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...

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...

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...

sensibility, it is exceptionally difficult to sing.) Her collaboration with George Crumb was also a fruitful one; she premiered his song cycle Ancient Voices...

For American composer George Henry Crumb, see George Crumb. George Francis Crum (26 October 1926 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA – 8 September 2007 in...

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...

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...

Walter Piston Rudolf Serkin Beverly Sills George Szell George Walker William Billings Van Cliburn George Crumb Antonín Dvořák Frederick Fennell Arthur Fiedler...

and landmarks of the 20th century by composers such as Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Ralph Shapey and Arnold Schoenberg. He made the world premiere recordings...

vocal technique can be found in the music of Luciano Berio, John Cage, George Crumb, Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Werner Henze, György Ligeti, Demetrio Stratos...

other composers, including James Tenney, and most famously Béla Bartók. George Crumb also used musical palindrome to text paint the Federico García Lorca...

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...

electric cello and amplified piano by the American avant-garde composer George Crumb. It was composed for performance by the New York Camerata in 1971. As...

technique has been normalized in contemporary music, with ample examples by George Crumb, Toru Takemitsu, Helmut Lachenmann, and others) as one of the variety...

Angels (Crumb), a 1970 composition for string quartet by George Crumb Black Angels (album), a 1990 album by Kronos Quartet, featuring Crumb's composition...

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...

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...

innovative, he cited the composers Isang Yun, Toru Takemitsu, John Zorn, George Crumb, Olivier Messiaen, Tan Dun, György Ligeti and Maurice Ravel as sources...

the string quartet Kronos Quartet. It includes, and was named after, George Crumb's 1970 composition Black Angels, the composition which had inspired David...

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...

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...

violinists Julian Rachlin and Jaap Schroeder. Contemporary composers such as George Crumb, Richard Wernick and James Primrosch have written piano compositions...

Cello was written by the American avant-garde composer, George Crumb, in 1955. As one of Crumb's earlier works, it is heavily influenced by the works of...

for the Arts, he directed George Crumb: Voice Of The Whale, a 54-minute portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb. In 1977, with funding from...

Tavener – Eternity's Sunrise Thomas Adès – Asyla Andrew Imbrie – Requiem 2001 George Crumb Star-Child Heiner Goebbels – Surrogate Cities Nicholas Maw – Violin Concerto...

(particularly his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima), Witold Lutosławski, George Crumb, and Helmut Lachenmann. Bowing the body of a string instrument (which...

composition from the University of Pennsylvania under the tutelage of George Crumb. From 1994 to 2021, Higdon was a professor of composition at the Curtis...

extensively in music education textbooks. Similarly, American composers George Crumb and Joseph Schwantner, among others, have used this system in many of...

Symphony, featuring Alessi as soloist. His 1999 recording of Star-Child, by George Crumb, was voted Best Classical Contemporary Composition at the 43rd Grammy...

keyboard, playing inside the piano), John Cage (prepared piano), and George Crumb. The Kronos Quartet, which has been among the most active ensembles in...