Contemporary Composers
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Nationality
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American
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Born in Massachusetts in 1947
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received his BA and MA from Harvard - studied with Roger Sessions
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taught and conducted at the San Francisco Conservatory
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Influences
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Stravinsky
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Honegger
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Schoenberg
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big-band swing
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cartoon soundtrack music
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Mediums
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Orchestral
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Chamber
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Opera
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electronic
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film
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Style
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minimalist
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the rhythmic energy of minimalism
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harmonies and orchestra colors of Romanticism
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has touched on a wide range of 20th century idioms from popular to serious
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big band swing
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cartoon soundtrack music
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expressionism (Schoenberg)
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Pieces
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Harmonium
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Harmonielehre
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Shaker Loops
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Short Ride in a Fast Machine
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Nixon in China - opera
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Death of Klinghoffer - opera
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I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky - opera / "song play"
Anderson, Laurie (1947
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Nationality
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American
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born in Chicago - 1947
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Influences
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pop
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jazz
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minimalism
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folk
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has a BA in art history and MFA in sculpture from Columbia
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Mediums
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poet / writer
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visual artist
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performance artist
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music
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electronics
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projections
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costumes
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self-built musical instruments
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film
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CD-ROM
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Style
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Pieces
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United States
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Home of the Brave
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The Nerve Bible
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CD-ROM - Puppet Motel
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Nationality
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Influences
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one of the foremost contributors to the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music
Centre
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Mediums
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instrumental groupings
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vocal and instrumental groupings
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electronic
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jazz ensemble
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Style
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everything in his music serves a constructive function
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total serialism
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new ways of organizing time
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Pieces
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Vision and Prayer
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Philomel
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Sounds and Words
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Phonemena
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Composition for Synthesizer
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Ensembles for Synthesizer
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All Set
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Partitions
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Two Sonnets
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Nationality
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Influences
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early works reflect
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Strauss (bitonality) - in his middle period
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Mediums
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orchestral
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chamber
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vocal
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choral
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Style
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stuck to no one style
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distinguished himself as a melodist
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complex harmonies
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sometimes extremely dissonant
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experimental orchestration
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Pieces
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Serenade - string quartet then later for full string orchestra
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Overture to the School for Scandal
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Music for a Scene from Shelley
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Adagio for Strings
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Reincarnations - choral
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Vanessa - opera
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A Hand of Bridge - opera
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Antony and Cleopatra - opera
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Nationality
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Mediums
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electronic
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live performance with electronic / tape
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Style
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avant-garde
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combined live performance with electronic tape
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music combined with gesture and dramatic action
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Pieces
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Circles - voice, harp and percussion
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designed for visual and spatial realization
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Passagio - opera
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Visages - electronic and vocal sounds
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Recital I (for Cathy, 1962)
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a tour de force catalogue of vocal and dramatic styles
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Cathy was his wife
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied with Piston at Harvard
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studied orchestration with Randall
Thompson
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(directed and performed in Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock")
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studied conducting with Koussevitzky
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first American to conduct an opera at La Scala
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a leading advocate of American composers, especially Copland
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Mediums
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orchestral
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music theatre
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chamber
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piano
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choral
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opera
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Style
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incorporated many 20th century techniques
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rhythmic vitality
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harmonic freedom
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included jazz influences
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Pieces
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Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah"
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Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
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Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish"
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Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers
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Chichester Psalms - chorus, boy soprano, orchestra
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Trouble in Tahiti - one-act opera
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A Quiet Place - opera sequel to "Tahiti" in three acts
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Wrote music for:
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On the Town
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Wonderful Town
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Candide
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West Side Story
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Literary writings
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The Joy of Music
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The Infinite Variety of Music
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Findings
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The Unanswered Question
Bond, Victoria
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied with Roger Sessions at Julliard
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first woman to earn a doctorate in orchestral conducting from Julliard
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Mediums
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orchestral
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opera
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chamber
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ballet
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Pieces
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The Frog Prince
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What's the Point of Counterpoint?
