What American composer who died in 1978 was associated with an American Opera Company located in Jackson, Mississippi?
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Mississippi Opera The Mississippi Opera is an American opera company located in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded in 1945, the company presents an annual season of opera consisting of two fully staged opera productions and smaller concerts and workshops open to the public. The company's productions are performed at the Belhaven University Center for the Arts. Composer William Grant Still and soprano Leontyne Price both have associations with the company.
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William Grant Still William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas.
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Jackson Symphony Orchestra (Michigan) The Jackson Symphony Orchestra (JSO) is an American orchestra based in Jackson, Michigan. The orchestra's main performing venue is the Sheffer Music Hall of Jackson College. The orchestra's season typically consists of five orchestral concerts, a holiday concert, and a number of outreach concerts within the Jackson community.
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Irwin Heilner Irwin Heilner (b. New York City, May 14, 1908; d. January 18, 1991) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. His works are published by American Composers Alliance.
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William J. G. Turner William John Gascoyne ("Bill") Turner (October 20, 1952 – June 26, 1987) worked extensively as a composer, director, dramatist, producer and actor. He wrote for nearly 30 productions, including three operas and numerous musicals.
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Huck Hodge Huck Hodge (born 1977, Gainesville, Florida) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Ann Callaway Ann Marie Callaway (born October 28, 1949 in Washington, D.C.), who uses the name Ann Callaway, is an American composer.
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Orlando Opera The Orlando Opera is Orlando, Florida's professional opera company, founded in 1958. The opera performed multiple times a year in the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre and other venues in the central Florida region. On April 16, 2009 the company announced it will suspend all operations and close its doors due to poor economic conditions. The company will file Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
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Jubilee (opera) Jubilee is an opera in three acts composed by Ulysses Kay to a libretto by Donald Dorr. The opera is based on the narrative in Margaret Walker's 1966 novel "Jubilee" which described her biracial grandmother's experiences as a slave and then as a free woman during the Reconstruction Era. It was first performed on 20 November 1976 in Jackson, Mississippi by Opera South who had commissioned the work for the U.S. Bicentennial. The premiere performance was conducted by James DePreist with Hilda Harris as Vyry, the opera's protagonist. "Jubilee" was revived by Opera South in 1977 and then disappeared after Margaret Walker threatened to sue if there were any further performances.
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Minnesota Opera Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was founded in 1963 by the Walker Art Center, and is known for premiering such diverse works as "Where the Wild Things Are" by Oliver Knussen (based on the children's novel by Maurice Sendak) and "Frankenstein" by Libby Larsen. Its latest commissioned piece and world premiere, "The Grapes of Wrath" – based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and libretto by Michael Korie – was presented in February 2007. The President and General Director is Kevin Ramach. The Artistic Director is Dale Johnson.
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Michael Kamen Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, and session musician.
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Nicola Rescigno Nicola Rescigno (May 28, 1916 – August 4, 2008) was an Italian-American conductor, particularly associated with the Italian opera repertory. "Opera News" said that "Rescigno was a seminal figure in the history of opera in America, a maestro and mentor who shaped the destiny and reputation of two major U.S. companies — Lyric Opera of Chicago and Dallas Opera — as well as countless singing and conducting careers. Vigorous musical integrity, idiomatic style and unfailing support of his singers were the hallmarks of his performances throughout his distinguished career, which lasted more than fifty years."
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John Woods Duke John Woods Duke (July 30, 1899 – October 26, 1984), an American composer and pianist born in Cumberland, Maryland, became arguably best known for his art songs.
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Leonard De Paur Leonard Etienne De Paur (November 18, 1914 – November 7, 1998) was an African-American composer, choral director, and arts administrator.
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Chicago Opera Association The Chicago Opera Association was a company that produced seven seasons of grand opera in Chicago’s Auditorium Theater from 1915 to 1921. The founding artistic director and principal conductor was Cleofonte Campanini, while the general manager and chief underwriter was Harold F. McCormick. When Campanini died in December 1919 he was replaced by the composer Gino Marinuzzi, who staged his own "Jacquerie" as the opening production of the 1920/21 season.
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Gustav Hinrichs Gustav Ludwig Wilhelm Hinrichs (later Anglicized to Hinricks) (10 December 1850 - 26 March 1942) was a German-born American conductor and composer. He immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty, conducting opera in San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia where he founded his own opera company. His compositions include an opera and an accompanying score to the 1925 silent film "The Phantom of the Opera".
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Willis Patterson Willis Charles Patterson (born November 27, 1930) is an African-American bass-baritone, editor, music arranger, and professor emeritus/longtime Associate Dean of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. A Fulbright Scholar and the winner of the Marian Anderson Award, he has performed in opera houses and concert halls internationally. He has served as president of the National Association of Negro Musicians and as executive secretary of the National Black Music Caucus. In 1977 he edited what "The New York Times" described as a "groundbreaking anthology of black art songs."
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Alice Shields Alice Shields (born Alice F. Shields, Manhattan, New York, February 18, 1943) is an American classical composer. She is a respected electronic composer particularly known for her cross-cultural work in opera.
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Vittorio Giannini Vittorio Giannini (October 19, 1903, Philadelphia – November 28, 1966, New York City) was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.
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Robert Russell Bennett Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received Tony Awards recognizing his orchestrations for Broadway shows. Early in his career he was often billed as Russell Bennett.
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Avery Robinson Avery Robinson (1878 – 1965 ) was an American classical composer who worked with, among others, Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson.
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Alan Stone (opera director) Alan Stone (April 28, 1929 – July 9, 2008) was an American opera director, opera singer, and vocal coach. Born and raised in Chicago, Stone notably founded the Chicago Opera Theater in 1974. He served as the company's artistic director for almost two decades, stepping down from the position in 1993 after health problem stemming from a 1984 stroke made it impossible for him to continue.