Bolcom And Morris Press Info Over thirty years ago, budding composer and pianist william bolcom decided to bring along his girlfriend (Joan Morris) to join him in a program he was playing http://www.ecu.edu/ecuarts/bolcommorrispress.htm
Extractions: Over thirty years ago, budding composer and pianist William Bolcom decided to bring along his girlfriend (Joan Morris) to join him in a program he was playing for the Mohawk Trail Concerts. It was only the second time they had performed together, but it was far from the last. The performance launched their double-act into a career, and the two have been at it ever since, Bolcom hitting the keys and Morris, the notes. Stoller, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Kay Swift, Kurt Weill, and others. With twenty-two albums recorded to date andperformances around the world, the Pulitzer-prize-winning composer and the mezzo-soprano have captivated audiences with a repertoire that includes everything from jazz and salsa to ragtime and blues. They have performed at renowned venues across the USA in addition to the Tanglewood, Spoleto USA, and Ravinia festivals. Internationally, they performed a concert in Istanbul honoring the Consuls-General and in Italy, as part of Musicus Concentus, as well as in Moscow, Cairo, and London, among others. The
Poet, Essayist Edward Hirsch To Speak At Illinois Wesleyan Composerpianist william bolcom is the1988 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for music for his composition 12 New Etudes for Piano. Originally from Seattle http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/newsrlse/tw257.html
Extractions: 2001 Symposium of Contemporary Music BLOOMINGTON, Ill.William Bolcom, recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for music, will be the featured composer at Illinois Wesleyan University's Symposium of Contemporary Music Feb. 28 and March 1. Bolcom's wife, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, also is a participant. The symposium is free and open to the public. All events will be held in Presser Hall's Westbrook Auditorium, 303 E. University Ave., Bloomington. Established in 1954, the symposium promotes and encourages the performance of contemporary music and recognizes contemporary composers. Last year's featured composer was the acclaimed contemporary artist Libby Larsen. Other past guests have included John Corigliano, Arvo Part, Joseph Schwanter and David Diamond. The two-day event will include a panel discussion on Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. entitled, "Words and Music: The Composer's Approach to Text Setting." Following the panel discussion, members of the audience are invited to a reception in the Presser Hall reception room, sponsored by Delta Omicron, a national professional music fraternity for men and women. On Thursday, March 1, Morris will lead a voice master class at 4 p.m. Music from "Flower Drum Song" by Rogers and Hammerstein, "He Loves Me" by Bock and Harnick, "Harlem on my Mind" by Irvin Berlin, "Camelot" by Lerner and Loewe and "More than you Know" by Vincent Youmans will be performed by Julia Morrison, freshman music theatre major from Arlington Heights, Ill., Penny Hansen, junior music major from St. Charles, Ill., Kristin Stewart, junior music theatre major from Martelle, Iowa, Scott Moreau, senior music theatre major from Litchfield, Maine and Julie Peterson, senior music major from Pontiac, Ill.
Ragtime Tunes; Cabaret Duo Bolcom And Morris Perform In Wright pianist and composer william bolcom and mezzosoprano vocalist Joan Morris have performed cabaret-style songs together for more than 30 years. http://www.reflector.com/featr/newsfd/auto/feed/features/2004/04/16/1082120834.0
Gershwin: Piano Music - George Gershwin , William Bolcom , Joan Morris Back in the 70s, pianist william bolcom and his singer wife Joan Morris made a delightful series of albums on the Nonesuch label of old songs from the first http://www.jazzmusicnet.com/Gershwin_Piano_Music_B000005IY8.html
Extractions: This is a fantastic CD! Back in the 70s, pianist William Bolcom and his singer wife Joan Morris made a delightful series of albums on the Nonesuch label of old songs from the first half of the twentieth century - just glorious voice backed by brilliant piano. As Ira Gershwin might say - who could ask for anything more? The music is not only beautifully performed, you can hear the joy of the performance in every note. And Bolcom and Morris were never better than when doing Gershwin. A combination of two albums, the first part of this CD is all piano. The Gershwin Songbook consists of brief (some under a minute) versions of some of his more popular songs in the way that Gershwin himself famously played them at parties. They demonstrate that Gershwin was as gifted a pianist as he was a composer. The other instrumental tracks are some of Gershwins solo piano pieces, including the wonderful Rialto Ripples, a rag written when he was just seventeen. For me, the pinnacle of both Gershwins and William Bolcoms artistry is reached on the second of the three preludes - a classic study of a bluesy mood.