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Ringing - commissioned by the Houston Symphony
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Dreams of Flying - string quartet
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Urban Bird - concerto for alto sax and orchestra
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Thinking Like a Mountain
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Travels - opera based on Gulliver's Travels
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied with Messiaen
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Schoenberg
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Stockhausen
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taught at Darmstadt with Stockhausen
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director of IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/ Musique)
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Mediums
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vocal
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choral
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piano
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orchestral
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vocal/instrumental groupings
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Style
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inherited Messiaen's concern for rhythm, non-developing forms and extra-European
music
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highly charged
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working toward total serialization of rhythm, loudness, and tone color
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his early music was violent
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Pieces
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La Visage nuptial - cantata
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Structures - for two pianos
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Le marteau sans maitre - contralto, alto flute, viola, guitar, and percussion
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Rituel - orchestra
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Répons - orchestra and digital equipment
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Nationality
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Influences
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Mediums
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opera
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choral
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voice
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orchestral
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chamber
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Style
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great invention, technical mastery, and charm
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ever-widening style, even including 12-tone elements (as in "Turn...")
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use of heterophony stemming from both oriental music and that of Mahler
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free use of harmony
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Pieces
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Paul Bunyan - opera
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Rejoice in the Lamb - choral
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Peter Grimes - opera
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The Rape of Lucretia - opera
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Albert Herring - opera
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The Beggar's Opera
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The Little Sweep - opera
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St. Nicolas - cantata
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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
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Spring Symphony - with soloists and chorus
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Billy Budd - opera
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The Turn of the Screw - opera
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - opera
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Gloriana - opera
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Death in Venice - opera
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War Requiem
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Ceremony of Carols
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied with Cowell
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studied with Schoenberg
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studied Zen and other Eastern philosophies
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influenced the early minimalists - Glass, Riley,
Reich
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very influential in the realm of philosophical concepts
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Mediums
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piano
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electronic
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percussion
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Style
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early works were rigorously atonal
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later his music was concerned with filling units of time with ostinatos
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indeterminacy
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minimalist concepts
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wrote pieces for natural objects (plants, shells, etc.)
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Pieces
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First Construction (In Metal)
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Imaginary Landscapes No. 1 - used variable speed turntables
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Three Dances - for two prepared pianos
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Music of Changes - for piano (used coin tosses to determine events)
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Imaginary Landscapes No. 4 - for 12 radios
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4'33"
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Cartridge Music - for small sounds amplified in live performance
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Significance
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invented the prepared piano
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initiated indeterminacy
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made profound philosophical contributions to contemporary musical thought
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied with Piston and Holst at Harvard
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and Boulanger in Paris
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Carter mentions his early contact with Ives and Varèse
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Mediums
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ballet
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symphony
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piano
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string quartet
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vocal
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Style
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complex, non-serial approach
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continuous mutation
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deals with large-scale temporal problems ("metric modulation")
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complicated melodic development
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explores combinations of different speeds and timbral units
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Pieces
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Pocahontas - ballet (1939)
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Eight Etudes and a Fantasy for Woodwind Quartet (1950)
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concentrates on specific aspects of woodwind sound and technique (spacing,
flutter-tonguing, runs)
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the Fantasy contrapuntally combines aspects of the Etudes
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Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano (1961)
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a triptych of chamber cantatas
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A Mirror on Which to Dwell - for soprano (1975)
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Syringa - for mezzo soprano (1978)
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In Sleep, In Thunder - for tenor (1981)
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Significance
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well known for his tightly-wrought compositions
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as well as for his articulate comments and criticisms regarding contemporary
music
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied with Boulanger
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American jazz and pop music
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Stravinsky
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Mediums
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orchestral
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ballet
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piano
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a few vocal pieces
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opera
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film scores
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Style
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a product of Paris and the U.S.
