Boston Musica Viva, the Glossary
Boston Musica Viva is a Boston, Massachusetts-based music ensemble founded by its music director, Richard Pittman, in 1969 and dedicated to contemporary music.[1]
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46 relations: Aaron Copland, Albany Records, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Andy Vores, Bernard Hoffer, Boston, Bruce Brubaker, Carnegie Hall, Chen Yi (composer), Dominique Eade, Donald Harris (composer), Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Elliott Carter, Evan Ziporyn, Fenwick Smith, Frederic Rzewski, Gunther Schuller, György Kurtág, Jörg Widmann, John Cage, John Eaton (composer), John Harbison, Joseph Schwantner, Joyce Mekeel, Library of Congress, Lincoln Center, Neume, Nonesuch Records, Osvaldo Golijov, Pamela Dellal, Patrick Greene (composer), Peter Child, Pulitzer Prize, Ralph Shapey, Rand Steiger, Ronald Thomas (cellist), Shirish Korde, Steven Stucky, Tanglewood, Thea Musgrave, Theo Loevendie, Turin, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, William Kraft, 92nd Street Y.
- American classical music groups
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist and later a conductor of his own and other American music.
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Albany Records
Albany Records is a record label that concentrates on unconventional contemporary classical music by American composers and musicians.
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The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores).
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Andy Vores
Andy Vores (born 1956) is a Welsh classical music and opera composer.
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Bernard Hoffer
Bernard Hoffer (born October 14, 1934) is a Swiss-born American composer and conductor.
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Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Bruce Brubaker
Bruce Brubaker is a musician, artist, concert pianist, and writer from the United States.
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Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Chen Yi (composer)
Chen Yi (born April 4, 1953) is a Chinese-American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist.
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Dominique Eade
Dominique Frances Eade (June 16, 1958) is an American jazz singer and composer.
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Donald Harris (composer)
Donald Harris (April 7, 1931, in St. Paul, Minnesota March 29, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio) was an American composer who taught music at Ohio State University for 22 years.
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born April 30, 1939) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer.
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Evan Ziporyn
Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz.
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Fenwick Smith
Fenwick Smith (1949 – July 19, 2017) was an American flutist.
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Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Anthony Rzewski (April 13, 1938 – June 26, 2021) was an American composer and pianist, considered to be one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time.
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Gunther Schuller
Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician. Boston Musica Viva and Gunther Schuller are culture of Boston.
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György Kurtág
György Kurtág (born 19 February 1926) is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist.
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Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (born 19 June 1973) is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist.
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
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John Eaton (composer)
John Charles Eaton (March 30, 1935 – December 2, 2015) was an American composer.
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John Harbison
John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer and academic.
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Joseph Schwantner
Joseph Clyde Schwantner (born March 22, 1943, Chicago, Illinois) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2002.
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Joyce Mekeel
Joyce Haviland Mekeel (born July 6, 1931 in New Haven, CT and died Dec. 29, 1997, in Watertown, MA) was a composer, harpsichordist, teacher, anthropologist, and sculptor.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Neume
A neume (sometimes spelled neum) is the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.
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Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Records (formerly Warner Bros. Records), and based in New York City.
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Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Noé Golijov (born December 5, 1960) is an Argentine composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work.
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Pamela Dellal
Pamela Dellal (born 1960) is an American mezzo-soprano in opera and concert, a musicologist and academic teacher.
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Patrick Greene (composer)
Patrick Greene (born 1985) is an American composer and performer of contemporary classical music.
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Peter Child
Peter Burlingham Child (born 6 May 1953) is an American composer, teacher, and musical analyst.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
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Ralph Shapey
Ralph Shapey (12 March 1921 – 13 June 2002) was an American composer and conductor.
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Rand Steiger
Rand Steiger (born June 18, 1957, in New York City) is an American composer, conductor, and pedagogue.
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Ronald Thomas (cellist)
Ronald Thomas (born 1954) is an American cellist known for his work as a soloist and chamber musician.
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Shirish Korde
Shirish Korde (born June 18, 1945), is a Ugandan composer of Indian ancestry.
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Steven Stucky
Steven Edward Stucky (November 7, 1949 − February 14, 2016) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.
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Tanglewood
Tanglewood is a music venue and festival in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.
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Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave CBE (born 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music.
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Theo Loevendie
Johan Theodorus Loevendie (born 17 September 1930 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch composer and clarinet player.
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Turin
Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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William Kraft
William Kraft (September 6, 1923 – February 12, 2022) was an American composer, conductor, teacher, timpanist, and percussionist.
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92nd Street Y
92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) is a cultural and community center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at the corner of East 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue.
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See also
American classical music groups
- A Far Cry
- Alea III
- Alma Trio
- Atlanta Chamber Players
- BL Lacerta
- Bach Aria Group
- Beethoven's Wig
- Black Cat Orchestra
- Boston Camerata
- Boston Musica Viva
- Duo46
- Eroica Trio
- Extension Ensemble
- Glenn Miller Orchestra
- Glenn Miller Orchestra (1956–present)
- Hermitage Piano Trio
- La Catrina Quartet
- Lost in the Trees
- Mannheim Steamroller
- Melodia Women's Choir
- Mendelssohn Quintette Club
- New York Harp Ensemble
- New York Woodwind Quintet
- Oberlin Trio
- Orpheus Winds
- Philharmonic Piano Quartet
- Philip Glass Ensemble
- Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
- Poulenc Trio
- Society for New Music
- Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet
- Southeast Symphony
- Steve Reich and Musicians
- Sweetbox
- Ten O'Clock Classics
- The 5 Browns
- The Romanovs (band)
- Theatre of Eternal Music
- Toth Duo
- Triptyq
- Voices of Music
- Washington Symphonic Brass
- Yale Cellos