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Joan Tower From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article does not cite any references or sources (July 2007) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. Joan Tower (born September 6 in New Rochelle, New York ) is a contemporary American composer . She became known for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia , a tone poem which structurally depicts a giant redwood from trunk to needles. Among her other prominent pieces are the Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman , which is something of a response to Aaron Copland 's Fanfare for the Common Man , her two string quartets , and an assortment of other tone poems. Tower was pianist and founding member of the Naumburg Award -winning Da Capo Chamber Players , which commissioned and premiered many of her early works, including her widely-performed Petroushskates Tower's style is of the 20th century , and the . The rhythm and melodic flow of her music are very flexible, not limited by tonality or regular meter, and her

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document.writeln(AAMB1); Tower, Joan Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article Joan Tower born Sept. 6, 1938, New Rochelle, N.Y., U.S. U.S. composer. She studied piano as a child, attended Bennington College, and completed her music studies at Columbia University. In 1969 she formed the Da Capo Chamber Players, for which she played piano and wrote many pieces; she left the group in 1984. She is chiefly known for her colourful and often whimsical orchestral compositions, including Sequoia Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (1987), and Silver Ladder (1987). Since 1972 she has taught at Bard College. document.writeln(AAMB2); More on "Joan Tower" from the 32 Volume fanfare - originally a brief musical formula played on trumpets, horns, or similar "natural" instruments, sometimes accompanied by percussion, for signal purposes in battles, hunts, and court ceremonies. The term is of obscure derivation. Joan of Arc, Saint - On her way back Joan heard that John of Luxembourg, the captain of a Burgundian company, had laid siege to Compiegne. Hurrying on, she entered Compiegne under cover of darkness. The next afternoon, May 23, she led a sortie and twice repelled the Burgundians but was eventually outflanked by English reinforcements and compelled to retreat. Remaining until the last to protect the rear guard while ... Chinon - town, Indre-et-Loire departement, Centre region, western France, on the banks of the Vienne River, south-southwest of Tours. It is famous for its medieval streets and a ruined chateau, where the first meeting between St. Joan of Arc and King Charles VII of France took place in 1429. A statue of the 16th-century French writer Francois Rabelais, who was born in the vicinity in about 1494 and ...

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Sign In Your Account Contact Us Search All Composer WorkTitle News Advanced Search Home Composers Works ... FAQ Composers Joan Tower Born: Even as she prepares for her 70th birthday in September 2008, Joan Tower is looking forward as much as she is looking back on a career that already spans over five decades. Hailed as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time" in The New Yorker magazine, Joan Tower was the first woman ever to receive the Grawemeyer Award in Composition in 1990. She was inducted in 1998 into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters, and into the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in the fall of 2004. In January 2004, Carnegie Hall's Making Music series featured a retrospective of Tower's work. This special event showcased numerous artists who regularly perform her music, including the Tokyo String Quartet, pianists Melvin Chen and Ursula Oppens, violist Paul Neubauer, oboist Richard Woodhams, and the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble. Most of these works were then recorded for August 2005 release on the NAXOS recording label. In March 2004, Tower attended the premiere of

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About the composer: Joan Tower Even as she prepares for her 70th birthday in 2008, Joan Tower is looking forward as much as she is looking back on a career that already spans over five decades. Hailed as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time" in The New Yorker magazine , Joan Tower was the first woman ever to receive the Grawemeyer Award in Composition in 1990. She was inducted in 1998 into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters, and into the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in the fall of 2004. In January 2004, Carnegie Hall's Making Music series featured a retrospective of Tower's work. This special event showcased numerous artists who regularly perform her music, including the Tokyo String Quartet, pianists Melvin Chen and Ursula Oppens, violist Paul Neubauer, oboist Richard Woodhams, and the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble. Most of these works were then recorded for August 2005 release on the Naxos recording label. In March 2004, Tower attended the premiere of her new piece, For Daniel, written for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio at the Tucson Winter Festival, and the New York premiere at the 92nd Street Y. She performed the piano part with members of the Muir Quartet at the 2004 Deer Valley Festival in Utah to great acclaim, and returned to Utah in 2005 as composer-in-residence with performances of her orchestral tour-de-force Tambor and several chamber works. A new viola concerto for Paul Neubauer by an orchestral consortium led by the Omaha Symphony and a commission by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will also premiere in the 2005-2006 season.

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Joan Tower The composer in conversation with Bruce Duffie Joan Tower is one of the select group of most notable composers of Classical Music. Rather than enumerate the details of her career, let me refer you to the current Shirmer biography [http://www.schirmer.com/composers/tower_bio.html]. Suffice it to say that she has already established herself in the front-rank of those who keep music moving forward. This interview was done in Chicago in April of 1987, when one of her new pieces was about to be performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. I had the pleasure of sharing a bit of time with her, and here is what was said that afternoon . . . . . Bruce Duffie : So, where's music going today? Joan Tower : Which music? There's pop music. There's classical music. There's folk music. There's all kinds of music. BD: Are we blurring the lines between those kinds of musics? JT: Not enough. I'm beginning to think that we have to blur the lines more. BD: Why? JT: Because I think that classical music is suffering under the weight of being too much in the past as compared to pop music which is very much in the present and is a quite healthy art, at least in that sense. That new stuff is being presented all the time and tossed around and competed with and bought and sold. But classical music is still too much living in the past. BD: You think classical is not a healthy art then?

