Symphony No. 2 (Corigliano)

	Symphony No. 2 (Corigliano) John Corigliano's Symphony No. 2 for Orchestra was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Symphony Hall.Symphony No. 2 (2000) , ''JohnCorigliano.com''. The symphony’s first performance was by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa on November 30, 2000. Instrumentation The symphony is scored for string orchestra (minimum 6 first violin s, 5 second violins, 4 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	John Corigliano John Paul Corigliano Jr. (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School. Corigliano is best known for his Symphony No. 1, a response to the AIDS epidemic, and his film score for François Girard's '' The Red Violin'' (1997), which he subsequently adapted as the 2003 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra ("The Red Violin") for Joshua Bell. Biography Before 1964 Corigliano was born in New York City to a musical family. His Italian-American father, John Paul Corigliano Sr., was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 23 years. Corigliano's mother, Rose Buzen, was Jewish, and an accomplished educator and pianist. He atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yuli Turovsky Yuli Turovsky OC CQ (7 June 193915 January 2013) was a Soviet-born Canadian cellist, conductor and music educator. His name is mostly associated with the I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra, which he founded in 1983 and led until his death 30 years later. Soviet years Turovsky was born in 1939 in Moscow in the Soviet Union (now Russia). He began playing the cello at the age of seven at the Moscow Central Music School. He later attended the Moscow Conservatory from 1957 to 1969, studying with Galina Kozolupova, among others. In 1969 Turovsky obtained first prize at the Soviet-wide cello competition and second prize at the Prague Spring International Music Festival. He also became the lead cello for the Moscow Chamber Orchestra which Rudolf Barshai had founded about fifteen years earlier and this association marked the beginning of Turovsky's recording career. In parallel to his work as a performing cellist, Turovsky taught at the Central Music School and the Conservato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pulitzer Prize For Music-winning Works Pulitzer may refer to: * Joseph Pulitzer, a 20th century media magnate Pulitzer Prize, an annual U.S. journalism, literary, and music award Pulitzer (surname) Pulitzer, Inc., a U.S. newspaper chain Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization for journalists See also * Politzer (other) * Politz (other) Pollitz Pollitz is a village and a former municipality in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Eu ... , Germany {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Compositions By John Corigliano Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature * Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space Composition (music), an original piece of music and its creation Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work ''Composition'' (Peeters), a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction ''Compositions'' (album), an album by Anita Baker Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a video Computer science Function composition (computer science), an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones Object composition, combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions History Composition of 1867, Austro-Hungarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

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