JimCohn1109Four works by New York City-based composer James Cohn will be presented by the Belgian-based Claribel Clarinet Choir on Friday, February 12 and Saturday, February 13 at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention, to be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.

On February 12, Claribel will present Mr. Cohn’s Texas Suite commissioned by their conductor, Maestro Guido Six, and God Bless America, transcribed for the Choir by Mr. Cohn. This concert will celebrate the composer’s 82nd birthday.

The February 13 concert will feature Caprice, again commissioned by Maestro Six in 1999 for the International Clarinet Convention in Ostend, Belgium, and an arrangement of Arkansas Reel, a quodlibet of Arkansas Traveler and the Blue Mountain Boys Reel.

For more information about these performances and the TMEA Convention, call 512-452-0710 or visit them at http://www.tmea.org/Convention/index.html.

You can find more of James Cohn’s music on XLNT at http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Label?&label_id=1257. Visit him at http://www.jamesarts.com/CohnBio0202.htm.

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