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List Of Compositions By William Bolcom
This is a list of compositions by American composer William Bolcom. By genre Operas * ''McTeague'' (1991–92) * '' A View from the Bridge'' (1997–98) * '' A Wedding'' (2003) * '' Dinner at Eight'' (2016) Symphonies * Symphony No. 1 (1957) * Symphony No. 2 ''Oracles'' (1964) * Symphony No. 3 ''Symphony for Chamber Orchestra'' (1979) * Symphony No. 4 (1986) * Symphony No. 5 (1989) * Symphony No. 6 (1996–1997) * Symphony No. 7 (2002) * Symphony No. 8 (2005) * Symphony No. 9 (2012) * Symphony No. 1 for band (2008) Concertos * Piano Concerto (1976) * Violin Concerto in D (1983) * Fantasia Concertante (1984) * Clarinet Concerto (1988) * Flute Concerto ''Lyric Concerto'' (1992–1993) * Concerto for Two Pianos Left Hand ''Gaea'' (1996) * Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra (2000) * Romanza (2009) * Trombone Concerto (2016) * Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Band (2016) * 2nd Piano Concerto (2019) Piano * Miscellaneous rags (24) * Three Ghost Rags (1970) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bolcom
William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. He taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973 until 2008. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris. Early life and education Bolcom was born in Seattle, Washington. At age 11, he entered the University of Washington to study composition privately with George Frederick McKay and John Verrall and piano with Madame Berthe Poncy Jacobson. "He later studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College while working on his Master of Arts degree, with Leland Smith at Stanford University while working on his D.M.A., and with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire, where he received the 2ème Prix de Composition". Career Bolcom won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1988 for '' 12 New Etudes for Piano''. In the fall of 1994, he was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McTeague (opera)
''McTeague'' is an American opera composed by William Bolcom with a libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman. The opera is based on a novel of the same name by Frank Norris (written in 1895, published in 1899) which also served as the source material for the Erich von Stroheim film ''Greed'' (1924). The piece was written on commission for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and first performed there on October 31, 1992.Christiansen, Richard (25 October 1992)"'McTeague' for Two: Filmmaker Robert Altman teams with composer William Bolcom to create an opera out of a tragic turn-of-the-century tale of greed" ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...''. Retrieved 17 September 2013. Roles References {{authority control English-language operas 1992 operas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A View From The Bridge (opera)
''A View from the Bridge'' is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama with ''A Memory of Two Mondays'' at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The run was unsuccessful, and Miller subsequently revised and extended the play to contain two acts; this version is the one with which audiences are most familiar. The two-act version premiered in the New Watergate theatre club in London's West End under the direction of Peter Brook on October 11, 1956. The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love of, and almost obsession with Catherine, his wife Beatrice's orphaned niece, so he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice's cousin Rodolpho. Miller's interest in writing about the world of the New York docks originated with an unproduced scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Wedding (opera)
''A Wedding'' is a 2004 comic opera based on Robert Altman's 1978 film '' A Wedding'' and was composed by William Bolcom with a libretto written by Robert Altman and Arnold Weinstein. Performance history The Lyric Opera of Chicago commissioned the work, and the opera was first performed there on December 11, 2004. The premiere had stage direction by Altman and was conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. The film's 48 characters were trimmed down to 19 on stage. Since the premiere, ''A Wedding'' has seen performances at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, the University of Houston's Moores School of Music, University of Nebraska's Glenn Korff School of Music, and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. It was performed by the Aspen Opera Center for the Aspen Music Festival and School's 2016 summer season. Recently, the Music Academy of the West commissioned Bolcom to write a chamber version of the opera, with a reduced orchestration. This reorchestration received its premiere on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinner At Eight (opera)
''Dinner at Eight'' is an opera by William Bolcom to a libretto by Mark Campbell (librettist), Mark Campbell based on the play Dinner at Eight (play), of the same name by George S. Kaufman. It was first performed at the Minnesota Opera on 11 March 2017 in a production staged by Tomer Zvulun. The same production received its European premiere in October of 2018 in the Wexford Festival in Ireland. References 2017 operas Operas based on plays Operas set in the United States Operas set during the Great Depression Operas by William Bolcom English-language operas Operas Adaptations of works by Edna Ferber {{English-opera-stub External links Dinner At Eight: A New Opera In Minnesota, Part One , Live Design OnlineDinner At Eight: A New Opera In Minnesota, Part Two , Live Design Online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelve New Etudes For Piano
''Twelve New Etudes for Piano'' (1977–1986) is a piece composed by William Bolcom (b. 1938), awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1988, while he was teaching composition at University of Michigan. The set is "new" relative to Bolcom's first set of ''Twelve Etudes for Piano'' (1959–1966; released on Advance FGR-14S in 1971), and was intended for and dedicated to Paul Jacobs, who died before the composition was complete, and thus the finished set is dedicated to Jacobs, John Musto, and Marc-André Hamelin. Musto gave a partial premiere in 1986, and Hamelin premiered the complete ''Etudes'' in 1987,William Bolcom , ''Pulitzer.org''. Accessed: 1 August 2018. and recorded the pieces on |
