Draft:Edward Green (composer)

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Edward Green is a contemporary American composer and musicologist. He is a professor at Manhattan School of Music, where he has taught music history, jazz, ethnomusicology, and composition,[1] and at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.[2] Dr. Green received an American Symphony Orchestra League Music Alive! Award in 2004-5,[3] In 2017, he received the First International Symphonic Composition prize of the Orquesta Sinfónica del Congreso Nacional del Paraguay, for his Symphony in C.[4] He received the Kodaly Composer's Award for his Brass Quintet, and a Delius Prize for his Genesis: Variations for Guitar, which premiered at Carnegie Recital Hall performed by David Starobin. [5] His Concerto for Clarinet and Strings, was performed by the North/South Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Max Lifchitz, at Merkin Concert Hall.[6] His choral music has also been warmly reviewed.[7]

Named a Fulbright Senior Specialist by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars in 2009, Dr. Green taught a doctoral course in contemporary American music at the Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires, and later delivered a lecture series under Fulbright sponsorship on Aesthetic Realism and Music in Asunción, Paraguay.[8] He is the editor of China and the West: The Birth of a New Music.[9] and The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington. He has given master classes in the U.S. and abroad on the music of Ellington, whom he regards as "America's greatest composer".[10][11] Since 2009, he has also served on the editorial board of the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music.[12]

Early life and education[edit]

Edward Green was born in Queens, New York on November 12, 1951 to Bernard and Dorothy Spieler Green, and grew up in Jericho, Long Island. In his teenage years he studied piano with Morton Estrin, and composition with Meyer Kupferman. His undergraduate studies in music were at Oberlin College where he studied composition with Richard Hoffman, who had been Arnold Schoenberg’s secretary and amanuensis. Green's interest in Schoenberg resulted in various publications, including on the Op. 24 Serenade, Schoenberg's first overtly 12-tone work.[13] He earned his PhD from New York University in 2008 for his dissertation, Chromatic Completion in the Late Vocal Music of Haydn and Mozart: A Technical, Philosophic, and Historical Study and has lectured by invitation on this topic at academic institutions in the U.S. and abroad[14]

Career[edit]

Film scores and selected discography[edit]

Dr. Green's musical works have been recorded on several labels, including Bridge Records, Traditional Crossroads, North/South Recordings, and Albany Records.[15] His Concerto in C for Trumpet and Orchestra, inspired by the poetry of Eli Siegel, was premiered by the New River Valley Symphony (Virginia) with Paul Neebe, trumpet, who later recorded the piece with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (David S. Wiley, conductor) for Albany Records.[16][17] Edward Green has collaborated with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ken Kimmelman on several award-winning films, including “What Does a Person Deserve” about hunger and homelessness in America, and "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" based on Eli Siegel's poem of the same title.[18]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Edward Green". Manhattan School of Music.
  2. ^ "The Opposites in Music". Aesthetic Realism Foundation.
  3. ^ "Music Alive - New Music USA". newmusicusa.org. May 28, 2021.
  4. ^ R, A. (May 31, 2018). "Compositor estadounidense gana el premio Carlos Lara Bareiro".
  5. ^ Davis, Peter (24 November 1974). "Music in Review". New York Times. New York. p. 58. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  6. ^ Smith, Steve (March 9, 2010). "Strolling Through Castles and Labyrinths". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  7. ^ Tucker, Dennis, "Choral Works by Edward Green" The American Organist (December, 2000) ISSN 0164-3150
  8. ^ "Fulbright Specialist Directory".
  9. ^ Green, Edward (October 10, 2007). "China and the West—The Birth of a New Music". Contemporary Music Review. 26 (5–6): 493–499. doi:10.1080/07494460701652921. S2CID 191583739 – via CrossRef.
  10. ^ Bologna, Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini. "Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini Bologna". www.consbo.it.
  11. ^ Green, Edward (January 8, 2015). The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316194133 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ Green, Edward. “Donald Francis Tovey, Aesthetic Realism, and the Need for a Philosophic Musicology / Donald Francis Tovey, Estetički Realizam i Potreba Za Filozofijskom Muzikologijom.” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, vol. 36, no. 2, 2005, pp. 227–48. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30032170. Accessed 10 Dec. 2023.
  13. ^ Green, Edward (2012). "How Old, How New: Some Notes on Schoenberg's Petrarch setting for the 'Serenade,' Op. 24". Tempo. 66(259): 15-24. doi:10.1017/S0040298212000022.
  14. ^ Green, Edward. “The Principle of Chromatic Saturation in the Late Choral Music of Mozart and Haydn.” The Choral Journal, vol. 46, no. 12, 2006, pp. 34–50. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23556460. Accessed 12 Feb. 2023.
  15. ^ "Listening Post Brief Reviews". The Buffalo News. Buffalo, New York.
  16. ^ Paul Neebe and Brandon Walsh (June 2012). "Edward Green's Concerto in C and the Poetry of Eli Siegel". International Trumpet Guild Journal: 47–54.
  17. ^ "ROSKOTT, C.: Trumpet Concerto / GREEN, E.: Trumpet Concerto in C major / BRADSHAW, R.J.: Sonata for Trumpet and Strings (Neebe)". Presto Music.
  18. ^ "What Does a Person Deserve? - Ken Kimmelman" – via www.youtube.com.
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