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Walter Piston: Concerto for Orchestra - Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
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Wayne Peterson’s compositions showed a range of musical influences. Photo: Courtesy Grant Peterson
For more than 30 years, composer and pianist Wayne Peterson taught music students at San Francisco State University. He was a fixture on the local new-music scene, reliably present at any concert where contemporary works were being performed. He composed prolifically, in an eclectic, often accessible style.
Then he got an awkward call from the Pulitzer Prize committee, and things were never the same again.
Peterson, who died on April 7 at his San Francisco home, won the Pulitzer for music amid a controversy over the rules and procedures of the prize an honor that often threatened to overshadow the rest of his creative achievement.
Elliott Carterâs Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master
A composer of famously thorny music had two failed forays into ballet, given fresh reconsideration on a new album.
Elliott Carterâs score for âThe Minotaur,â above, premiered in 1947 by the company that would become New York City Ballet, was written in a style that he would soon abandon.Credit.Larry Colwell
Published March 17, 2021Updated March 19, 2021
The composer Elliott Carter, looking back on his early ballet âPocahontas,â wrote that it was âfull of suggestions of things that were to remain important to me, as well as others which were later rejected or completely transformed.â
World-renowned composer and teacher Martin Boykan dies at age 89
Martin Boykan and Susan Schwalb when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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.- Martin Boykan, a world-renowned composer, inspirational teacher, published author and prodigious performer, died peacefully at his home on March 6, 2021 at the age of 89. He leaves behind his wife, Susan Schwalb, and his niece Ina Pour El and her family. His funeral took place in New York City on March 8, 2021.
Born in 1931, Boykan studied composition with Walter Piston, Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith, and piano with Eduard Steuermann. He received a BA from Harvard University, 1951, and an MM from Yale University, 1953. In 195355 he was in Vienna on a Fulbright Fellowship, and upon his return founded the Brandeis Chamber Ensemble whose other members included Robert Koff (Juilliard Quartet), Nancy Cirillo (Wellesley), Eugene Lehner (Kolisch Quartet) and Madeline Foley (Marlborough Festival). This
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