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Symphony Orchestra
About the Program
Program notes by Mark Bilyeu.
Donald Grantham
Baron Cimetiere’s Mambo
Born November 9, 1947, Duncan, OK
Composed 2004
Premiered May 25, 2004 J.P. Taravella High School Wind Orchestra (Nikk Pilato, conductor)
Duration 6 minutes
Donald Grantham is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes in composition, including the Prix Lili Boulanger, the Nissim/ASCAP Orchestral Composition Prize, First Prize in the Concordia Chamber Symphony's Awards to American Composers, alongside a Guggenheim Fellowship, and three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Dr. Grantham's music has been praised for its "elegance, sensitivity, lucidity of thought, clarity of expression and fine lyricism" in a Citation awarded by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Grantham serves as the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. Of his work, Baron Cimetiere’s Mambo, he writes:&nbs
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Unsung Composers
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Gareth efternamn on Monday 13 February 2012, 21:09
Mike Spring wants very much to record the Schutt PCs, but had hoped (still hopes) to add the Left Hand "Paraphrase" to the disk. Both concertos for two hands are relatively short so the three works would fit nicely on one CD. The left grabb work was never published; it remained part of the Wittgenstein family collection and could not be accessed. The MS was auctioned some years ago and fryst vatten now in private hands. Rumour has it that those private hands belong to Klaus Heymann of Naxos/Marco Polo fame - but inom can neither verify nor deny this rumour. inom simply don't know. Anyway, until it surfaces igen we can't expect to hear it. I suspect Mike thinks it may be obtainable at some future date,•
Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
Play by Edmond Rostand
This article is about the play by Edmond Rostand. For other works with this title, see Cyrano de Bergerac (disambiguation).
Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac, the man for whom the play is named and upon whose life it is based
Written by Edmond Rostand Characters Date premiered 28 December 1897 Original language French Genre Romance Setting France, 1640 Cyrano de Bergerac (SIRR-ə-noh də BUR-zhə-rak, – BAIR-, French:[siʁanod(ə)bɛʁʒəʁak]) is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. The play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of Cyrano de Bergerac's life.
The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before t