Sebastian Currier is a New York-based composer who officially subscribes to neither the "uptown" nor "downtown" aesthetic, though if pressed one might perceive his work as being more "uptown" than "down." Currier has held teaching posts at the Juilliard School and Columbia University, and his piece Static (2003) earned him the 2007 Grawemeyer ...
Above all, American composer George Perle is not known for any of his works, but instead for the book Serial Composition and Atonality, a standard textbook used in college-level music courses. This has led to the common misconception that Perle is a serial composer, a designation that is only partly true. Perle works within a highly modified ...
Among Aaron Copland's least-known compositions are his chamber pieces, seldom performed and recorded in spite of the composer's long tenure as the "Dean of American Music." This neglect has been attributed to the supposed difficulty of Copland's modernist style -- often featured in his chamber music -- which some have found less appealing than the ...
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