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Frederic Rzewski, the Glossary

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.^[1]

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Pupils of Walter Piston

Alvin Curran

Alvin Curran (born December 13, 1938) is an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer. Frederic Rzewski and Alvin Curran are American male classical composers.

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Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. Frederic Rzewski and Alvin Lucier are American male classical composers.

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Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Frederic Rzewski and Anthony Braxton are American classical pianists, American male classical pianists and music & Arts artists.

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Arista Records

Arista Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Astrakhan

Astrakhan (Астрахань) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in southern Russia.

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Attica Correctional Facility

Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison campus in the Town of Attica, New York, operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

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Attica Prison riot

The Attica Prison Riot, also known as the Attica Prison Rebellion, the Attica Uprising, or the Attica Prison Massacre, took place at the state prison in Attica, New York; it started on September 9, 1971, and ended on September 13 with the highest number of fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Proms

The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Ben Johnston (composer)

Benjamin Burwell Johnston Jr. (March 15, 1926 – July 21, 2019) was an American contemporary music composer, known for his use of just intonation. Frederic Rzewski and Ben Johnston (composer) are American male classical composers, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Modernist composers.

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California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California.

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La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne (CEC; English: The Canadian Electroacoustic Community) is Canada's national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from "pure" acousmatic and computer music to soundscape and sonic art to hardware hacking and beyond.

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Cantaloupe Music

Cantaloupe Music is a Brooklyn-based record label that produces and releases contemporary classical music and other forms of avant-garde music.

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Cedilla

A cedilla (from Spanish, "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French cédille), is a hook or tail (¸) added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation.

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Charlemagne Palestine

Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine (born 1947), known professionally as Charlemagne Palestine, is an American visual artist and musician. Frederic Rzewski and Charlemagne Palestine are American male classical composers.

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Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies

Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies is a music reference book by American music journalist and essayist Robert Christgau.

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Christian Wolff (composer)

Christian G. Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music and classicist. Frederic Rzewski and Christian Wolff (composer) are American male classical composers.

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Christina Petrowska-Quilico

Christina Petrowska Quilico (born December 30, 1948) is a Canadian pianist.

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Christopher Hinterhuber

Christopher Hinterhuber (born 28 June 1973) is an Austrian classical pianist.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Conlon Nancarrow

Samuel Conlon Nancarrow (October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997) was an American-Mexican composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. Frederic Rzewski and Conlon Nancarrow are American male classical composers, Pupils of Roger Sessions and Pupils of Walter Piston.

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Cornelius Cardew

Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble.

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Creative Orchestra Music 1976

Creative Orchestra Music 1976 is an album by American jazz saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton recorded in 1976 and released on the Arista label.

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David Rosenboom

David Rosenboom (born 1947 in Fairfield, Iowa) is a composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator known for his work in American experimental music. Frederic Rzewski and David Rosenboom are American male classical composers.

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Eighth Blackbird

Eighth Blackbird (stylized as eighth blackbird until April 2016) is an American contemporary music sextet based in Chicago, composed of flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello (Pierrot ensemble with percussion).

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El pueblo unido jamás será vencido

"¡!" (English: "The people united will never be defeated") is a Chilean protest song, whose music was composed by Sergio Ortega Alvarado and the text written in conjunction with the Quilapayún band.

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Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.

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Eleonore Schönmaier

Eleonore Schönmaier is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.

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Emanuele Arciuli

Emanuele Arciuli (born in Galatone on 28 June 1965) is an Italian classical pianist.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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For Two Pianos

For Two Pianos is an album by composer Anthony Braxton recorded in 1980 and first released on the Arista label in 1982.

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Garrett List

Garrett List (September 10, 1943 – December 27, 2019) was an American trombonist, vocalist, and composer. Frederic Rzewski and Garrett List are American male classical composers.

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Guernica (Picasso)

Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

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Harry Partch

Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. Frederic Rzewski and Harry Partch are American male classical composers, Modernist composers and music & Arts artists.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henri Pousseur

Henri Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur (23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian classical composer, teacher, and music theorist. Frederic Rzewski and Henri Pousseur are Academic staff of the Royal Conservatory of Liège.

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Hyperion Records

Hyperion Records is a British classical music record label.

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Igloo Records

Igloo Records is a record label run by the not-for-profit association Sowarex in Brussels, Belgium that concentrates on jazz and world music.

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Igor Levit

Igor Levit (Игорь Левит; born 10 March 1987) is a Russian-German pianist who focuses on the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt.

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Imani Winds

Imani Winds is an American wind quintet based in New York City, United States.

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James Tenney

James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist. Frederic Rzewski and James Tenney are American male classical composers.

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Jerome Lowenthal

Jerome Lowenthal (born February 11, 1932) is an American classical pianist. Frederic Rzewski and Jerome Lowenthal are American classical pianists, American male classical pianists and American male pianists.

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Joan La Barbara

Joan Linda La Barbara (born June 8, 1947) is an American vocalist and composer known for her explorations of non-conventional or "extended" vocal techniques. Frederic Rzewski and Joan La Barbara are American contemporary classical music performers.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. Frederic Rzewski and John Cage are American contemporary classical music performers and music & Arts artists.

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John Tyrrell (musicologist)

John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Frederic Rzewski and Karlheinz Stockhausen are composers for piano.

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La Monte Young

La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music. Frederic Rzewski and La Monte Young are American classical pianists, American contemporary classical music performers, American male classical composers, American male classical pianists, composers for piano and music & Arts artists.

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La Repubblica

(English: "the Republic") is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023.

