which of the following is american composer who is sometimes considered america's premiere composer for the musical stage?
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Twentieth Century American Composers The first American composer to successfully combine popular and serious styles, Gershwin had his first success at the age of nineteen when he wrote the song Swanee. 1924 saw the premiere of his first successful effort in jazz-inspired serious music, the now famous Rhapsody in Blue.
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- Florence B. Price 1887 – 1953. Classical composer. At a Glance … Selected works. Sources. Florence B. Price was the first African-American woman to become famous as a composer of orchestral music.
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- Some of the most famous composers of musicals are: Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Frederick Loewe, Stephen Sondheim, and Leonard Bernstein.
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Music 2 Which composer has been considered to be the single most important phenomenon in the artistic life to the latter half of the nineteenth century? A song structure that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called? Which movement of a symphony is traditionally the slowest? Brahms wrote no symphonies until he was past the age of forty, in part because he was in awe of the symphonies of?
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- Verna Arvey writes that this was the first time an African American conductor led a major symphony orchestra in concert in the United States. 32 Lenox Avenue We learn the origin of the 1936 ballet Lenox Avenue from Verna Arvey, who wrote the script:
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- 1 Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong. 2  is one of the most successful and influential jazz musicians in history. 3  Ludwig Van Beethoven. 4  was one of the greatest composers of classical music. 5  Marian Anderson. 6  was a world-renowned opera singer. 7  Michael Franti. 8  sends a message of peace and tolerance through his music.
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Richard Wagner Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) was without question the most popular and influential German opera composer in the second half of the 19th century, who introduced numerous innovations in operatic conventions while writing in a highly original musical style.
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ROBERT ASHLEY Interview by Jason Gross (November 1997) The last thing you'd say about composer Robert Ashley is that he's complacent. He brings a risky, unproven challenge to music today: creating American operas for television. Other artists such as Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson and John Adams have brought their theatrical work to the stage for years but none of them have decided that TV should be their prime medium.
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George Balanchine George Balanchine, regarded as the foremost contemporary choreographer in the world of ballet, came to the United States in late 1933 following an early career throughout Europe. The son of a composer, Balanchine early in life gained a knowledge of music that far exceeds that of most of his fellow choreographers.
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Home Page The victory of music is at once a victory of the human spirit for they are intertwined forever and inseparable.. - Nicholas Wing. Chief Legal Counsel Overture-Finale by Nicholas Wing, composer (c) 2015 Nicholas Wing.
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George Balanchine The greatest choreographer of our time, George Balanchine, is responsible for the successful fusion of modern concepts with older ideas of classical ballet. Balanchine received his training in Imperial Russia before coming to America in 1933.
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Michael Riedel Choplin uses American creators and performers for his Broadway-style productions, and Paris audiences have responded enthusiastically. “An American in Paris” is his first New York-bound production.
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Jazz White musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931), Jack Teagarden (1905–1964), and Joe Venuti (1903–1978) began to copy the jazz style of New Orleans bands, and soon jazz was an American national phenomenon, appealing to sophisticates and young audiences around the country.
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Famous Composers Known For: Writing several famous operas. Verdi is considered to this day to be one of the best composers of operas in the 19th century alongside Richard Wagner. Some of his work has even been taken in by mainstream pop culture including the “Grand March” and “Libiamo ne’ lieti calci” (The Drinking Song). Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).
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William Grant Still William Grant Still, (born May 11, 1895, Woodville, Mississippi, U.S.—died December 3, 1978, Los Angeles, California), American composer and conductor and the first African American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra in the United States.
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Leroy Anderson Leroy Anderson; was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. John Williams described him as one of the great American masters of light orchestral music.
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George Gershwin In 1929, Gershwin supervised the world premiere recording of An American in Paris with Nathaniel Shilkret and the Victor Symphony Orchestra. Gershwin's role in the recording was rather limited, particularly because Shilkret was conducting and had his own ideas about the music.
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- Romantic era/20th Century-He is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. In the 1920s he turned to neoclassical music. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso, fugue and symphony).
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William Grant Still William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. Often referred to as the Dean of African-American composers, Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera. Still is known most for his first symphony, which was until the 1950s the most widely performed symphony composed by an American. Born in Mississippi, he grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, attended Wilberforce University a
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List of major opera composers (See the Lists Consulted section for full details.) The composers run from Jacopo Peri, who wrote the first ever opera in late 16th century Italy, to John Adams, one of the leading figures in the contemporary operatic world.
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About the Composer Aaron Copland. Aaron Copland was one of the most respected American classical composers of the twentieth century. By incorporating popular forms of American music such as jazz and folk into his compositions, he created pieces both exceptional and innovative.
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- Among the famous orchestra leaders who played at the Aragon Ballroom in the big band era of the 1930s and 1940s was Lawrence Welk, who went on to have a successful television career as star of the highly popular Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982.
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Eric Whitacre soars beyond world of choral music Eric Whitacre is the defining voice of American choral music at the start of the 21st century, said Matthew Oltman, music director of Chanticleer. He said that only a few choral composers, such as John Rutter, David Willcocks and Morten Lauridsen, carry similar name recognition in choral music circles.
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Music Apreciation Final Composers J.S. Bach. 18th cnury German composer during the Baroque time period the most famous composer from this time period known for his precision composing and how he composed not fo ra large group but for himself and his students.