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Extractions: William Bolcom Composer/pianist WILLIAM BOLCOM was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1938. Exhibiting musical talent while still very young, he began (at age 11) private composition studies with John Verrall and piano lessons with Berthe Poncy Jacobson at the University of Washington. He continued to perform extensively in the Seattle area and throughout the Northwest. Bolcom earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in 1958, studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College in California and at the Paris Conservatoire de Musique, and earned a doctorate in composition in 1964 from Stanford University, where he worked with Leland Smith. Returning to the Paris Conservatoire, he won the 2e Prix in Composition in 1965. While in Europe he began writing stage scores for theaters in West Germany, continuing at Stanford University, in Memphis, Tennessee, at Lincoln Center/New York, and the Yale Repertory Theater. Various awards throughout his career include: a BMI award (1953) two Guggenheim fellowships (1965 and 1968) several Rockefeller Foundation awards several NEA grants the Marc Blitzstein Award (1966) from the Academy of Arts and Letters (for Dynamite Tonite , an opera for actors written with his long-time collaborator, Arnold Weinstein) two Koussevitzky Foundation Awards (1976 and 1993) for the First Piano Quartet and the Lyric Concerto for Flute and Orchestra - written for James Galway the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1988 for
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Extractions: Composer and pianist, William Bolcom, born in Seattle, Washington, entered the University of Washington at age 11, where he studied piano and composition, earning A. degree there in 1958. Further studies followed with Darius Milhaud at Mills College and at the Paris Conservatoire; he completed his doctorate in composition at Stanford University in 1964. He composed the score, with assistance from Arnold Black, for John Turturro's movie, Illuminata , which opened nationwide in August 1999. His new opera, A View from the Bridge , with libretto by Arthur Miller and Arnold Weinstein, will be premiered October 9, 1999, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, with eight more performances during the season.
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Extractions: William Bolcom The following interview appeared in 20th-Century Music in October, 1999: I spoke with William Bolcom in early August, 1999, a few days after the opening of the film "Illuminata." He talks a mile a minute (appropriately so for a musician so much on the go), and a chat with him is a little like taking a wide-ranging musical tour that keeps ducking around the corner to uncover some unusual niche of classical or vintage pop music. DB: In the last year or so, it seems that Hollywood has come a'courting to what you would call the serious classical composer. I've seen movie scores by Tan Dun ("Fallen"), John Corigliano ("The Red Violin"), Joan La Barbara ("Alien Resurrection") and now yourself. Do I smell a trend here? DB: I vaguely remember that film. DB: Wow! Extraordinary! DB: The use of a small ensemble, was that an economic choice or an aesthetic choice? DB: I notice that just listening through the score - WB: I should tell you that No. 9 is not by Arnold Black, No. 10 is. There was a mistake that was put in there. And so Arnold did do a couple of things. I don't particularly like to underscore. And I've never had much experience with it either, but Arnie, as I say, has done all kinds of things. He's done many other projects before for television, for films, as well as commercials. So, he's an extremely experienced person. He wanted to do a couple of cues, so he did a few and he did them very well. I remember I actually orchestrated one of them for him as he wrote it out.
Extractions: Description Instructions Song Titles Click on the image above to see a larger version. This book has a difficulty rating of 6 on a scale of 1 through 6, with 6 being hardest. Prompt Service Guaranteed Security Order Now Description William Bolcom is a modern day composer influenced by the piano stylings of Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake. This piano style is commonly refered to as "rag" or "ragtime" piano and usually includes a 2/4 time signature, a key of 4 flats, and inspiring cadences throughout the music. This book captures the best of William Bolcom's modern day ragtime compositions for you, the aspiring pianist looking to draw from this revered piano style. Instructions Navigating this website: Browsing: Along the left hand side of each page on this website, you will find a list of categories to browse. When you select one of these categories, you will be taken to a page that contains a list of items within that category. By clicking on the name of a product, you will be given all of the information specific to that item. You will also be given the option of adding that item to your shopping cart. Shipping: PianoHarbor.com is glad to offer UPS as a featured courier with guaranteed delivery dates, 2nd Day and Next Day Air, and online tracking. If you place your in stock order before 2 PM (Eastern) Monday through Friday it will ship the same day! Shipping charges are based on the weight of the items you are ordering and the shipping location. When you check out, you will be given several shipping options (and their costs) before being asked for a credit card number.
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Extractions: The 2002 American Composers Update as published in PAN PIPES , Volume 94, Number 2. William Bolcom In April 2001, William Bolcom traveled to Boston to receive an honorary doctoral degree (his third) from the New England Conservatory of Music. He also judged a young composers' concert for BMI, was a panel member for grants to the Philadelphia Music Project, and gave the keynote speech at the annual Opera America conference in Atlanta, GA. During the 2001-2002 season, pianist Bolcom and his wife, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, are giving performances in Ann Arbor, Farmington, Detroit, Grosse Pointe, and Chelsea, MI; Muskoka, Ontario; Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and Forbach, France. Recordings made in 2001 included First Sonata , with Bolcom and violinist Paul Kantor (September); and an album of songs by lyricist Yip Harburg, with Bolcom, Morris, and Max Morath (October). In 2000, Cooper Square Press reissued
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Extractions: Sonata for Cello and Piano William Bolcom showed an early musical talent, and at 11 years of age, enrolled in the University of Washington. There he studied composition and piano under John Verrall and Berthe Poncy Jacobson. He graduated with a B.A. in 1958. He continued to study music at Mills College in California and the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris. After receiving doctorate in composition from Stanford, he returned to Europe where he composed theatre scores in West Germany. On his return to the United States, he continued to commission work for Standard University and the Yale Repertory among others. Bolcom has been teaching composition at the University of Michigan since 1973. In the fall of 1994 his was named a Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Music.
