Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (October 30, 1864 – November 4, 1953), born Elizabeth Penn Sprague, was an American pianist and patron of music, especially...
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Thomas Jefferson Building (redirect from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium)
free and open to the public. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge was a wealthy patron of the arts and was no relation to Calvin Coolidge, who, coincidentally, was...
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Appalachian Spring (category Music commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)
Copland, later arranged as an orchestral work. Commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Copland composed the ballet music for Graham; the original choreography...
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String Quartet (Webern) (category Music commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)
the Coolidge Festival in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on September 22, 1938, in response to a commission that year from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. When...
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to a composition competition sponsored by Clarke's neighbour, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Out of 72 entries, Clarke's Sonata tied for first with a piece...
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piano, and dedicated to the American musician and philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the set is usually performed complete as a true song cycle although...
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String Quartet No. 5 (Bartók) (category Music commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)
natural sounds, and lonely melodies. The work was commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and is dedicated to her. It was premiered by the Kolisch Quartet...
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Carreno, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Phyllis Fergus Hoyt, Peter Lutkin, Veronica Murphy, and Theodora Sturkow-Ryder. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge organized...
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Ancient Voices of Children (category Music commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)
piano), and percussion (three players). It was commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. The piece premiered at the Library of Congress in...
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American Library of Congress and is dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, an American patron of chamber music. Poulenc preferred composing...
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Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1918 by Chicago native Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, it has been home to a classical music summer performance series...
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Haskova Coolidge (born 1941 as Eliška Hašková), Czech American assistant at the White House and the U.S. Department of State Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, American...
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and piano by Samuel Barber. Written in 1953 on a grant from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, it takes as its basis a collection of anonymous poems...
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The Berkshire String Quartet was founded when music patroness Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge persuaded Kortschak to move his quartet from Chicago to Pittsfield...
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Her sister Mary married scientist Adolph C. Miller. Pianist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge was her first cousin. Mitchell was the first dean of women at...
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Apollo (ballet) (category Music commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)
direction of Mme. A. Youkine. The American patron of the arts Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge had commissioned the ballet in 1927 for a festival of contemporary...
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missionary Elizabeth Compton, Countess of Northampton (1694–1740), British peer Elizabeth Concordia, President of UCHealth Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (1864–1953)...
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dedicated to the American pianist, composer, and arts patron, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. A performance of it lasts about 25 minutes. There are four undated...
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Imagined Wing (category Music commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)
Milhaud. The piece was first presented on October 30, 1944, in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Costumes...
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on commission from Martha Graham, supported by funds from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. The ballet premiered under the title of Herodiade...
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career, and became a noted interpreter of her husband's work. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge organized an effort in 1916 to build and name a studio at MacDowell...
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September 25, 1920, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; it won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Award. The piece takes its title from two early forms of Italian...
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the viola sonata she entered in a 1919 competition sponsored by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Clarke's neighbour and a patron of the arts. In a field of 72...
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for piano and woodwinds. Brescia brought with him the favor of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, patron to modern chamber music, who subsequently subsidized various...
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However, in 1951, the great patron of American chamber music Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge suggested that a festival be held at Kneisel's Blue Hill concert...
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second movement of this quartet. The piece was commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge on March 2, 1927, though the work had already been completed by...
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piano, violin and cello (unpublished, now lost) Winner of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Award 1938 Colloquy for violin and piano (unpublished, manuscript...
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composer, singer, choirmaster and educator. She won the 1964 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Gold Medal, the 1997 Critics Award from the Valparaíso Art Critics...
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conducting position and he proved to be quite successful, winning the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal and the Harriet Cohen International Music Award for young...
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before devoting himself to composition, receiving the patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. According to Benjamin Britten, Bridge had strong pacifist convictions...
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