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Ventanas (Revueltas)
''Ventanas'' (Windows) is an orchestral work by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas, written in 1931. A performance of it lasts about 11 minutes. History ''Ventanas'' was Revueltas's third orchestral work, composed immediately after the first versions of '' Cuauhnáhuac'' and ''Esquinas'', and concurrently with the second, large-orchestral version of ''Cuauhnáhuac'' and the ''Duo para Pato y Canario''. It was completed in December 1931 and premiered on 4 November 1932 by the under the composer's direction. Although not so indicated in the published score, Revueltas dedicated ''Ventanas'' to Ángela Acevedo, whom he married in the year of its premiere. Instrumentation ''Ventanas'' is scored for an orchestra of piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, cor anglais, E clarinet, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, and strings. Programmatic content In one programme note, Revueltas gave a rather conventional programmatic descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Berger (composer)
Arthur Victor Berger (May 15, 1912 – October 7, 2003) was an American composer and music critic who has been described as a New Mannerist. Biography Born in New York City, of Jewish descent, Berger studied as an undergraduate at New York University, during which time he joined the Young Composer's Group, as a graduate student under Walter Piston at Harvard, and with Nadia Boulanger and at the Sorbonne under a Paine Fellowship. He taught briefly at Mills College and Brooklyn College, then worked briefly at the ''New York Sun'' and then for a longer period of time at the '' New York Herald Tribune''. In 1953 he left the paper to teach at Brandeis University where he was eventually named the Irving Fine Professor Emeritus. His notable students there included Gustav Ciamaga and Richard Wernick. He taught occasionally at the New England Conservatory during his retirement. He co-founded (with Benjamin Boretz), in 1962, '' Perspectives of New Music'', which he edited until 1964. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Broughton
Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career and has contributed many pieces to music archives, including the 1994 version of the 20th Century Studios fanfare, and conducting the Cinergi Pictures logo composed by Jerry Goldsmith. He has won ten Emmy Awards and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Broughton is currently a lecturer in composition at UCLA. Career Broughton has composed the score for many notable films including Disney films such as ''The Rescuers Down Under'' (1990), '' Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey'' (1993) and its sequel, '' Lost in San Francisco'' (1996), as well as popular westerns such as '' Silverado'' (1985) and '' Tombstone'' (1993). Other films scored by Broughton include ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985), ''Baby's Day Out'' (1994), '' Harry a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Arnold
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. His style is tonal and rejoices in lively rhythms, brilliant orchestration, and an unabashed tunefulness. He wrote extensively for the theatre, with five ballets specially commissioned by the Royal Ballet, as well as two operas and a musical. He also produced scores for more than a hundred films, among these ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (1957), for which he won an Oscar. Early life Malcolm Arnold was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, the youngest of five children from a prosperous Northampton family of shoemakers. Although shoemakers, his family was full of musicians; both of his parents were pianists, and his aunt was a violinist. His great great grandfather was the composer William Hawes, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kamen
Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, and session musician. Biography Early life Michael Arnold Kamen was born in New York City, the second of four sons. His father, Saul Kamen, was a dentist, and his mother, Helen, was a teacher. He was of Jewish heritage. While attending the High School of Music & Art in New York City, Kamen became friends with Martin Fulterman (later known as Mark Snow), who composed the theme music for ''The X-Files'', among other projects. While studying the oboe, Kamen formed a rock- classical fusion band called New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, together with classmates Fulterman and Dorian Rudnytsky, along with Clifton Nivison and Brian Corrigan of Toms River, New Jersey. The group released five albums from 1968 to 1972 (''Self-Titled'', ''Reflections'', ''Faithful Friends'', ''Roll Over'' & ''Freedomburger''). The group performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