Bernstein Artists - The American Piano by pianist/composers arising from AfricanAmerican and black Creole roots. Leonard Bernstein Masque (from The Age of Anxiety) (Mayer) william bolcom Rags Zez http://www.bernsarts.com/americanpiano/americanpiano.html
Extractions: "Mr. de Mare's protean talents fit his protean program...the Ives's was played as eloquently as I have ever heard it with warm, if troubled nostalgia." - The New York Times "Mr. De Mare is an amazing artist, and must be doing for contemporary piano literature what the Kronos Quartet has done for the contemporary string quartet. He is sure-fingered and dextrous, and puts his whole soul into his work. The results are remarkable." - UW Gazette , Toronto Praise for Steven Mayer: "...piano playing at its most awesome..." - Bernard Holland, The New York Times "The piano was 'smoking' with overt sidplays of pyrotechnics. Mayer's playing brought sheer delight to his mesmerized crowdleaving attending pianists weeping by the wayside." - Jeff Manookian, The Salt Lake Tribune Anthony de Mare and Steven Mayer Joseph Horowitz, Artistic Director The American Piano explores and celebrates nearly two centuries of keyboard music by American composers, from Anthony Philip Heinrich, the eccentric "Beethoven from Kentucky," to such contemporary masters as John Adams and Philip Glass. It combines the talents of two pianists, both esteemed specialists in American repertoire, and a leading writer and music historian. STEVEN MAYER, credited by The New York Times with "piano playing at its most awesome," has singularly championed the fiendishly virtuosic solos of Art Tatum as a living repertoire; he is also currently recording the complete piano works of Charles Ives.
Composer To Reveal True Charm Of Cabaret - 05/07/02 Preview Joan Morris, mezzosoprano; william bolcom, pianist Detroit Institute of Arts 8 pm Wednesday Tickets $35 Call (313) 833-4005 Comment on this story http://www.detnews.com/2002/entertainment/0205/08/e01-482820.htm
Colonial Symphony Program Notes william bolcom Commedia for Almost Classical Orchestra. william bolcom (b. Seattle , Washington , 1938) American composer and pianist. http://www.colonialsymphony.org/May 8 2004 Program Notes.htm
Extractions: Concert 8:30 PM William Bolcom: Commedia for Almost Classical Orchestra William Bolcom (b. Seattle Washington , 1938) American composer and pianist. Principal works: two operas; one oratorio; seven symphonies; concertos for piano, flute, violin and other instruments; A Seattle Overture and other orchestral scores; works for concert band; eleven string quartets and four violin sonatas along with much other chamber music; choral music; etudes, rags and much other piano music; songs. William Bolcom is a prolific composer who began his career as a child prodigy in both piano and composition. At the age of eleven he began composition and piano lessons at the University of Washington and quickly became a welcome participant in the musical life of Seattle ; he graduated from the University of Washington in 1958. He then went to study with the great French composer Darius Milhaud at Mills College in Oakland , continuing his studies with the venerable French master at the Paris Conservatoire de Musique. Bolcom graduated from Stanford University with a doctoral degree in 1964.
Untitled Document Since their first performance together in 1972, Pulitzer Prize winning composer and pianist william bolcom and mezzosoprano Joan Morris have captivated http://www.kpbs.org/summerfest/biographies_2003/bios_a_e.html
Extractions: Biographies: A-E A-E F-K L-P Q-U V-Z Nico Abondolo At age ten, having played percussion, piano and banjo for five years, Nico Abondolo took up the bass and joined Tom Thumb and the Hangnails. He devoted the next ten years to the study of classical music, including his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age fourteen and numerous appearances for L.A. educational television. These years culminated in winning first prize at the Geneva International Competition in 1983, and in doing so became the first bass player ever to receive first prize in that competition. Read the biography Bruce Adolphe A composer, author, educator and performer, Bruce Adolphe is the Music and Education Advisor for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, founding creative director of PollyRhythm Productions, and the comic keyboard quiz-master of NPR's Piano Puzzlers. Read the biography Franghiz Ali-Zadeh Franghiz Ali-Zadeh was born in Baku, Azerbaijan on 28 May 1947. She studied piano with Ulfan Khalilov and composition with Kara Karaev at the Baku Conservatory, from which she graduated as a pianist in 1970, and as a composer in 1972. From 1973-6 she was Kara Karaev's research assistant, and in 1989 completed her doctoral thesis, "Orchestration in Works by Azerbaijani Composers".
