The Boston School (also called the Stravinsky School) was a group of composers, most of them Jewish, from
Boston, Massachusetts who were influenced by the
neoclassicism of
Igor Stravinsky:
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Arthur Berger[Ramey, Phillip (2005). ''Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time'', p.49-50. .][Marta Robertson, Robin Armstrong, Robin Armstrong (2001). ''Aaron Copland: A Guide to Research'', p.50. .][Berger, Arthur (2002). ''Reflections of an American Composer'', p.246. . Cites Copland, Aaron (1949). "Influence, Problem, Tone", ''Stravinsky: In the Theatre'', p.122.]
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Irving Fine
Irving Gifford Fine (December 3, 1914 – August 23, 1962) was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neoclassical, romantic, and serial elements. Composer Virgil Thomson described Fine's "unusual melodic grace" while Aaron Copland noted ...
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Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss (August 15, 1922 – February 1, 2009) was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor.
Career
Born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922, Foss was soon recognized as a child prodigy. He began piano and theory lessons with J ...
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Alexei Haieff
Alexei Vasilievich Haieff (August 25, 1914 – March 1, 1994) was an American composer of orchestral and choral works. He is known for following Stravinsky's neoclassicism, observing an austere economy of means, and achieving modernistic effect ...
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Harold Shapero
Harold Samuel Shapero (April 29, 1920 – May 17, 2013) was an American composer.
Early years
Shapero was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1920. He and his family later moved to nearby Newton. He learned to play the piano as a chi ...
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Claudio Spies
Carlos Claudio Spies (March 26, 1925 – April 2, 2020) was a Chilean-American composer.
Biography
Early life
Born in Santiago, Chile, of German Jewish parents, Spies completed primary and secondary education in Santiago in 1941, when he p ...
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Leonard Bernstein
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Ingolf Dahl
Ingolf Dahl (June 9, 1912 – August 6, 1970) was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator.
Biography
Dahl was born Walter Ingolf Marcus in Hamburg, Germany, to a German Jewish father, attorney Paul Marcus, and his Swed ...
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John Lessard
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Louise Talma[Moore, Laura McDonald (2008). ''"Holy Sonnets: La Corona" of Louise Talma: Selected Elements of Texture, Technique, and Text'', p.13. . Cites Berger, Arthur (June 1955). "Stravinsky and the Younger Composers", ''Score no 12'', p.41.]
Many of them studied with
Nadia Boulanger
Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.
From a ...
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Irving Fine
Irving Gifford Fine (December 3, 1914 – August 23, 1962) was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neoclassical, romantic, and serial elements. Composer Virgil Thomson described Fine's "unusual melodic grace" while Aaron Copland noted ...
described the music of Stravinsky and his followers as "diatonic and tonal or quasi-modal",
pandiatonic
Pandiatonicism is a musical technique of using the diatonic (as opposed to the chromatic) scale without the limitations of functional tonality. Music using this technique is pandiatonic.
History
The term "pandiatonicism" was coined by Nicola ...
, and concerned with chord spacing and
rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek , ''rhythmos'', "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a " movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". This general meaning of regular re ...
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See also
* The
Second New England School The Second New England School or New England Classicists (sometimes specifically the Boston Six) is a name given by music historians to a group of classical-music composers who lived during the late-19th and early-20th centuries in New England. More ...
, also known as the "Boston Six"
Sources
Composition schools
Culture of Boston
New England
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Neoclassicism (music)
Organizations based in Boston
20th-century American composers
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