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Achivement New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in Music Composition Obie Award for Sustained Achievement 1983 Villager Outstanding Composition Award for TURTLE DREAMS Video Culture / Canada Festival in Toronto, Grand Prize Performance Video, for Turtle Dreams (WALTZ) International Public Television conference in Belgium, Paris video selected for screening Corporation for Public Broadcasting. First Place for Performance Programming to KTCA-TV Minneapolis, for PARIS 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship Creative Artists Program Service Award (CAPS) ASCAP Award for Musical Composition 1981 German Critics Prize for Best Record of the Year; Dolmen Music Cine Golden Eagle for Ellis Island Atlanta Film Festival Special Jury

Prize for Ellis Island ASCAP Award for Musical Composition 1980 New York Dance Film Festival Merit Award for 16 MM Earrings ASCAP Award for Musical Composition Villager Outstanding Production for RECENT RUINS 1977 Creative Artists Program Service Award (CAPS) ASCAP Awdrd for Musical Composition 1976 Obie Award for Outstanding Production for Quarry 1975 Venice Biennale First Prize for Education of the Girlchild 1974 Brandeis Creative Arts Award 1972 Guggenheim Fellowship 1971 Obie Award for Outstanding Production for Vessel. □

Operas and Musical Theater Works Major Performances The Ringing Place 1987 (12 Performers) Work-in-Progress presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, November 1987. Acts from Under and Above 1986 (3 Performers) Premiere at La Mama Experimental Theater Club, NYC; Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; West Kortright Center, NY. The Games 1983 (16 Performers) In collaboration with Ping Chong, Commissioned by and premiered at

the Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz, West Berlin; American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, October 1984; University of California, Berkeley; Royce Hall, Los Angeles Turtle Dreams 1983 (7 Performers) Villager Award for Outstanding Composition for the Year 1983. Plexus, NYC; Dance Umbrella, London; Theater Festival of the Americas, Montreal; La Mama ETC, NYC. Specimen Days: A Civil War Opera 1981 (15 Performers) Premiere at The Public Theater, NYC; Festival d’Automne, Paris; Theatre National, Strasbourg; Teatro Due, Parma. Music Concert With Film 1981 (8 Performers) Premiere at The Space at City Center. NYC; Washington Hall Performance Gallery, Seattle; Western Washington University; Portland Center of the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon; San Francisco Symphony at