Charles Boone (born

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, on June 21, 1939) is an American composer of

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, living in

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Biography

Charles Boone studied at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, the

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, and

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, Adolph Weiss, and

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were among his teachers. He has been awarded three

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Commissions as well as a two-year

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(DAAD) artist-in-residency in Berlin. His works have been performed by the

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, the

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, and the

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, as well as the Berlin, Avignon, and Ojai Festivals. Performers have included

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, Jan Williams,

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. An archive of the composer's scores, manuscripts, recordings, letters, and other documents is being gathered at the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley. Boone has encountered a number of young people, through teaching and otherwise, who have been meaningful to him. They include Jon Beacham, Dicky Bahto, Claire Jackel, Prumsodun Ok, Rebecca Milsop, Sanghee Park, Jhinryung Oh, Taeko Horigome, Michael Dodge, Masako Tanaka, Ben Wood, Kai-Ting Chuang, Daniel Shin, Peter Varga, and many others.

Selected works

*''A Cool Glow of Radiation'' for flute and electronic sounds (1966) *''Matrix II: The Edge of the Land'' for orchestra (1968) *''First Landscape'' for orchestra (1971) *''Vocalise'' for solo soprano (1972) *''Second Landscape'' for fifteen players (1973), orchestra version (1980) *''Raspberries'' for three percussionists (1974) *''Linea Meridiana'' for nine players (1975) *''San Zeno/Verona'' for thirteen players (1976) *''String Piece'' for twelve strings (1978) *''Little Flute Pieces'' for solo flute (1979) *''Streaming'' for solo flute (1979) *''The Watts Towers'' for solo percussionist (1981) *''Weft'' for six percussionists (1982) *''Trace'' for solo flute and ten accompanying players (1983) *''Solar One'' for flute and trumpet (1985) *''Lightfall, Twenty-Seven Lines, & Last Gleaming'' for solo percussionist (1989) *''Usuyuki'' for seven players and electronic sounds (1994) *''Ellipse'' for cello and electronic sounds (1999) *''Seasons'' for alto flute and electronic sounds (2004) *''Elementary Particles'' for two violins (2010-2012) *''Diverse Texts'' for soprano and violin (2011) *''There Are Blossoms'' for solo violin (2014) *''In die Regionen der Eisgebirge'' for two guitars (2016) *''Things Reverberate All Around'' for flute quartet (2016)

External links

The Quickening Pollen with Lowell High School Orchestra

San Francisco Chronicle Article, The Quickening Pollen

1972 interview with Charles Boone by Charles Amirkhanian, includes performances of five of Boone's compositions

Salabert catalogue
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