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American freshness, energy and vitality
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Parisian elegance of expression
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incorporated folk influences
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some of his later works incorporate serialism
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Pieces
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Music for the Theater - symphonic jazz
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Short Symphony - like Stravinsky
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The Tender Land - opera
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Billy the Kid - ballet
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Rodeo - ballet
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Our Town - film score
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The Red Pony - film score
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El Salon México - orchestral
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Danzon Cubano - clarinet concerto for Benny Goodman
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Fanfare for the Common Man
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Lincoln Portrait - for speaker and orchestra
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Old American Songs - vocal
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Appalachian Spring
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Nationality
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Influences
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in 1991 was named to the faculty of Julliard
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Mediums
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orchestral
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opera
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chamber
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film
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Pieces
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A Dylan Thomas Trilogy - "a memory play in the form of an oratorio"
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Symphony No. 1 - written in response to the AIDS crisis
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Ghosts of Versailles - opera (commissioned by the Met)
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Altered States - film score
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Fantasia on an Ostinato
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Pied Piper Fantasy
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Chiaroscura - for two pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart
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Creations - for narrator and chamber orchestra
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Nationality
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Influences
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grew up in California surrounded by a wide variety of Oriental musical
traditions
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Father's Irish folk heritage
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Mother's midwestern folk tunes
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began studying with Charles Seeger at Univ. of California at the age of
16
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further studies focused on world music cultures
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taught Cage, Lou Harrison, and Copland
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held positions at Peabody Conservatory and Columbia
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Style
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varied sound materials
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experimental compositional procedures
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rich color from non-European and folk influences
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popularized the "tone cluster"
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experimented with the "string piano" (plucking, strumming, etc. the strings
inside the piano)
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stretched and redefined Western notions of melody and rhythm by way of
African and East Indian music
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used exotic instruments and percussion (ex: gamelan)
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developed a type of indeterminacy called "elastic form" (performers determine
the order of movements)
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Pieces
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Advertisement - displays the use of tone clusters
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Tiger - tone clusters used
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The Aeolian Harp - utilized "string piano"
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The Banshee - "string piano"
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Mosaic Quartet - used "elastic form"
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied at Universities in the U.S. and Berlin
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on faculty at the Univ. of Pennsylvania
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Mediums
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unique combinations of instruments, including voice
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piano
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Style
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tendency to relate traditional formalities with very extreme demands on
technical resources
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interest in unique sound qualities
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exceptional combinations of electronic instruments with traditional instruments
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amplified instruments
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vocalists asked to sing microtones, shriek, hiss, whisper, and produce
other non-traditional vocal sounds
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Pieces
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Night of the Four Moons - alto flute, banjo, electric cello, percussion
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Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death - baritone, electric guitar, electric
double bass, electric piano and percussion
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Lux Aeterna for Five Masked Players - soprano, bass flute, sitar, and two
percussion players
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Zeitgeist - two amplified pianos
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Idyl for the Misbegotten - amplified flute and three percussionists
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Ancient Voices of Children - mezzo-soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin,
harp, electric piano and percussion
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Nationality
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Influences
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Associate Conductor/Composer of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London
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Composer/Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester
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Composer Laureate of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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Mediums
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orchestral
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opera
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music theatre
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ballet
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chamber
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vocal
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choral
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Pieces
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Taverner - opera
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Resurrection - opera
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The Lighthouse - opera
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The Doctor of Myddfai - opera
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Salome - ballet
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Caroline Mathilde - ballet
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Eight Songs for a Mad King - music theatre
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Miss Donnithorne's Maggot - music theatre
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An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise - orchestral
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Mavis in Las Vegas - orchestral
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Job - oratorio
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Nationality
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Chinese
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born in 1957 in Hunan, China
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Influences
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worked as an arranger for the Peking Opera
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studied at the Central Conservatory in Beijing for 8 years
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received a fellowship to study at Columbia where he received his doctorate
in composition
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Mediums
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Style
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vivid drama
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expressive harmonies
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imaginative colors
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experimental projects
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music for ceramics
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water, paper, stones (Ghost Opera)
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Pieces
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Ghost Opera
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Yi2 - guitar concerto
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Red Forecast (Orchestral Theatre III)
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Symphony 1997 (Heaven Earth Mankind)
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Marco Polo - opera
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Death and Fire
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Fallen - film soundtrack
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Peony Pavilion - theatre piece
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On Taoism - orchestral
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Nationality
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Influences
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met and developed a relationship with John Cage
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friends with Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock
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Style
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never worked with a system anyone could identify
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worked from moment to moment, from sound to sound
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experimented with graph notation
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in the 1970's his works became quite lengthy
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his Second String Quartet could last up to five and one half hours
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worked with indeterminacy for a while (see "Durations" below)
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his later works demonstrated precise notation with control over all aspects
of the music
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Pieces
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Projection 2 - graph notation
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Atlantis - orchestral; graph notation
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Out of Last Pieces - orchestral; graph notation
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Durations - instrumental work; exact pitch notation, performers choose
durations
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In Search of an Orchestration - last graphically notated work
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Nationality
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Influences
