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Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965

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Composed 1916-18. The original ms. had a pencilled-in note saying: "This is the only copy anywhere." See note from Mrs. Cowell 19 Nov. 1959: "The first symphony is a student work, and I hope earnestly for it not to be performed." This is a facsimile of the composer's holograph score, according to Bill Lichtenwanger.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony in B minor / Henry Cowell. 1918. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 45207014 Compo...

Laderman, Ezra

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Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Composed 1980. First performance Los Angeles, 15 September 1981, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carlo Maria Giulini conductor. Dedicated to Carlo Maria Giulini.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony no. IV : symphony for brass and orchestra / by Ezra Laderman. [1983] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52688584 Commissioned by the Detroit Symphony. Composed 1989. First performance Detroit, Detro...

Jenkins, Paul, 1923-2012

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Paul Jenkins (1923- ) is an abstract expressionist, painter, and playwright in New York, N.Y. From the description of Paul Jenkins papers, 1940-2007. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 430380769 Barrault, born in France in 1910, was an esteemed and innovative fixture in French theatre and film for five decades from the 1930s to 1980s. He trained as a mime and an actor, and later directed both screen and stage productions. With Madeleine Renaud, his wife, he founded a theatrical ...

Itō, Teiji

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Teiji Ito was a Tokyo-born composer who resided in New York City. His compositional style reflects Japanese, African, and American influences. Ito is known especially for his theater, dance and film music. A percussion performer, he was particularly interested in the use of percussion instruments in various cultures. Ito composed music for some of the experimental films of his first wife Maya Deren, who died in 1961. Much of his dance and theater music was composed for p...

Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987

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Horst, Louis

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Louis Horst was born to Conrad and Leva Horst on the twelfth of January, 1884, in Kansas City, Missouri. Horst began to study piano at an early age. He became a professional accompanist, playing for silent films, stock theater companies, Broadway rehearsals, and later for many of the modern dance personalities of the thirties and forties. In 1915, Horst joined the Denishawn Company as accompanist; his wife, Betty, was a member of the company. He remained with Denishawn u...

Max, Peter, 1937-

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Erdman, Jean

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Jean Erdman was born in 1916. A native of Honolulu, she began her formal dance instruction at Sarah Lawrence College. Her career as professional dancer began in 1938 as a member of Martha Graham Dance Company, and in the same year she married Joseph Campbell, a professor at Sarah Lawrence College and noted mythologist. In 1943 Erdman began her solo career. Soon afterwards she founded her own company, and in 1948 she founded the Jean Erdman School of Dance. The period from the 1940s to 1960s was ...

Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003

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Composer and teacher at Black Mountain College (1951-1952). From the description of Lou Harrison papers, 1946-1971. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28418179 Composed 1940. First performance Oakland, California, 18 July 1940.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Canticle / Lou Harrison. 1940. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52199133 American composer. From the description of Interview conduc...

Theater of the Open Eye.

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Cage, John, 1912-1992

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John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied composition with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 he began working as an accompanist for dance and a teacher at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. It was here that he first met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would have a lifelong working relationship. Together they were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the...