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- “Made in America” Commission for Joseph Schwantner
[posted 27 June 2007]The second recipient of the biennial “Made in America” commission has been announced by the American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL) and the non-profit organization Meet the Composer.
It is Joseph Schwantner, who will compose a new piece that is to be performed by small-budget orchestras in each of the 50 states of the USA. The first performance of Schwantner's work will be given in October of 2008 by the Reno Chamber Orchestra.
[Source: www.playbillarts.com]
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(from JosephSchwantner.com)
Joseph Schwantner was born in Chicago and received his musical and academic training at the Chicago Conservatory and Northwestern University, completing a doctorate in 1968. Previously, he served on the Yale, Eastman and Juilliard faculties and is a member of the Boadr of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Schwantner was the fiirst composer-in-residence with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra as part of the Meet The Composer / Orchestra Residencies Program funded by the Exxon Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
His work, Magabunda “four poems of Agueda Pizarro,” and A Sudden Rainbow, originally recorded on Nonesuch Records by the Saint Louis Symphony, each received a Grammy Award nomination in the category, Best New Classical Composition. Schwantner and his wife Janet currently live in Spofford, New Hampshire.