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Ives
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Webern
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Copland
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William Schuman
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Partch
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Cowell
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Virgil Thomson
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studied at Julliard
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studied with Persichetti, Milhaud, Boulanger
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Ravi Shankar and other Eastern techniques
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Style
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classified as "minimalist" but he hates the term
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his music is based on the extended repetition of brief melodic fragments
woven in and out of an aural tapestry
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the music transforms - goes through a slow metamorphosis as the fragments
change or lengthen over time
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his style is busy, tonal, aggressively rhythmic
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Pieces
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Music in 12 Parts
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Einstein on the Beach - opera with Robert Wilson
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Satyagraha - opera
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Akhnaten - opera
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The Fall of the House of Usher - opera
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Through the Eye of the Raven - opera with Robert Wilson; commissioned by
the Met
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Monsters of Grace - "digital" 3D opera with Robert Wilson
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Koyaanisqatsi - film
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Mishima - film
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In the Upper Room - for dance
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Hydrogen Jukebox
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Nationality
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American
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born in Philadelphia in 1960
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Influences
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studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with John
Adams
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the Manhattan School of Music
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and at the Yale School of Music
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worked with Charles Wuorinen
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Style
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uses a diversity of styles, ideas, and impressions to create music of expressive
lyricism and engaging wit
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emotional directness
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multilayered response to poetic imagery
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fresh, bright, vocal and instrumental textures
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Pieces
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String Quartet No. 2 - won a Pulitzer Prize
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Still Movement with Hymn - piano quartet
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Colored Field - english horn concerto
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New Era Dance - orchestral
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Goblin Market - narrator and ensemble
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Dream of the Morning Sky - orchestral
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Nationality
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born in Vienna
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spent most of his creative life in the U.S.
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Mediums
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11 operas
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3 ballets
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incidental music for 7 plays
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large number of choral works
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5 symphonies
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4 piano concertos
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6 piano sonatas
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8 string quartets
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author of several books, including "Music Here and Now"
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Style
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utilized almost all the stylistic experiments of the early 20th century
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jazz idioms
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modified 12-tone system
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Pieces
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Aulokithara - for oboe, harp, and tape
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Spätlese - song cycle (1973)
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They Knew What They Wanted - for narrator, oboe, piano, and percussion
(1977)
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Nationality
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born in Hungary but became a naturalized citizen of Austria
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Influences
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associated with the Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne
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one of the leaders of the International Courses for New Music in Darmstadt
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Mediums
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has exploited all musical media
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Style
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early works are mostly simple, folk-derived
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later works are characterized by an emphasis on color and masses of sound
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employs all variety of noisemakers as well as electronic means
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Pieces
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Volumina - for organ
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Requiem
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Lux Aeterna - for 16 solo voices
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Poeme symphonique - for 100 metronomes all operating at different speeds
(a critical comment on contemporary music)
Maw, Nicholas (1935
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London
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studied with Boulanger
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held positions at
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Trinity College Cambridge
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Exeter University
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Yale University
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currently Professor of Composition at Milton Avery Graduate School of the
Arts, Bard College, New York
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Mediums
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chamber
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vocal
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choral
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opera
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solo instrumental
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Pieces
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One Man Show - chamber opera
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The Rising of the Moon - opera
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Scenes and Arias - orchestral; commissioned by the BBC
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Odyessy - orchestral
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Spring Music - orchestral
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The World in the Evening - orchestral
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Violin Concerto
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Sophie's Choice - an opera (to be premiered in 1999) co-commissioned by
the BBC and the Royal Opera
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Nationality
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French
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studied and taught at the Paris Conservatory
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Influences
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Mediums
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organ (he was an organist)
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piano / piano concerto
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orchestral
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song
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choral
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opera
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Style
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used his own modal system
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strong flavoring of tritones, diminished 7ths and augmented triads
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rhythmic irregularity
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rapid changing of intense color
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most of his work was explicitly religious
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use of arithmetical systems
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some use of serialism (influenced by his student Boulez)
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Pieces
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8 Preludes for Piano (1929)
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L'ascension - orchestral (1933)
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Poèmes pour Mi - song cycle (1936)
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Quartet for the End of Time - clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1941)
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written while in prison camp
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titles of the 8 movements refer to the Apocalypse
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the last movement suggesting the infinity of perfect peace
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a few works based on adaptations of birdsongs
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La Transfiguration - choral / orchestral (1969)
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Saint François d'Assise - opera (1983)
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Significance
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his most extensive contributions are in the realm of rhythm
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isorhythmic procedures
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emphasis on prime numbers
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reworkings of ancient Greek patterns
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augmented, diminished and non-retrogradable rhythms
Oliveros, Pauline (1932
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Nationality
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American
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born in Houston, Texas in 1932
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Influences
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studied composition at the Univ. of Houston
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co-founded "Sonics" which became the San Francisco Tape Music Center
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she became the Director when it was transferred to Mills College in 1966
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in 1967 she was appointed to the Music Department at the Univ. of California
at San Diego
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she taught composition and experimental studies for 14 years
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resigned her professorship to resume her career as a freelance composer/performer