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register now! Home Genres Classical Music ... T > Tower, Joan Joan Tower (b1938) View Discography Deriving an interest in rhythm and percussion from her South American childhood, Joan Tower took her doctorate at Columbia and served for some years as pianist in her Da Capo Ensemble, in 1972 joining the faculty of Bard College, where she serves as professor. Writing at first principally using serial techniques, she has broadened her style, notably through the influence of her contemporaries and of Messiaen and George Crumb. Her instrumental compositions reflect her own practical experience as a performer and are often written with particular players in mind. Orchestral Music Joan Tower's Music for Cello and Orchestra Silver Ladders and Sequoia Discography EIGHTH BLACKBIRD: Thirteen Ways RILEY: Cantos Desiertos / BEASER / TOWER / LIEBERMANN TOWER: Chamber and Solo Music TOWER: Made in America / Tambor / Concerto for Orchestra Affiliates Classical Points Press Room About Us ... Contact Us Classicsonline.com - Classical music mp3 downloads 11:10:34 PM Friday, January 25, 2008 -100-

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Joan Tower Born: September 6, 1938. New Rochelle, New York Died: Biography Works Links 20th Century Composer Index American composer, pianist, and conductor. Her music, which is exclusively instrumental, often makes overt reference to earlier composers. Every composer finds inspiration in a different place, and each composer chooses how much of that source to reveal to the listener. For Joan Tower, the inspiration for a composition is often very personal. It might be an aspect of her life, such as her upbringing in South America, that provides the impetus for a work, or it might be the impact of an individual, such as her father, on her life. On the other hand, the inspiration might come from works or composers that have influenced her development. In all cases, these elements of inspiration become an integral part of her works. And while her titles may reveal a source of inspiration, they do not suggest any extra-musical program. back to top Works: Orchestral music, including Sequoia (1981), Silver Ladders (1986), and For the Uncommon Woman (1992); concertos for flute, clarinet, cello, violin, and piano, including Homage to Beethoven (1985), Rapids (1996), and Concerto for Orchestra (1991)

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REVIEWS : Joan Tower Concertos Joan Tower, composer American Record Guide September/October 1997 Fanfare "a dazzling yet well-deliberated release that enlivens the prospects for American music." Elmar Oliveira, violin Carol Wincenc, flute Ursula Oppens, piano David Shifrin, clarinet Joseph Silverstein and Max Bragado-Darman conducting The Louisville Orchestra d'Note 1016 (Allegro) 74 minutes This is the first new Louisville Orchestra release in some years-and appears on a fast-growing new independent label, too-and its generous survey of four concertante works by Joan Tower proves to be a revelation for this listener. On the basis of her well-exposed orchestral works such as Sequoia and Silver Ladders (both products of the early 80s, she had seemed to be primarily a concocter of a species of lushly scored, hedonistically picturesque, but somewhat emotionally shallow soundscapes couched in a generically post-stravinskian, quasi-minimalist style. But these four highly concentrated one-movement concertos-written over a six-year span from 1985 and 1991-show Tower to have moved naturally into a much more structurally rigorous and texturally lean dimension-"lean and mean" might be a more apt description , as these are far from complacent works: they are tensile, pithy, full of vim and vinegar.

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Yesterday Service, Inc. Performances - Composer names starting with T Navigation Yesterday's Home Performance List Publisher Links Internet Classical Music Resources ... Troubleshooting Mon. - Sat. 10:00AM to 6:00PM EST. Yesterday Service at Cambridge Music Center 1902 Massachusetts Avenue 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA 02140 USA tel: (617) 547-8263 fax: (617) 661-9246 Contact Esther Breslau by e-mail: or tel: (781)641-0951 Monday through Friday, 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Write to Esther at: 64 Hodge Road, Arlington, MA 02474. Yesterday Service Performance List / Names Starting with T Performances: 167 Composer Title Date Location CityState Group Participants Premiere Taffanel, Paul Wind Quintet in g Killian Hall-MIT Cambridge, MA Radius Ensemble No Tailleferre, Germaine Piano Trio Kneisel Hall Blue Hill, ME Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival Laurie Smukler/Vln, Jerry Grossman/Vc, Marian Hahn/Pf No Tailleferre, Germaine Piano Trio Kneisel Hall Blue Hill, ME Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival Laurie Smukler/Vln, Jerry Grossman/Vc, Marian Hahn/Pf No Tallis, Thomas

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