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GeorgeCrumb New Music
Biography
George Crumb was born in Charleston, West Virginia, on October 24, 1929. His principal teacher in composition was Ross Lee Finney at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the university from which he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
Crumb has been the recipient of numerous honors, awards and commissions, including: the 1968 Pulitzer Prize; the 1971 International Rostrum of Composers (UNESCO) Award; Fromm, Guggenheim, Koussevitsky and Rockefeller Foundation Awards; and is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1995 Mr Crumb became the 36th recipient of the MacDowell medal, an award named in honor of the American composer and awarded annually to a composer, writer or visual artist who, in the judgment of his or her peers has made an outstanding contribution to the nation’s culture. He is internationally recognized as a composer and has traveled abroad extensively for the State Department and other organisations to Asia, Australia and Europe. His music is performed regularly both in the US and around the world and his orchestral works have been performed by all the major American orchestras.
Audience enthusiasm, critical acclaim and colleagues’ praise have been extensive for Crumb’s works. The attributes most frequently cited are: an extraordinarily sensitive ear producing highly refined tinbral nuances, a very powerful evocative sense, and a sureness and concision in realizing his musical intentions.
George Crumb
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Solo
A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979 (1980) 15 minutesFor Solo PianoEP 66833
Easter Dawning (1991) 4 minutesFor CarillonEP 67442
Eine Kleine Mitternacht Musik (2001) 21 minutesFor Solo PianoCommissioned by Emanuele AriuliEP 68044
Five Pieces for Piano (1962) 8 minutesFor Solo PianoEP 66464
Gnomic Variations (1981) 25 minutesFor Solo PianoEP 66905
Makrokosmos, Volume I (1972) 33 minutesTwelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified PianoEP 66539a
Makrokosmos, Volume II (1973) 33 minutesTwelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified PianoEP 66539b
Pastoral Drone (1982) 8 minutesFor OrganEP 66965
Processional (1983) 12 minutes For Solo PianoEP 66991
Sonata (1955) 10 minutesFor Solo CelloEP 6056
Ensemble
An Idyll for the Misbegotten (1985) 15 minutesImages IIIFor Flute and 3 PercussionEP 67094
Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) (1970) 25 minutesImages IFor Electric String Quartet (all doubling Percussion)EP 66304
Celestial Mechanics (1979) 25 minutesMakrokosmos IVCosmic Dances for Amplified Piano, 4 HandsFirst performed 18 November 1979, Alice Tully Hall, New York City, by Gilbert Kalish and Paul JacobsEP 66788
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Dream Sequence (1976) 15 minutesImages IIFor Violin, Violoncello, Piano, Percussion, Glass Harmonica offstage (2 players)EP 66690
Echoes of Time and the River 20 minutesFor 3 Flutes, 3 Piccolos, 3 Clarinets, 3 Horns, 3 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, 6 Percussion, 2 Amplified PianosEP 68061
Eleven Echoes of Autumn (1966) 18 minutesEchoes IFor Violin, Alto Flute, Clarinet and PianoEP 66457
Four Nocturnes (1964) 9 minutesNight Music IIFor Violin and PianoEP 66465
Mundus CanisFor Guitar and PercussionEP 67891
Music for a Summer Evening (1974) 40 minutesMakrokosmos IIIFor 2 Amplified Pianos and 2 PercussionEP 66590
Otherwordly Resonances (2002, revised 2005) Tableaux Book IIFor 2 Amplified PianosWritten for and premiered by Quattro Mani EP 68002
Quest (1990, revised 1994) 25 minutesFor Solo Guitar, Soprano Saxophone, 2 Percussion, Harp and Double BassEP 67575
Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players (1971) 18 minutesFor Electric Flute, Electric Violoncello and Amplified PianoEP 66466
Zeitgeist (1987) 35 minutesTableaux Book IFor 2 Amplified PianosEP 67251
Vocal
A Journey Beyond Time (2003) 40 minutesAmerican Songbook IICycle of Afro-American Spirituals: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot • Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jerico • Steal Away • Oh, a-Rock-a My Soul • The Pregnant Earth: A Psalm for Noontine • Sit Down, Sister • Nobody Knows de Trouble I See • Go Down, Moses • Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child For Voice, 4 Percussion and PianoEP 68063
