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- “Made in America” Commission for Joseph Schwantner
(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.
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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.