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Extractions: The composer William Bolcom is the pianist on all but one of the nine works here. That one work is the Viola Suite. There the pianist is Sanford Margolis. McKay used the modest word Suite when I wonder how many listeners would have blinked if he had called it Sonata. It is a soulful and songful work with many emotional moments notable among these being the haunting enchantment of the hollow whisper into which the second movement ( Cantante poetico ) sinks. There are some moments that have you thinking of Bloch but mostly the references were Vaughan Williams and Bax with the emphasis being on RVW. McKay leaves us in no doubt that he is a consummate melodist with the intellectual fibre to construct hoarsely determined and attacking music. If you have time for the sonatas by Arthur Benjamin, Rebecca Clarke and Arnold Bax you will not want to miss out on this. The Viola Suite stands somewhat apart from the other music on this CD.
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Extractions: 123 pages, $17.95, Item number 1701536EC William Bolcom is a modern day composer influenced by the piano stylings of Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake. This piano style is commonly refered to as "rag" or "ragtime" piano and usually includes a 2/4 time signature, a key of 4 flats, and inspiring cadences throughout the music. This book captures the best of William Bolcom's modern day ragtime compositions for you, the aspiring pianist looking to draw from this revered piano style.
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Extractions: Main Page See live article Alphabetical index William Bolcom (born ) is an American composer of chamber, operatic, and symphonic music. Bolcom was born in Seattle , He entered the University of Washington at age 11, where he studied piano and composition . He later studied with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen His opera A View from the Bridge , with libretto by Arthur Miller and Arnold Weinstein, was premiered October 9 , at the Lyric Opera of Chicago As a pianist, Bolcom has performed and recorded his own work frequently in collaboration with his wife, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris. Bolcom and Morris have recorded twenty albums together. Bolcom's setting of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, a full evening's work for soloists, choruses, and orchestra culminated 25 years of work on the piece. Its premiere at the Stuttgart Opera in 1984 was followed by performances in Ann Arbor Chicago 's Grant Park, the Brooklyn Academy of Music St. Louis Carnegie Hall , and London 's Royal Festival Hall , the latter performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin William Bolcom and Joan Morris's website
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Michigan Writers Series - Seaton/Bolcom, 04/19/2002 MWS Home. Playwright Sandra Seaton with Composer/pianist william bolcom. April 19, 2002. william bolcom, DMA, is a Pulitzer Prizewinning composer and pianist. http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/writers/spring02/041902.htm
Extractions: with Composer/Pianist William Bolcom Sandra Seaton Interview with Stephanie Mathson, MSU Libraries Introduction to Presentations By Peter Berg of the MSU Libraries Presentation Part 1 Sandra Seaton Presentation Part 2 William Bolcom Audience Questions Sandra Seaton is the author of the award-winning play The Bridge Party , which dramatizes the way of life of middle-class blacks in the South before the modern civil rights movement. Ms. Seaton collaborated with composer William Bolcom to produce the song cycle for her most recent work, From The Diary of Sally Hemmings . A Professor of English at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, Sandra Seaton teaches courses in playwriting, fiction writing, and African American Literature. Her scholarly work, which has been microfilmed by the Tennessee State Archives, focuses on research about African American communities in the South from colonial times through the era of segregation: http://www.grad.cmich.edu/seaton/Sandra_Seaton.htm
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Extractions: The New York Times ran a feature article about pianist Christopher Taylor recently, during a run of engagements he gave in New York in February (2001). Here's what Times reporter Kathryn Shattuck had to say about this remarkable young artist: Christopher Taylor: Seeking Adventure for Fingers and Mind By KATHRYN SHATTUCK Those who know the pianist Christopher Taylor tend to speak of him in the hushed, reverent tones typically reserved for natural wonders if not the otherworldly. Colleagues trip over words like "innocence," "fervor," "beauty" and "vision" in an attempt to capture his elusive personality. Critics praise his virtuosity, his cerebral interpretations tempered by an aching tenderness, his unconventional programming and his advocacy of late-20th-century music. Mr. Taylor's bold individuality may never have been more evident than at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1993, where he took the bronze medal, becoming the first American to place in the event since 1981. In a year when Rachmaninoff dominated the concerto round, Mr. Taylor bucked the trend with renditions of the Brahms B flat and the Bach D minor. He saved his Rachmaninoff, an "Étude-Tableau," for an encore. Mr. Taylor " Kit to his friends " has always had a mind of his own. "I have described Kit as a kind of Parsifal with a computer mind, with a tremendous innocence in what he projects in music and a fervent belief and devotion that shows in certain works with tremendous conviction," said the pianist Russell Sherman, with whom Mr. Taylor studied on and off for a decade. "He is one of those strange genius types but very well balanced. The basic package is powerful."
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