Ancient Voices of Children (1970) 25 minutesFor Solo Voices and EnsembleS Solo—Boy S Solo—Ob—Mand—Hp—ElecPf (and Toy Piano)—3PercText: Poems by Federico Garcia LorcaEP 66303
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Apparition (1979) 22 minutesFor Soprano and Amplified PianoText: from Walt Whitman’s ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’EP 66832
Federico’s Little Songs for Children (1986) 20 minutesFor Soprano, Flute (Piccolo, Alto and Bass) and HarpEP 67159
Lux Aeterna for Five Masked Musicians (1971) 15 minutesFor Soprano, Bass Flute (& Soprano Recorder), Sitar, 2 PercussionEP 66495
Madrigals Book I (1965) For Soprano, Vibraphone and Double BassCommissioned by the Koussevitzky FoundationFirst performed 11 March 1966, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., by Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano), Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Arthur Weisberg EP 66458
Madrigals Book II (1965) 6½ minutesFor Soprano, Flute (Piccolo, Alto), Percussion Text: Poems by Federico Garcia LorcaEP 66459
Madrigals Book III (1969) 7½ minutesFor Soprano, Harp and PercussionText: Poems by Federico Garcia LorcaEP 66460
Madrigals Book IV (1969) 9 minutesFor Soprano, Flute (Piccolo, Alto), Harp, Double Bass, PercussionText: Poems by Federico Garcia LorcaEP 66461
Night Music I (1963, revised 1976) For Soprano, Piano and PercussionFirst performed 30 January 1964, Le Centre du Musique, Paris, by Barbara Blanchard (soprano) Composed 1963, revised 1976EP 68047
Night of the Four Moons (1969) 16 minutesFor Alto, Alto Flute, Banjo, Electric Cello, PercussionEP 66462
Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death (1968) 30 minutesFor Baritone Solo, 2 Percussion, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass and Amplified PianoText: Poems by Federico Garcia LorcaEP 66463
STAR-CHILD (1977) 33 minutesFor Soprano Solo, Antiphonal Children’s Voices, Male Speaking Chorus, Bell Ringers and Large Orchestra 4(4Picc).4(Ca).4(Eflat).4(Cbsn)—6.7.3.1—8perc—Org—Str Text: freely adapted primarily from Medieval sources of the 13th Century: ‘Dies Irae’ and ‘Massacre of the Innocents’ (Latin)EP 66711
Sun and Shadow 16 minutesFor Female Voice and Amplified PianoText: a cycle of five poems by Federico Garcia LorcaEP 68287
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The Ghosts of Alhambra (2008) 16 minutesSpanish Songbook IFor Baritone, Guitar and PercussionA Cycle of Seven Songs Text: ‘Poema del Cante Jondo’ (‘Poem of the Deep Song’) by Federico Garcia LorcaEP 68286
The River of Life American Songbook IFor Soprano, Percussion and PianoEP 68062
The Sleeper (1984) 3 minutesFor Mezzo-Soprano and PianoFirst performed 1984, Carnegie Hall, New York City, by Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano) and Gilbert Kalish (piano)EP 67015
The Winds of Destiny 45 minutesAmerican Songbook IVFor Voice, 4 Percussion and Amplified PianoEP 68076
The Yellow Moon of Andalusia Spanish Songbook IIIFor Mezzo-Soprano and Amplified Piano
Three Early Songs (1947) 7 minutesFor Voice and PianoNight • Let it be forgotten • Wind ElegyText: John Southey, Sara TesdaleEP 67111
Unto the Hills (2002) 40 minutesAmerican Songbook IIIAppalachian Songs of SadnessFor Amplified Solo Voice, Amplified Piano and Percussion QuartetEP 68001
Voices from a Forgotten World (2006) 46 minutesAmerican Songbook VFor Solo Female and Male Voices, Amplified Piano and 4 PercussionEP 68216
Voices from the Heartland (2010) 50 minutesAmerican Songbook VIIA Cycle of Hymns, Spirituals, Folk Songs and American Indian ChantsFor Soprano and Baritone Soli, Amplified Piano and 4 PercussionCommissioned by the Jebediah FoundationEP 68372
Voices from the Morning of the Earth (2006) 40 minutesAmerican Songbook VIFor Solo Female and Male Voices, Amplified Piano and 4 PercussionEP 68234
Winds of Destiny American Songbook IVFor Solo Female Voice, Amplified Piano and Percussion QuartetEP 68076
Yester-yearFor Soprano and 3 InstrumentalistsEP 68178
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Orchestra
A Haunted Landscape (1984) 18 minutesFor Orchestra3(Picc).3(Ca).3(Eflat).3(Cbsn)—4.3.3.1—Timp—4Perc—Pf(amplifed)—2Hps—StrEP 67003
Variazioni (revised 2010) 25 minutesFor Orchestra3.3.4.3—4.3.3.1—5Perc—Hp—Cel—Mand—StrEP 66524
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