ArkivMusic American Classics - Mckay Suite For Viola, Etc enlisted for this task are the husbandand-wife duo of william bolcom and Joan Morris bolcom, of course, is well known both as a composer and pianist; he and http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=55848
24 March 1997 Preview Illustration Composer and pianist william bolcom and messzsoprano Joan Morris will perform songs by Berlin, Porter and Gershwin during their April 5 show. http://www.uga.edu/columns/032497/preview1.html
Extractions: at Performing Arts Center Illustration: Composer and pianist William Bolcom and messz-soprano Joan Morris will perform songs by Berlin, Porter and Gershwin during their April 5 show. By Bobby Tyler Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and pianist William Bolcom and mezzo-soprano Joan Morris will showcase their considerable talents in a cabaret performance April 5 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall. The program is part of the Performing Arts Center's "Showtime" series. The evening will feature popular songs by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Eubie Blake. Since their first performance together 23 years ago, the husband-and-wife duo of Bolcom and Morris have captivated audiences across the nation and abroad. They have been heralded by the Boston Globe as "one of the great musical collaborations of our time." To date they have recorded 17 albums, the first of which was their best-selling After the Ball: A Treasury of Turn-of-the-Century Popular Songs (Nonesuch, 1974). Morris was nominated for a Grammy for best vocal soloist on a classical album for her performance on that recording.
Ballet Now! At Pacific Northwest Ballet in the Venezuelan composer and pianist and suggested that Stowell choreograph a work to his music for PNB s festivities. william bolcom s arrangement of three http://www.pnb.org/season/ballet-now.html
Extractions: Artifact II is the second section of a four-part, full-length work, titled Artifact , which William Forsythe choreographed for Ballett Frankfurt in 1984. Set to J. S. Bach's "Chaconne" and the first of Forsythe's ballets to be taken into PNB's repertory, Artifact II had its PNB premiere in 1998 during PNB's Silver Anniversary celebration season. That premiere also marked the first performances of
Michelle And David Murray : 2murraysmusic.com The Complete Cabaret Songs of william bolcom and Arnold fullblooded, ravenous for bolcom s sliding melodies The pianist David Murray (Michelle s husband) is http://www.2murraysmusic.com/cdpur.htm
Extractions: Roger Thomas writes: There are areas of the repertoire which quite naturally occupy the territory between classical music and jazz. One such area is cabaret music. I'd include here the songs of Kurt Weill, as likely to be sung by a jazz vocalist as a classical recitalist, and also the remarkable cabaret songs of William Bolcom, former student of Messiaen and an appreciator of Gershwin, who sets texts by Arnold Weinstein. Anyone who enjoys the more demanding kind of jazz singing and/or appreciates, say, the songs of Samuel Barber will find Michelle and David Murray's Blue to be a natural extension of either. Arizona Republic - KBAQ Classical CD of the Week Ken Lafave of the Arizona Republic writes (19 July 2003):
Darius Milhaud -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia , bolcom, william American composer, pianist, and teacher whose compositions encompass many idioms, from popular cabaret songs to more traditional classical http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=354898&query=vincent d'indy&ct=ebi
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Extractions: Page of pages in (Items 1 - 10 of items) You can type more words then click Restart to narrow this search. (Up to 7 words in total.) Page #: Next > Simple Sketches for Piano Simple Sketches for Piano. This publication presents three thematically-related movements for the intermediate pianist that explore a variety of moods and textures. A playf... more details Complete Rags for Piano - Piano Solo Complete Rags for Piano. This exciting new edition includes every piano rag written by William Bolcom and matches the recording by John Murphy. There are 22 compositions, i... more details Carol (Neighbors, on This Frosty Tide) - SATB Soprano.Alto.Tenor.Bass - Sacred Choral Series
Extractions: Concert Line: (202) 707-5502 Under the auspices of the Library of Congress, the acclaimed Beaux Arts Trio pianist Menahem Pressler, violinist Ida Kavafian, and cellist Peter Wiley returns to the Terrace Theater of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. Famed clarinetist Richard Stoltzman will join the Beaux Arts Trio in the world premiere of William Bolcom's Second Piano Quartet, commissioned by the Isenbergh Clarinet Fund in the Library of Congress. The concert will also include the Trio in C major, H. XV, No. 27 by Haydn and the Trio in B major, Op. 8 by Brahms. Since the Beaux Arts Trio became the first trio- in-residence at the Library of Congress in 1982, it has enjoyed great success through concerts the world over. The group performs regularly in cities across the country, as well as Europe, Japan, South America, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand. At the group's 30th anniversary celebration at Indiana University in 1985, the president of the university presented the trio with the University's Medal of Excellence, and President Ronald Reagan awarded each member a silver medallion and commended the group's artistry.
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