Earthsongs - June 2023
Under the direction of Dr. Anne J. Matlack
Harmonium Choral Society
Location: Morristown United Methodist Church
Musician: David Davis, piano

Elaine L. Bearer was born in Morristown and attended Summit High School. As a teenager, she was a pupil of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, then went on to receive a bachelor of music from The Manhattan School of Music and a master of arts in musicology from New York University. In addition to Boulanger, Bearer studied both with traditional composers, Ludmilla Ulehla, Nicholas Lopatnikov, and Virgil Thompson, and with composers of the Columbia-Princeton electronic music axis, including Mario Davidovsky. She has won several awards, including those from ASCAP, Meet the Composer, and Contemporary Music Studios; received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; and was named a distinguished alumna from the Manhattan School in 2019. She receives numerous commissions and performances worldwide, with performances scheduled this spring in Boston, Pasadena, Providence, and Norway. While in Rhode Island, she composed for Festival Ballet of Providence (Vibe of the Venue) and various groups at Brown University. Her hour-long oratorio, The Passion of Magdalene, was performed by the Providence Singers under the direction of Julian Wachner. Since moving to New Mexico with appointments at Caltech in Pasadena, many of her works have been inspired and performed by Pasadena Promusica. A neuroscientist and pathologist at both Brown University and now at UNM, Bearer holds appointments both in departments of music and in the medical schools. She explains:
To Make a Prairie was composed for the First Unitarian Church Choir in Youngstown, OH, as a birthday gift for my sister, Cynthia Bearer, a physician neonatologist, biochemist and bee-keeper. The text by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was published in 1924 in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. This musical setting twines the phrases of the text into repetitions and superimpositions not present in the published poem. Since Dickinson's works originally consisted of brief notes on scraps of paper subsequently assembled into poems, this seems appropriate usage.

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