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John Anthony Lennon (born 1950 in Greensboro
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, North Carolina
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) is an American
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composer of contemporary classical music
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based in Georgia
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Biography
Early life and education
John Anthony Lennon was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and raised inMill Valley, California
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. He earned a B.A. degree in liberal arts from the University of San Francisco
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, first majoring in English and minoring in philosophy, later adding music courses. He received M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in music composition from the University of Michigan
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, where he studied composition with Leslie Bassett
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and William Bolcom
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.
Academic career
Lennon is Professor Emeritus of Music atEmory University
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in Atlanta
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. He formerly taught at the University of Tennessee
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(starting in 1977), and taught as a guest composer at Northwestern University
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in the spring of 1998.
Composer
Lennon is known particularly for his works forclassical guitar
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(many of which were written for the American guitarist David Starobin
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), including ''Another's Fandango'' (1981), ''Gigolo'' (1996), and the guitar concerto ''Zingari'' (1991), and for several contributions to the classical saxophone repertoire, including "Distances Within Me" (1980) for James Forger, "Symphonic Rhapsody" for Donald Sinta, "Spiral Mirrors" (2009) for the Creviston Fader Duo, "Elysian Bridges" (2011) for the Capitol Quartet, and several other chamber pieces.
Lennon's music is published by C. F. Peters
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History
The company came into being on 1 December 1800 when the Viennese composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812) and the local organist Ambrosius Kühne ...
, E. C. Schirmer, Dorn Publications, Michael Lorimer Editions, Northeastern Publications, Galaxy/Columbia University Press, and Oxford University Press
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. His music has been recorded by CRI
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, Bridge Records
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History
A classical guitarist, David Starobin recorded the Boccherini Guitar Quintet in E minor in the 1970s. This was his first ...
, Contemporary Record Society, Society of Composers/Capstone, and Open Loop, and (as a performer) with the University of Michigan recording series.
Awards
In 1981 Lennon was the recipient of aGuggenheim Fellowship
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. In 1994 he won a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award
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, tying for third place. Additionally, Lennon has also won a Rome Prize
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and been a resident of the MacDowell Colony
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.
Lennon lives in San Rafael, California.
References
External links
John Anthony Lennon official site
from Emory University
Listening
John Anthony Lennon audio files
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