William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American

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and

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. He has received the

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, the National Medal of Arts, a

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, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. He taught composition at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

from 1973 until 2008. He is married to

mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (; ; meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C ...

Joan Morris Joan Morris (born February 10, 1943) is an American mezzo-sopranoProfile
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Early life and education

Bolcom was born in

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. At age 11, he entered the

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to study

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privately with

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and

John Verrall John Weedon Verrall (June 17, 1908April 15, 2001) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Life Prior to his University studies, Verrall studied composition with Donald Ferguson, followed by studies with R. O. Morris in London ...

and

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with Madame Berthe Poncy Jacobson. "He later studied with

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while working on his Master of Arts degree, with

Leland Smith Leland Clayton Smith (August 6, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was an American musician, teacher and computer scientist. He taught at Stanford University for 34 years, and developed the music engraving tool SCORE. Career Smith was born in Oaklan ...

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while working on his D.M.A., and with

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at the

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, where he received the 2ème Prix de Composition".

Career

Bolcom won the

for music in 1988 for '' 12 New Etudes for Piano''. In the fall of 1994, he was named the

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Distinguished University Professor of Composition at the

. In 2006, he was awarded the

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. Notable students include

Gabriela Lena Frank Gabriela Lena Frank (born Berkeley, California, United States, September 1972) is an American pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Gabriela Lena Frank's father is an American of Lithuanian Jewish heritage and her mothe ...

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Derek Bermel Derek Bermel (born 1967, in New York City) is an American composer, clarinetist and conductor whose music blends various facets of world music, funk and jazz with largely classical performing forces and musical vocabulary. He is the recipie ...

Joel Puckett Joel Puckett (born in 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American composer. He comes from a musical family; his father was a classical tubist and in his retirement still plays dixie-land jazz gigs around Atlanta. Joel completed his academic work at ...

, and

David T. Little David T. Little (born October 25, 1978) is a Grammy-nominated American composer, record producer, and drummer known for his operatic, orchestral, and chamber works, most notably his operas ''JFK (opera), JFK,'' ''Soldier Songs'', and ''Dog Days ( ...

. As a pianist, Bolcom has performed and recorded frequently in collaboration with Joan Morris, whom he married in 1975. They have recorded more than two dozen albums together, beginning with the Grammy-nominated ''After the Ball,'' a collection of popular songs from around the turn of the 20th century. Their primary specialties in both concerts and recordings are show tunes, parlor, and popular songs from the late 19th and early 20th century by Henry Russell,

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and others, and

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songs. As a soloist, Bolcom has recorded his own compositions, as well as music by

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and several of the classic

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composers. His compositions have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.

Works

Bolcom's earliest compositions were written when he was around eleven years old; his early influences include

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and

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. His compositions from around 1960 employed a modified

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, under the influence of

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, and

Luciano Berio Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition ''Sinfonia'' and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled '' Sequenza''), and for his pioneering work ...

, whose music he particularly admired. In the 1960s he gradually began to embrace an eclectic use of a wider variety of musical styles. His goal has been to erase boundaries between

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and

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. He has composed four major operas. Three of them, ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' A Wedding'' were commissioned and premiered by the

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and conducted by

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. All of these were composed with librettist

Arnold Weinstein Arnold Weinstein (June 10, 1927 – September 4, 2005) was an American poet, playwright, and librettist, who referred to himself as a "theatre poet". Weinstein is best known for his collaborations with composer William Bolcom, including the ope ...

, sometimes in collaboration with other writers. ''McTeague'', based on the 1899 novel by

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, with libretto by Weinstein, was premiered on October 31, 1992. ''A View from the Bridge'', with libretto by Weinstein and

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, was premiered October 9, 1999. ''A Wedding'', based on the 1978 motion picture by Robert Altman and John Considine, with libretto by Weinstein and Altman, was premiered on December 11, 2004. His fourth opera, ''Dinner at Eight'', composed with librettist Mark Campbell, based on the George S. Kaufman and

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play of the same name, was premiered March 11, 2017, by the commissioning organization, Minnesota Opera. He has also composed concertos such as ''Lyric Concerto'' for Flute and Orchestra for

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, the Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra for Sergiu Luca, the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra for Stanley Drucker, and Concert Suite for

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and

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, composed for University of Michigan professor

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in 1998. He composed his concerto ''

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'' for two pianos (left hand) and orchestra for

Gary Graffman Gary Graffman (born October 14, 1928) is an American classical pianist, teacher and administrator. Early life Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of M ...

and

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, both of whom have suffered from debilitating problems with their right hands. It received its first performance on April 11, 1996 by the Baltimore Symphony conducted by

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. The concerto is constructed so 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. This structure mimics that of a similar three-in-one work by his teacher,

