John Fonville has premiered works by composers including Ben Johnston, called, "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer" in 1990, by what American critic?
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John Fonville John Fonville is a flutist and composer. Fonville specializes in extended techniques on the flute, especially microtonality, and performs on instruments including a complete set of quarter tone (Kingma system) flutes. He has premiered works by composers including Ben Johnston, Salvatore Martirano, Joji Yuasa, Roger Reynolds, Hiroyuki Itoh, and Paul Koonce. He is a member of the Tone Road Ramblers, the Eolus Quintet, and the UCSD Department of Music's Performance Lab. He is the author of "Microtonal Fingerings for Flute" (1987), "A Pedagogical Approach to the Flute Etudes of Joachim Andersen" (1981), and "Ben Johnston's Extended Just Intonation- A Guide for Interpreters" (1991).
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Ben Johnston (composer) Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Jr. (born March 15, 1926 in Macon, Georgia) is a composer of contemporary music in just intonation: "one of the foremost composers of microtonal music" . He was called, "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer" in 1990, by American critic John Rockwell .
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Joyce Millman Joyce Millman is an American television and music critic and writer on popular culture. Her work has been published in "The New York Times" and "The San Francisco Examiner". She was a two-time finalist in criticism for the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 and 1991 for her "Examiner" columns. She was one of the founders of the online magazine "Salon".
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Joseph Pehrson Joseph Pehrson (born August 14, 1950) is an American composer and pianist.
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Mary Ellmann Mary Ellmann (1921–89) was an American writer and literary critic. Magazines she reviewed for included the "New York Review of Books," "The Nation", "Encounter", "The Atlantic Monthly", "Commentary", "The New Republic", "The New Statesman" and "The American Scholar."
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Ruth Shaw Wylie Ruth Shaw Wylie (24 June 191630 January 1989) was a U.S.-born composer and music educator. She described herself as “a fairly typical Midwestern composer,” pursuing musical and aesthetic excellence but not attracting much national attention: “All good and worthy creative acts do not take place in New York City,” she wrote in 1962, “although most good and worthy rewards for creative acts do emanate from there; and if we can’t all be on hand to reap these enticing rewards we can take solace in the fact that we are performing good deeds elsewhere.” She was among the many twentieth-century American composers whose work contributed to the recognition of American “serious” music as a distinct genre.
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Harmonium (Adams) Harmonium is a composition for chorus and orchestra that could be considered a choral symphony in all but name, by the American composer John Adams, written in 1980-1981 for the first season of Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. The work is based on poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson. It is regarded as one of the key compositions of Adams' "minimalist" period. The San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, with conductor Edo de Waart, gave the premiere of the work on 15 April 1981, and subsequently recorded it. The UK premiere was on 13 October 1987 at Birmingham Town Hall, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) conducted by Simon Rattle. Rattle and the CBSO gave the London premiere on 28 July 1990 at The Proms.
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William Westney William Frank Westney (born 1947) is an American classical pianist and professor of music. Westney was the top piano prize-winner of the Geneva International Music Competition, and he appeared thereafter as soloist with such major orchestras as l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Houston, San Antonio and New Haven Symphonies. Westney holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College in New York and a Masters and Doctorate in performance from Yale University, all with highest honors. During his study in Italy under a Fulbright grant he was the only American winner in auditions held by Radiotelevisione Italiana. Solo recital appearances included New York's Lincoln Center, the National Gallery and Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., St. John's, Smith Square in London, National Public Radio ("Performance Today"), and a U.S. State Department tour of Italy. His pianism has been described as “formidable” (New York Times), “rich and distinctive” (Avanti, Milan) and “glorious” (Straits Times, Singapore). Critics have praised his recordings of solo and chamber works for CRI and Musical Heritage Society, and Newsweek.
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Matthew Aucoin Matthew Aucoin (born 1990) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and writer best known for his operas. Aucoin has received commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the American Repertory Theater, the Peabody Essex Museum, Harvard University, and NPR's "This American Life". As a young musical virtuoso, Aucoin has been compared to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, and Leonard Bernstein. Additionally, he is the youngest assistant conductor in the history of the Metropolitan Opera. He was appointed as Los Angeles Opera's first-ever Artist-in-Residence in 2016.
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Morton Gould Morton Gould (December 10, 1913February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
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John Knowles Paine John Knowles Paine (January 9, 1839 – April 25, 1906) was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Paine was one of those responsible for the first significant body of concert music by composers from the United States. The Boston Six's other five members were Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Edward MacDowell, George Chadwick, and Horatio Parker.
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Jonathan Sacks (composer) Jonathan Sacks (born December 14, 1950) is an American composer and orchestrator.
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Ernest Hilbert Ernest Hilbert is an American poet, critic, opera librettist, and editor born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1970.
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Silence: Lectures and Writings Silence: Lectures and Writings is a book by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1961 by Wesleyan University Press. "Silence" is a collection of essays and lectures Cage wrote during the period from 1939 to 1961. The contents of the book is as follows:
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Robert M. Parker Jr. Robert M. Parker Jr. (born July 23, 1947) is a leading U.S. wine critic with an international influence. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter "The Wine Advocate", with his particular stylistic preferences and notetaking vocabulary, have become influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines. He is widely acknowledged to be the most widely known and influential wine critic in the world today.
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Roy Nathanson Roy Jay Nathanson (born May 17, 1951) is an American saxophonist, composer, bandleader, actor and teacher. He became the leader and principal composer of the Jazz Passengers, a six piece group that he founded with Curtis Fowlkes in 1987. They have toured Europe many times and played at major festivals in Finland, Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland, as well as the J.V.C. Festival in New York, the Du Maurier Festival in Canada and toured throughout the United States and Canada. The band has recorded eight albums since their debut release.
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Martin Filler Martin Myles Filler (September 17, 1948) is a prominent American architecture critic. He is best known for his long essays on modern architecture that have appeared in "The New York Review of Books" since 1985, and which served as the basis for his 2007 book "Makers of Modern Architecture", published by New York Review Books.
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Jennifer Higdon Jennifer Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of classical music and composition teacher. She has received many awards including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto.
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Bob Grumman Bob Grumman (2 February 1941 – 2 April 2015) was a mathematical poet and critic of what he called "otherstream" poetry. He was a columnist for "Factsheet Five" from 1987 to 1992, and wrote a regular column for "Small Press Review" beginning in 1993. He was a participant in international mail art since 1985. His work was represented in a number of museums and archives devoted to concrete and visual poetry. Considerations of his work have appeared in "Meat Epoch", "Factsheet Five", "Taproot Reviews" and elsewhere.
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Flute Concerto (Tower) The Concerto for Flute is a composition for solo flute and orchestra by the American composer Joan Tower. The work was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and was composed in 1989. It was first performed at Carnegie Hall on January 28, 1990, by the flutist Carol Wincenc and the American Composers Orchestra under the conductor Hugh Wolff. The piece is dedicated to Carol Wincenc.
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Michael John Trotta Michael John Trotta (born 1978) is an American composer and conductor, and speaker known as “one of the most dynamic composers of choral music of our day.”. He frequently appears as a composer and conductor at Carnegie Hall
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Joseph Kerman Joseph Wilfred Kerman (April 3, 1924 – March 17, 2014) was an American critic and musicologist. One of the leading musicologists of his generation, his 1985 book "Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology" (published in the UK as "Musicology") was described by Philip Brett in "The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" as "a defining moment in the field." He was Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of California, Berkeley.