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• American Music Center
  [[Image:Nmusa.png|right|thumb|250px|American Music Center]] <!-- Enter the composer's other works for percussion, unless they already exist as a template. Ex.
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• Actor, Lee
  ...an incredible orchestral tour de force as written by an immensely talented composer.” The CD including Mr. Winstin’s performance of this piece with the Kie .... Conductor Jason Klein has written of Symphony No. 1: “Lee Actor ... is a composer of remarkable skill whose 3-movement symphony has strength, character, and
  7 KB (1,074 words) - 19:57, 6 June 2023
• Thomas, Augusta Read
  ...a Read Thomas has secured for herself a permanent place in the pantheon of American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. She is without question one of th ...ters, "has become one of the most recognizable and widely loved figures in American Music."
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• Percussion History
  ...he stick was shaken, the hooves would rattle. Other instruments of Native American people include rasps made from sticks, whistles made from wood, clay or bon ...is part fits into the orchestra, as parts were often written as though the composer had just written down what may have sounded nice and easy to play on a keyb
  138 KB (22,737 words) - 00:01, 10 May 2019
• American Drum
  |title = American Drum |image = [[Image:American Drum.jpg|Right|300px|]]
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• Agócs, Kati
  ...etters Award, the lifetime achievement award in music composition from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a two-time nominee for Classical Compositi ...f the Immaculate for Lucy Dhegrae and Third Sound Ensemble. As part of its Composer Portraits series, Miller Theatre in New York presented a Kati Agócs portra
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• Gould, Morton
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 – February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
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• Rands, Bernard
  Bernard Rands (born 2 March 1934) is a British-American composer of contemporary classical music. ...The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. From 1989 to 1995 he was composer-in-residence with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
  7 KB (1,017 words) - 02:06, 9 July 2018
• Cerrone, Christopher
  Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984, Huntington, NY) is a composer of dramatic, orchestral, chamber, and electronic music. Hailed as “a risi ...of its annual VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab (Cerrone is the youngest composer to be featured). That same season, Invisible Cities was performed at the Vi
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• Rodriguez, Robert Xavier
  ...His music always speaks, and speaks in the composer’s personal language.” (American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters). Rodríguez has written in all ...erican Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Rodríguez has served as Composer-in-Residence with the San Antonio Symphony and the Dallas Symphony. He cur
  5 KB (774 words) - 04:41, 29 May 2023
• Stamp, Jack
  ...y of Pennsylvania and East Carolina. Other studies include work with noted American composers [[David Diamond]], [[Joan Tower]] and [[Richard Danielpour]]. ...ry and university bands across the United States. He has won the praise of American composers [[David Diamond]], [[Norman Dello Joio]], [[Ron Nelson]], [[Micha
  5 KB (776 words) - 03:45, 20 June 2023
• Babbitt, Milton
  ...s a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. — January 2011 <ref>[http://www.schirmer.co ...n Melby, the theatre composer Stephen Sondheim, and the jazz guitarist and composer Stanley Jordan.
  7 KB (1,117 words) - 00:51, 29 May 2012
• Fine, Vivian
  Studies: Chicago Musical College (1919-1922), American Conservatory (1925-31) ...Taylor award in 2000, and Vivian Fine, A Bio-Bibliography, by the poet and composer Judith Cody (Greenwood Press, 2002).
  7 KB (1,062 words) - 01:45, 23 May 2015
• Foss, Lukas
  The German-born American composer, conductor, pianist, and educator, Lukas Foss, began his musical studies in ...to receive a Guggenheim fellowship. From 1950-1951 he was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and received a Fulbright grant for 1950-1952.
  6 KB (866 words) - 03:01, 28 May 2015
• Albright, William
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> ...d non-tonal classical music (in particular the influence of Messiaen) with American popular music and non-Western music (Gillespie 2001), in what has been desc
  7 KB (1,061 words) - 01:40, 13 October 2013
• Brant, Henry
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> Henry Brant is America’s foremost composer of acoustic spatial music. The planned positioning of performers throughout
  9 KB (1,326 words) - 04:31, 28 April 2022
• Schwendinger, Laura
  ...of Arts and Letters awards (a Goddard Leiberson Fellowship for “mid-career composer of exceptional gifts” and Ives scholarship), First-prize ALEA III, MacDow <!-- Enter the composer's other works for percussion, unless they already exist as a template. Ex.
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• Turner, Kerry Drew
  ...Mr. TurnerԳ major ensembles with whom he performs include the world-famous American Horn Quartet, the stunning Virtuoso Horn Duo, and the Luxembourg Philharmon <b>Composer Bio:</b>"He writes fiendish stuff...inventive, approachable, and entertaini
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• Borroff, Edith
  Studies: American Conservatory (B.M.1946, M.M. 1948), University of Michigan (Ph.D.1958) ...Her areas of research have centered on 17th-century French chamber music, American and contemporary music. Borroff also holds an interest in education and has
  4 KB (536 words) - 18:24, 8 June 2012
• Seale, Carl
  ...y Symphony Orchestra and Professor Emeritus by the University of Texas-Pan American.<ref>http://www.reallygoodmusic.com/rgm.jsp?page=composers2&compid=124546 C <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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