. Bolcom's other works include nine symphonies, twelve string quartets, four violin sonatas, a number of piano rags (one written in collaboration with William Albright), four volumes of ''Gospel Preludes'' for organ, four volumes of cabaret songs, three musical theater works (''Casino Paradise'', ''Dynamite Tonite'', and ''Greatshot''; all with Weinstein), and a one-act chamber opera, ''Lucrezia'', with librettist Mark Campbell. William Bolcom was also commissioned to write ''Recuerdos'' for two pianos by

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Song cycles

Bolcom has written a number of song cycles. A very large portion of these song cycles were cabarets with lyrics by librettist/lyricist Arnold Weinstein and meant to be sung by mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, William Bolcom's wife. These 24 cabarets were released in four volumes from the 1970s to the 1990s and were released all together on CD. Among Bolcom's other song cycles, the most well-known is his setting of William Blake's ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience.'' The recording of this massive work was estimated at $375,000 USD and its length stands at about two and a half hours..

''Songs of Innocence and of Experience''

Bolcom's setting of

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's ''

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'', a three-hour work for soloists, choruses, and orchestra, was a culmination of 25 years of work on the piece. :Inspiration ::At the age of seventeen, William Bolcom wanted to set the complete poems of ''

'' by

to music. As he comprehended the huge diversity of the artistic ideas and the technical styles presented in the poems, he realized that he needed more musical vocabulary of different styles in order to complete his music. This realization also bolstered his ideas that genres of music should not be placed in a hierarchy and that there was no distinction between "serious" music and "popular" music. :Style and instrumentation ::Bolcom incorporated a variety of different musical styles and genres in the music, including modern classical style using pentatonic scales, tonal classical style, bluegrass, country, soul, folk vaudeville, rock musical, and reggae. Bolcom has used instruments that are not usually used in a traditional orchestra but are used in the genres that he chose: saxophones, guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, electric violin, and "country, rock, and folk singers". :Premiere and performances ::According to

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, the premiere of the ''Songs'' at the Stuttgart Opera in 1984 was followed by performances in

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, Grant Park in

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, the

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, and

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, the latter performed by the

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under the direction of

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. :Awards and reception ::In 2004, Naxos Records produced a recording of the ''Songs'' on location at

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, featuring the

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Symphony Orchestra, the student choirs from the same university, University Musical Society Choral Union, Michigan State University Children's Choir, and a variety of solo instrumentalists and singers (who also included

Joan Morris Joan Morris (born February 10, 1943) is an American mezzo-sopranoProfile
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, wife of Bolcom). In 2006, it won four

s for Best Choral Performance, Best Classical Contemporary Composition, Best Classical Album, and Best Producer of the Year, Classical. ::Composer and critic Robert Carl has stated that Bolcom wrote seemingly disparate genres of music with "sincerity," without irony, "as equal partners," and with "love for and mastery of popular music".

Festivals

VocalEssence celebrated the music of William Bolcom with a two-week festival in

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and St. Paul, Minnesota in April 2007. Nine different performances and a number of

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es were part of the festival. The spotlight performance was of Bolcom's setting of William Blake's Songs ''of Innocence and of Experience'', performed in Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis with over 400 musicians performing under projections of Blake's accompanying artwork by Wendell K. Harrington. Eastern Michigan University Celebrated its 16th Biennial Contemporary Music Festival by featuring William Bolcom as a guest composer. The three-day festival showcased a range of Bolcom's compositions as well as a discussion on "Musical Grass-Roots" led by Bolcom himself. Le Piano Ouvert celebrated Bolcom's 75th birthday with a week of concerts and masterclasses in Paris in March 2014. William Bolcom and Joan Morris both performed, and were featured on France Musique in a series of live performances and interviews. The festival was directed by Guy Livingston, Anne de Fornel, and David Levi. Concerts were held at the Mona Bismarck American Center in Paris, and at the Hôtel Talleyrand on Place de la Concorde. In April 2022, as part of the international

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Music Festival, William Bolcom's second piano concerto was premiered by

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and the

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conducted by

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in the auditorium of the Neue Universität Heidelberg.

Ragtime/piano discography

See

Joan Morris Joan Morris (born February 10, 1943) is an American mezzo-sopranoProfile
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page for Bolcom and Morris Discography *''Heliotrope Bouquet: Piano Rags 1900–1970'',

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, 1971 *''Bolcom Plays His Own Rags'', Jazzology, 1972 *''Piano Music By George Gershwin'',

, 1973 *''Pastimes and Piano Rags'',

, 1974 *''Ragtime Back To Back'' (with William Albright), U of M School of Music, 1976 *''Euphonic Sounds'', Omega Classics, 1988 (Reissued in 2019 as ''Scott Joplin: Ragtime Piano Gems'')

References

External links

*
William Bolcom and Joan Morris's website

William Bolcom's page at the Edward B. Marks Music Company website

Texts and titles of vocal settings in alphabetic order.

June 29, 1986 (also Joan Morris); and November 5, 1992
Performance of Graceful Ghost Rag
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