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founded her own non-profit arts organization
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started the Deep Listening Band
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Mediums
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Style
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Pieces
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Variations for Sextet
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Epigraphs in the Time of Aids
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Njinga the Queen King - theatre piece
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Nationality
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Influences
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Style
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worked with microtonal systems
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rejected Western music systems
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developed a musical esthetic derived from an eclectic range of influences,
including
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Yaqui Indians
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Chinese lullabies
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Hebrew chants for the dead
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Christian hymns
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Congo puberty rites
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lumber yards
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junk shops
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he produced a 43-note scale to produce pure, untempered consonances
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a monophonic style
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the physical movement and actions were as important as the sounds
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all performers are expected to perform from memory
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Pieces
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a book - "Genesis of a Music"
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Li Po Songs
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Barstow - uses words collected from highway railings
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The Letter - from a letter written by a hobo friend (Partch lived as a
hobo for six years)
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San Francisco - used the cries of newsboys
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Oedipus - dramatic work
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Delusion of the Fury - based on a Japanese Noh play
Radigue, Elaine
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied electroacoustic music under Pierre Shaeffer
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has had residencies at
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NY Univ. School of the Arts
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Univ. of Iowa
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California Institute of the Arts
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in 1975 she became a disciple of Tibetan Buddhism
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Mediums
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Pieces
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7th Birth
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Phi 847
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Adnos
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Songs of Milarepa - based on the life of an 11th-century Tibetan master
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied philosophy at Cornell
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studied with Persichetti at Julliard
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then with Luciano Berio
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and Darius Milhaud at Mills College
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early works were created in the early 60's at the San Francisco Tape Music
Center (see Pauline Oliveros)
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Style
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minimalist
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strong, steady pulse
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diatonic and tonal harmonies
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short, repeating melodic figures
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uses a "phasing" technique (two identical lines performed "out of phase")
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Pieces
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It's Gonna Rain - 1965; example of phasing technique
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Come Out - 1966; phasing
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Piano Phase
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Violin Phase
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Music for 18 Musicians
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Octet
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Different Trains - string quartet and tape
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City Life
Riley, Terry (1935
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Nationality
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Influences
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influenced Glass, Reich, Adams
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as well as rock groups like The Who
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set the stage for the later New Age movement
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studied with the Indian vocal master Pandit Pran Nath
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taught North Indian Raga and music composition at Mills College
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long association with Kronos Quartet
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Style
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minimalist
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pioneered the use of tape delay in live performance
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multi-layered, polymetric, brightly orchestrated, eastern-flavored improvisation
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Pieces
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In C - 1964; started the minimalist movement
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A Rainbow in the Curved Air
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Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band
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The Saint Adolf Ring - theatre piece
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Salome Dances for Peace - a five-quartet cycle
Spiegel, Laurie
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied classical guitar and composition privately in London
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studied Baroque and Renaissance lute at Julliard
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and composition with Persichetti
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founded the NY Univ. Computer Music Studio
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has written several computer music programs
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Mediums
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electronic
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digital/computer controlled and produced work
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Style
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makes her most intuitive-sounding melodic music from mathematical algorithms
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and her most complex computerized textures by ear
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form and emotion are hard to separate
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works in an accessible, minimalist vein
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Pieces
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The Expanding Universe - recording of early works
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Unseen Worlds - newer recording
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Nationality
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Influences
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Mediums
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Style
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he is a conceptual composer
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every composition is
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a complete rethinking of the term "music"
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incorporating European and non-European tradition,
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the latest music technology,
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and a wide range of musical cultures
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Pieces
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Kontakte
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Klavierstücke - piano pieces
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Gesang der Jinglinge
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Zyklus - solo percussion; may be read upside down or backwards, or
not, however the performer chooses
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Mantra - written for two pianos, the sounds are modulated in real time
by ring modulators
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began in 1977 writing "Light," a massive series of seven operas,
each named after a day of the week; the series is expected to be
completed by the year 2005
Tavener, John
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Nationality
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Influences
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a member of the Russian Orthodox Church
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Pieces
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The Whale - dramatic cantata
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Orthodox Vigil Service
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Akathist of Thanksgiving
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The Protecting Veil
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Resurrection - choral / orchestral
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Mary of Egypt - opera
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Svyati
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Repentant Thief
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Nationality
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American
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born in KC, Missouri in 1896
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Influences
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studied at Harvard
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studied with Boulanger
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influenced by Satie's ideals of clarity, simplicity, irony, and humor
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chief music critic for the NY Herald Tribune
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Mediums
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Style
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sharp wit and overt playfulness
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rooted in American speech rhythms and hymnbook harmony
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Pieces
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Four Saints in Three Acts - opera
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The Mother of Us All - opera
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The Plow That Broke the Plains - film score
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The River - film score
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Louisiana Story - film score
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Nationality
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Style
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texted music show a deep interest in social issues
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emphasis on vigorous rhythms and luminous textures
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harmonies that go beyond the late 19th and early 20th century
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did not embrace serialism
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Pieces
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A Child of Our Time - oratorio based on Negro spirituals; popular in U.S.
