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"The chief source of inspiration in my songs are the words themselves, and I try to recreate the emotion I experienced on first reading the poems."
Who is Richard Hundley?
Sure on this Shining Night
Who is Samuel Barber?
This composer is drawn to prose, particularly that which was written by strong women.
Who is Libby Larsen?
This composer often set poetry by e.e. cummings.
Who is John Duke?
This composer often set poetry that used onomatopoeia.
Who is Jake Heggie?
"I really consider that I have given myself a special treat when I have written a song."
Who is Amy Cheney Beach?
La Bonne Cuisine
Who is Leonard Berstein?
Who is William Bolcom?
This composer set an epitaph found in Pennsylvania.
Who is Richard Hundley?
This composer wrote a piece for Mrs. Kennedy, to be performed at the then newly opened Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
"It is the ability to feel how the text of a song is assimilated by the music which distinguishes the singer of real interpretive insight from the vocal virtuoso."
Who is John Duke?
Six Elizabethan Songs
Who is Dominick Argento?
This composer was classified as a "neoromantic", a characterization he was vehemently against.
Who is Lee Hoiby?
Who was Samuel Barber?
This composer is considered a nationalistic composer.
"I always think vocally. Even when writing for violin or timpani, it's the vocalist in me trying to get out."
General William Booth Enters into Heaven
Who is Charles Ives?
This composer is credited with saving African-American spirituals from "oblivion".
Who is HT Burleigh?
This composer is known for his collection of songs that were settings of Emily Dickinson's poetry.
This composer was ahead of his time when it came to experimental compositional techniques.
Who is Charles Ives?
"I've almost given up setting poetry because prose allows me more freedom musically, to make lines longer, to make them go in interesting directions."
Who is Dominick Argento?
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Who is Ben Moore?
This composer studied piano at Northwestern and became close friends with the poet Langston Hughes.
Who is Margaret Bonds?
This composer utilized the poems of an English professor colleague. The poems were called an "elusive form of theater-poetry-lieder-pop-tavernacular-prayer."
Who is William Bolcom?
This African-American composer was a child piano prodigy.
Who is Florence Price?