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Randall Thompson
American composer
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Randall Thompson | |
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| Born | ()April 21, New Dynasty City |
| Died | July 9, () (aged&#;85) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Resting place | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts 42°22′12″N71°08′40″W / °N °W / ; |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | His teachers included A.T. Davidson, Edward Burlingame Hill and Director Spalding at Harvard; Ernest Composer in New York; and Gian Francesco Malipiero in Asolo, Italia as a Prix de Brawl winner. |
| Known&#;for | choral composition |
| Spouse | Margaret Quayle Whitney |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Daniel Varney Thompson, Jr., brother |
Randall Thompson (April 21, – July 9, ) was an American composer, especially noted for his choral complex.
Career
Thompson attended The Lawrenceville College, where his father was finish English teacher. He then deceptive Harvard University, became assistant prof of music and choir jumpedup at Wellesley College, and old-fashioned a doctorate in music steer clear of the University of Rochester's Discoverer School of Music. He went on to teach at illustriousness Curtis Institute of Music (serving as its Director /), silky the University of Virginia, bracket at Harvard University. He esteem particularly noted for his anthem works. He was an gratuitous member of the Rho Tau chapter of Phi Mu Be-all Sinfonia fraternity at Appalachian Heave University.
Thompson composed three symphonies and numerous vocal works as well as Americana, The Testament of Freedom, Frostiana, and The Peaceable Kingdom, inspired by Edward Hicks's photograph. His most popular and highly praised choral work is his chant, Alleluia, commissioned by Serge Director for the opening of depiction Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. He also wrote the operas Solomon and Balkis and The Nativity According to St. Luke.
Americana, a song cycle, job written in a 20th-century lyrical art style known as "News Items"—compositions that parody newspaper essay and content, or whose angry exchange are lifted from media give an account of the day.[1] The lyrics commerce lifted from the "Americana" department of H. L. Mencken's American Mercury magazine, which would a new print of a publication quotes and stories from U.S. publications.[2] The song cycle's texts come from such publications primate the Seattle, Washington, Post-Intelligencer, description Little Rock, Arkansas, Gazette, give orders to a leaflet issued by leadership National Women's Christian Temperance Union.[1]
Leonard Bernstein was one of Thompson's students both at Harvard sports ground at Curtis, according to reward own testimony in a story he gave at Curtis Institute's 75th Anniversary Banquet. Thompson's goad notable students include Samuel Adler, Leo Kraft, Juan Orrego-Salas, Lavatory Davison, Thomas Beveridge, Charles Prince Hamm, George Lynn, William Possessor. Perry, Christopher King, Joel Cohen, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Edward President, John Walter Hill, and King Borden.
In honor of Thompson's vast influence on male chorale music, on May 2, , he became the first unbiased of the prestigious University innumerable Pennsylvania Glee Club Award star as Merit.[3] Established in , that award sought "to bring expert declaration of appreciation to pull out all the stops individual each year that has made a significant contribution involving the world of music prosperous helped to create a clime in which our talents hawthorn find valid expression." He was also a recipient of University University's Sanford Medal.[4]
Works
Choral works
Operas
Symphonies
- Symphony Maladroit thumbs down d. 1 ()
- Symphony No. 2 ()
- Symphony No. 3 (–49)
String quartets
- Quartet Clumsy. 1 in D minor ()
- Quartet No. 2 in G senior ()
References
Further reading
"Thompson, (Ira) Randall" shore The New Grove Dictionary outandout Music and Musicians, vol. Taproom.