William Albright (musician)
William Hugh Albright (October 20, 1944 – September 17, 1998) was an American composer, pianist and organist. Biography Albright was born in Gary, Indiana, and began learning the piano at the age of five, and attended the Juilliard Preparatory Department (1959–62), the Eastman School of Music (1962–63) and the University of Michigan (1962–70), where he studied composition with Ross Lee Finney and George Rochberg, and organ with Marilyn Mason. He interrupted his studies for the 1968–69 academic year when he received a Fulbright scholarship to study with Olivier Messiaen in Paris. Upon his graduation in 1970 he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Michigan, where he taught until his death from liver failure in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1998. Career His music combined elements of tonal and non-tonal classical music (in particular the influence of Messiaen) with American popular music and non-Western music, in what has been described as "polystylistic" or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise
"Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise" is a satirical novelty song by the American composer William Bolcom. It is written for voice and piano, and Bolcom frequently performs it with his mezzo-soprano wife, Joan Morris, accompanying her on the piano. Composed in 1980, It is based on his experiences, in his youth, of playing the piano for women's clubs, and being fed absurd and unappetizing cuisine, including foods resembling Jello salad. An accomplished classical composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Bolcom has written a number of cabaret songs which he has recorded with Morris on a series of 25 albums. "Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise" is particularly noted as an example of his trenchant sense of humor. Bolcom has stated that "Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise" was originally written as a novelty piece to be performed in encores. The song featured at the end of concerts all over the US and Europe, always to an enthusiastic audien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", also "Motherless Child", is a traditional Spiritual. It dates back to the era of slavery in the United States. An early performance of the song was in the 1870s by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. "Blue Gene" Tyranny, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" article ''Allmusic'' Commonly heard during the Civil rights movement in the United States, it has many variations and has been recorded widely. Description The song is an expression of pain and despair as the singer compares their hopelessness to that of a child who has been torn from their parents. Under one interpretation, the repetition of the word "sometimes" offers a measure of hope, as it suggests that at least "sometimes" the singer ''does not'' feel like a motherless child."Sweet Chariot: the story of the spirituals" [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gay Jr., who also spelled his surname as Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), was an American singer and songwriter. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, earning him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul". Gaye's Motown songs include "Ain't That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". Gaye also recorded duets with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Tammi Terrell, and Diana Ross. During the 1970s, Gaye recorded the albums '' What's Going On'' and ''Let's Get It On'' and became one of the first artists in Motown to break away from the reins of a production company. His later recordings influenced several contemporary R&B subgenres, such as quiet storm and neo soul. "Sexual Healing", released in 1982 on the album ''Midnight Love'', won him his first two Grammy Awards. Gaye's last televised appearances we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Church's One Foundation
"The Church's One Foundation" is a Christian hymn written in the 1860s by Samuel John Stone. Background The song was written as a direct response to the schism within the Church of South Africa caused by John William Colenso, first Bishop of Natal. When the bishop was deposed for his teachings, he appealed to the higher ecclesiastical authorities in England. It was then that Samuel Stone became involved in the debate. It inspired him to write a set of hymns titled ''Lyra Fidelium; Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles of the Apostles' Creed'' (1866). "The Church's One Foundation" is included there under the ninth article, ''The holy Catholic Church; The Communion of Saints.'' The controversy is alluded to in the hymn's fourth verse: "Though with a scornful wonder men see her sore oppressed, by schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed." The hymn is typically set to the tune "Aurelia" by Samuel Sebastian Wesley. The words also served as inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's 1896 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaea (Bolcom)
''Gaea'', for Two Pianos Left Hand and Orchestra, also simply called ''Concerto for Two Pianos Left Hand'', is a concert piece by the American composer William Bolcom, written for Leon Fleisher and Gary Graffman. The composition, which received its first performance in Baltimore in April 1996, is constructed in such a way that it can be performed in one of three ways, with either piano part alone with reduced orchestra, or with both piano parts and the two reduced orchestras combined into a full orchestra. The piece was one of several that could fully or partially trace their origin to the loss of use in Fleisher's right hand in 1965, according to Fleisher'Kennedy Center biography See also * List of compositions by William Bolcom *List of works for piano left-hand and orchestra This is a list of concertos and concertante works for piano left-hand and orchestra. The first piano solo was an arrangement by Johannes Brahms of the Chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
