. "Sacred Theory of the Earth,"
released on CRI in 2001, features instrumental works from the 1990's performed by the
Atlanta Chamber Players. |