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Larry Austin

Larry Don Austin (September 12, 1930 – December 30, 2018) was an American composer noted for his electronic and computer music works. Frederic Rzewski and Larry Austin are American male classical composers.

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Liège

Liège (Lîdje; Luik; Lüttich) is a city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.

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Lisa Moore (musician)

Lisa Moore (born 1960) is an Australian pianist based in New York City.

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List of compositions by Frederic Rzewski

This is a list of compositions by Frederic Rzewski.

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Luigi Dallapiccola

Luigi Dallapiccola (3 February 1904 – 19 February 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions. Frederic Rzewski and Luigi Dallapiccola are Modernist composers.

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Marc-André Hamelin

Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ (born September 5, 1961) is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations.

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McGill–Queen's University Press

The McGill–Queen's University Press (MQUP) is a Canadian university press formed as a joint venture between McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario.

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Milton Babbitt

Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. Frederic Rzewski and Milton Babbitt are American male classical composers, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, music & Arts artists and Pupils of Roger Sessions.

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Montiano, Magliano in Toscana

Montiano is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Magliano in Toscana, province of Grosseto, in the area of Maremma.

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Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. Frederic Rzewski and Morton Feldman are American male classical composers.

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Musica Elettronica Viva

Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) is a live acoustic/electronic improvisational group formed in Rome, Italy, in 1966.

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Nanosonatas

Nanosonatas (2006–2010) are piano compositions by American composer Frederic Rzewski.

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Naxos

Naxos (Νάξος) is a Greek island and the largest of the Cyclades.

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New Albion

New Albion, also known as Nova Albion (in reference to an archaic name for Britain), was the name of the continental area north of Mexico claimed by Sir Francis Drake for England when he landed on the North American west coast in 1579.

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Nicolas Slonimsky

Nicolas Slonimsky (– December 25, 1995), born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (Никола́й Леони́дович Слoнимский), was a Russian-born American musicologist, conductor, pianist, and composer. Frederic Rzewski and Nicolas Slonimsky are American male classical pianists.

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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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Paladino

Paladino is a surname of Italian origin.

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.

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Philip Corner

Philip Lionel Corner (born April 10, 1933; name sometimes given as Phil Corner) is an American composer, trombonist, alphornist, vocalist, pianist, music theorist, music educator, and visual artist. Frederic Rzewski and Philip Corner are American contemporary classical music performers and American male classical composers.

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Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. Frederic Rzewski and Philip Glass are American contemporary classical music performers, composers for piano and Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy (also known as PA, Phillips Academy Andover, or simply Andover) is a co-educational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students located in Andover, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

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Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Ralph van Raat

Ralph van Raat (born 1978) is a Dutch classical pianist.

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Randall Thompson

Randall Thompson (April 21, 1899 – July 9, 1984) was an American composer, particularly noted for his choral works. Frederic Rzewski and Randall Thompson are American male classical composers.

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Richard Teitelbaum

Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 – April 9, 2020) was an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum are American male classical composers.

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Robert Ashley

Robert Reynolds Ashley (March 28, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American composer, who was best known for his television operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Roger Sessions

Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Royal Conservatory of The Hague

The Royal Conservatoire (Koninklijk Conservatorium, KC) is a conservatoire in The Hague, providing higher education in music and dance.

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Sam Melville

Samuel Joseph Melville (born Samuel Joseph Grossman, 1934 – September 13, 1971), was the principal conspirator and bomb setter in the 1969 bombings of eight government and commercial office buildings in New York City.

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Secularity

Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion.

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Sergio Ortega (composer)

Sergio Ortega Alvarado (February 2, 1938 – September 16, 2003) was a Chilean composer, pianist, poet, teacher and politician.

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Sony Classical Records

Sony Classical is an American record label founded in 1924 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records.

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Stanley Sadie

Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.

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Stéphane Ginsburgh

Stéphane Ginsburgh (born 27 November 1969) is a Belgian pianist of Austrian origin.

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Stephen Drury (musician)

Stephen Drury (born April 13, 1955) is an American pianist, conductor and electronic musician. Frederic Rzewski and Stephen Drury (musician) are American classical pianists and American male classical pianists.

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Steve Reich

Stephen Michael Reich (better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Frederic Rzewski and Steve Reich are Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Rzewski

Also known as Rzewski.

, Liège, Lisa Moore (musician), List of compositions by Frederic Rzewski, Luigi Dallapiccola, Marc-André Hamelin, McGill–Queen's University Press, Milton Babbitt, Montiano, Magliano in Toscana, Morton Feldman, Musica Elettronica Viva, Nanosonatas, Naxos, New Albion, Nicolas Slonimsky, Nonesuch Records, Paladino, Pauline Oliveros, Philip Corner, Philip Glass, Phillips Academy, Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven), Princeton University, Ralph van Raat, Randall Thompson, Richard Teitelbaum, Robert Ashley, Robert Christgau, Roger Sessions, Rome, Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Sam Melville, Secularity, Sergio Ortega (composer), Sony Classical Records, Stanley Sadie, Stéphane Ginsburgh, Stephen Drury (musician), Steve Reich, Stradivarius (record label), Sub Rosa (label), The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, Thomas Kotcheff, Ticknor and Fields, Tom Johnson (composer), Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Tuscany, U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission, University of California, San Diego, University of Cincinnati, Ursula Oppens, Variation (music), Vincent Bouchot, Walter Piston, Walter Zimmermann, Westfield, Massachusetts, Yale University.

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Academic staff of the Royal Conservatory of Liège

Pupils of Walter Piston

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