George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected...
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work for "electric string quartet" by the American avant-garde composer George Crumb. It was composed over the course of a year and is dated "Friday the Thirteenth...
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sensibility, it is exceptionally difficult to sing.) Her collaboration with George Crumb was also a fruitful one; she premiered his song cycle Ancient Voices...
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Robert Dennis Crumb (/krʌm/; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American...
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technique has been normalized in contemporary music, with ample examples by George Crumb, Toru Takemitsu, Helmut Lachenmann, and others) as one of the variety...
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Crumb is an English surname. Those bearing it include: George Crumb (1929–2022), composer David Crumb (born 1962), composer son of George Crumb Ann Crumb...
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Angels (Crumb), a 1970 composition for string quartet by George Crumb Black Angels (album), a 1990 album by Kronos Quartet, featuring Crumb's composition...
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Seasons Lux Aeterna for 5 masked musicians, a 1971 avant-garde piece by George Crumb Symphony N 5 Lux Aeterna, a 2006 avant-garde piece by Vassil Kazandjiev...
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David Crumb (born May 21, 1962) is an American contemporary composer born into a musical family. His father was composer George Crumb, and his sister...
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Tavener – Eternity's Sunrise Thomas Adès – Asyla Andrew Imbrie – Requiem 2001 George Crumb Star-Child Heiner Goebbels – Surrogate Cities Nicholas Maw – Violin Concerto...
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the term "string piano" to describe their use of the piano strings (George Crumb, for instance, refers to the "resources of the 'extended piano'"), such...
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t e West Virginia Music Hall of Fame Class of 2007 Leon “Chu” Berry George Crumb Hazel Dickens Little Jimmy Dickens Johnnie Johnson Clark Kessinger Molly...
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participated in masterclasses of Manfred Trojahn, Edison Denisov and George Crumb, amongst others. His 13 Epigrams for Orchestra were nominated for the...
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Frédéric Chopin (section George Sand)
paid homage to (or in some cases parodied) the music of Chopin included George Crumb, Leopold Godowsky, Bohuslav Martinů, Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky...
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keyboard, playing inside the piano), John Cage (prepared piano), and George Crumb. The Kronos Quartet, which has been among the most active ensembles in...
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Symphony, featuring Alessi as soloist. His 1999 recording of Star-Child, by George Crumb, was voted Best Classical Contemporary Composition at the 43rd Grammy...
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hundred new compositions including music by composers Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Poul Ruders and Gunther Schuller.[citation needed] Starobin was born...
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Star-Child (redirect from Star-Child by George Crumb)
piece written in 1977 for orchestra and voices by the American composer George Crumb. Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times said of the work, "Star-Child…is...
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innovative, he cited the composers Isang Yun, Toru Takemitsu, John Zorn, George Crumb, Olivier Messiaen, Tan Dun, György Ligeti and Maurice Ravel as sources...
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flute & clarinet (1953) Rhapsody for cello, piano & tape on themes of George Crumb & Béla Bartók (1977) Evensong for solo violin (1963) Five Studies for...
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Composers contributing included Milton Babbitt, William Bolcom, David Crumb, George Crumb, Michael Daugherty, John Harbison, Joel Hoffman, Aaron Jay Kernis...
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(1993), Christian Wolff (1994), Luc Ferrari (1995), Henry Brant (1997), George Crumb (2000) and Wolfgang Rihm (2001). His music was performed during the following...
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Zaire four weeks prior to the historic Rumble in the Jungle fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. Footage of his performance was included in the...
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Makrokosmos (category Compositions by George Crumb)
piano by American composer George Crumb. The name alludes to Mikrokosmos, a set of piano pieces by Béla Bartók, one of Crumb's favorite 20th-century composers...
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ECM New Series (2000) Cage The Works for Piano 4 Mode Records (2002) George Crumb: Makrokosmos I and II Mode Records (2004) Ge Gan-ru: Chinese Rhapsody...
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contemporary classical music. At university, he studied with George Crumb, Richard Wernick, and George Rochberg. After college, Levinson went to study composition...
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Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. Three years later, he studied with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy...
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Ann Crumb (May 25, 1950 – October 31, 2019) was an American actress and singer. The daughter of composer George Crumb and mother Elizabeth Crumb, pianist...
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Bernstein; Benjamin Britten; Rhoda Coghill; David Conte; Ronald Corp; George Crumb; Frederick Delius; Howard Hanson; Karl Amadeus Hartmann; Hans Werner...
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Ashley [pupils] Leslie Bassett [pupils] Stephen Chatman Robert Cogan George Crumb [pupils] Aldo Rafael Forte Donald Harris Philip Krumm Michael Kurek Robert...
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