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American composer and educator
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- United States of America
- composer, music teacher, university teacher
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2018-02-14 10:17:06
A Triptych: Irrational Theatre in three one-act comic operas
A Triptych, John Whittaker, Peter Reynolds, Offenbach; Irrational Theatre; The King's Head Reviewed by Anthony Evans on Feb 11 2018 Star rating: 3.0Three contrasting one-act operas in intimate surroundsIt is always a pleasure to see little known works, but you never know quite what you’re going to get. Irrational Theatre came to the King’s Head yesterday evening (11 February 2018) with A Triptych, an interesting mix of three handers directed by Paula Chitty: John Whittaker’s The Proposal, Peter Reynolds’ Sounds of Time and Jacques Offenbach’s Le 66 with varying results. The singers Laurence Panter (tenor), Lucy Elston (soprano) and Andrew Sparling (baritone), sharing the roles, were all uniformly good, although poor Andrew Sparling did seem to have an aversion to props. There was some fine, not to say nimble, support from Julian Trevelyan, John Whittaker (pianists) and Abi […]
2015-12-03 15:00:08
[…] Anton Webern In 1883 Anton Webern was born in Vienna, Austria. Along with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg and his colleague Alban Berg, Webern comprised the core among those within and more peripheral to the circle of the Second Viennese School, including Ernst Krenek and Theodor W. Adorno. As an exponent of atonality andtwelve-tone technique, Webern exerted influence on contemporaries Luigi Dallapiccola, Křenek, and even Schoenberg himself. As tutor Webern guided and variously influenced Arnold Elston, Fré Focke, Philipp Herschkowitz, René Leibowitz, Humphrey Searle, Leopold Spinner, and Stefan Wolpe. Webern’s music was the most radical of its milieu in its rigorous and resolute apprehension of twelve-tone technique. His innovations in schematic organization of pitch, rhythm, register, timbre, dynamics, articulation, and melodic contour; his eagerness to redefine imitative contrapuntal techniques such as canon and fugue; and his inclination toward athematicism, abstraction, concision, and lyricism all greatly informed and oriented post-war European, […]
2012-05-16 15:01:12
My childhood “Fur Elise,” past teachers, yearbook entries, and present mentoring (Video)
I named one of my daughters, “Elise,” in honor of Beethoven’s famous composition. That’s how much I adored the music. A companion piece since childhood, I managed to squeak through the notes at age 8 when enrolled at a quaint music school off Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx. Private lessons followed my two years of Music Appreciation classes. At a parent/teacher conference my mother had been told that I excelled at playing the xylophone, marimba, triangle, psaltery and recorder, so I had a good enough ear to begin violin lessons. But as a visually impressionable child, I really wanted to cradle a saxophone with its appealing shimmer and decorative display of key buttons. As expected, my request was rejected by Mrs. Elston, an officious Director, who offered me piano lessons as a compromise. My first mentor, Mrs. Vinagradov, was a soft-spoken woman with a Russian accent. To reach her studio, I […]
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