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The Midsummer Marriage - opera
Torke, Michael (1961
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Nationality
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American
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born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Influences
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studied at Eastman
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studied at Yale
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Style
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practically defined post-minimalism
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utilizes the repetitive structures of a previous generations to incorporate
musical techniques from both the classical tradition and the contemporary
pop world
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style has developed toward larger, more expansive forms, allowing for greater
textural variation and longer, sweeping themes
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his music has also drawn the attention of many choreographers
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Pieces
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Javelin - orchestral; commissioned by the Olympic Committee in Atlanta
for the Atlanta Symphony's 50th Anniv.
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December - for string orchestra
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Nylon - for guitar and orchestra
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July - for sax quartet
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Four Proverbs - for soprano and ensemble
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Book of Proverbs - for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra
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King of Hearts - opera
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Ecstatic Orange
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The Yellow Pages
Ung, Chinary (1942
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Nationality
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Influences
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studied at the Cambodian Music Conservatory
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came to the U.S. in 1964 to study
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received a Bachelor's and Master's in clarinet and conducting
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from Manhattan School of Music
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received his doctorate in composition from Columbia
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Mediums
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Pieces
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Inner Voices - tone poem; commissioned by the Philadelphia orchestra; won
the Grawemeyer Award ($150,000)
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Spiral I - trio for piano, cello, percussion
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Grand Spiral: Desert Flowers in Bloom - orchestral
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Antiphonal Spirals - orchestral
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Nationality
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French
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moved to U.S. in 1915
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Mediums
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orchestral
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small ensemble
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percussion
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electronic / tape (theremin / ondes martenot)
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Style
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fiercely dissonant chords
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rhythmically complex polyphonies for percussion and/or winds
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forms in continuous evolution with no large-scale recurrence
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Pieces
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Hyperprism (1923)
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Ionisation (1931) for percussion orchestra
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Poeme Electronique (1958)
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Significance
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Founded the International Composers' Guild
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one of the first in the electronic medium
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wrote pieces almost entirely without pitched sounds
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Nationality
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German
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became an American citizen in 1943
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Influences
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studied with Humperdinck
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influenced by Stravinsky
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Mediums
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choral
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opera
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music theatre
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Style
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in 1935 he moved to the U.S. and turned completely to writing for the Broadway
stage
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separating himself from European art-music
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subordinating aesthetic criteria in favor of pragmatic and populist ones
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Pieces
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Recordare - choral
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Der neue Orpheus - cantata; demonstrates a rediscovery of tonality and
jazz
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Royal Palace - one-act stage piece
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The Threepenny Opera - collaborated with playwright Brecht
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The Seven Deadly Sins - a sung ballet; again with Brecht
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Nationality
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French with Greek parentage and Romanian birth
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Influences
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studied engineering
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influenced by Messiaen
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Style
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mathematical and computer means of handling large numbers of events
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demonstrated an interest in
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electronic music
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Greek Drama
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instrumental virtuosity
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struck back against modernist complexity with ostinatos and modes suggesting
folk music
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Pieces
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Metastasis - based on the design for the surfaces of the Philips pavilion
to be built for the Brussels Exposition of 1958
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ST/10
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Atrées
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Analogiques
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Duel - based on game theory
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Stratégie - based on game theory
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Bohor - electronic
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Herma - for piano; virtuosic writing