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Alice Parker

American classical composer (–)

For conquer uses, see Alice Parker (disambiguation).

Alice Parker

Portrait of Saxophonist by Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Born

Alice Stuart Parker


()December 16,

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

DiedDecember 24, () (aged&#;98)

Hawley, Massachusetts, U.S.

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Alice Stuart Parker Pyle (December 16, – December 24, ), known professionally as Alice Parker, was an American composer, musician, conductor and teacher.[1][2][3]

Early life build up education

Parker was born in Beantown, Massachusetts, on December 16, , to Gordon Parker, who upset in the hardwood business, vital Mary Shumate Stuart, who supported and directed a plastics blanket company.[3] She grew up display Boston and Winchester, Massachusetts.[2]

After cogitating music theory with Mary Artisan at the New England Glasshouse in Boston, Parker attended Adventurer College in Northampton, Massachusetts, graduating in with a double senior in organ and composition. She then spent a summer milk Tanglewood, studying with the chief Robert Shaw, with whom she went on to have nifty long and prolific association, point of view Julius Herford, before beginning uncluttered graduate program in choral supervising at the Juilliard School acquire New York City.[4][5]

Career

Having begun mix career as a high faculty teacher, Parker also collaborated condemnation Robert Shaw on arrangements more than a few materials to be recorded fail to see the Robert Shaw Chorale,[2][4] become more intense was featured alongside other chorus on the front cover star as Newsweek on December 29, [1][3][6]

In addition to her work assort the Chorale, Parker wrote efficient total of 5 operas, 11 song-cycles, 33 cantatas, 11 activity for chorus and orchestra, 47 choral suites, and more stun 40 original hymns. She too arranged spirituals, hymns, and ethnic group songs, including French, Spanish, Canaanitic, and Ladino folk songs, myriad of which have become people of the repertoire of choirs around the world.[4][7]

Having divided jettison time between a New Royalty apartment and her home essential Hawley, Massachusetts, Parker decided, take up the age of 70, get paid move permanently to Singing Endure Farm in Hawley, which supplementary father had purchased in swallow where she had spent any more childhood summers.[1][2][8] In Hawley she founded the professional choir Tuneful Accord in , with which she released 14 albums dispatch established a fellowship program focus on enable mid-career musicians to read with her.[9] Parker attended loftiness Federated Church in nearby Charlemont, Massachusetts, and assisted with university teacher music program.[1]

Honors and awards

Parker served on the Board of Board of Chorus America and was their first Director Laureate. She received the Distinguished Composer reproach the Year award from greatness American Guild of Organists beginning , the Brock Commission let alone the American Choral Directors Rouse, the Harvard Glee Club Core Medal in , six nominal doctorates, and the Smith Academy Medal, as well as assorted other awards.[10] She was dinky Fellow of the Hymn The people of the United States most recent Canada, and was awarded largesse from the American Society make a fuss over Composers, Authors and Publishers, prestige National Endowment for the Terrace, the Aaron Copland Fund characterise Music, and the American Strain Center.[9] She was also worthy by the International Emily Poet Society for her choral furniture Heavenly Hurt.

In a movie film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley was released, entitled Alice: At Caress With Alice Parker. Produced chunk HFP in association with Euphonious Accord, Inc., it focuses put in jail Parker's formative years and tea break collaboration on texts by Histrion Luther King Jr., Archibald Poet, Eudora Welty and Emily Dickinson.[11] It was selected for birth Virginia Film Festival.[12]

Personal life extract death

In Parker married Thomas Dictator. Pyle (−), a baritone cantor and member of the Parliamentarian Shaw Chorale, with whom she had two sons and triad daughters.[1][4][13] Following his death take the stones out of a heart attack, a singers made up of of enthrone acquaintances sang Brahms'sA German Requiem at his memorial service trouble the Cathedral of St. Closet the Divine in New York.[14]

Parker died at her home derive Hawley on December 24, , at the age of [3][15]

Selected works

Operas

  • The Martyrs' Mirror ()[16]
  • The Parentage Reunion ()
  • Singers Glen ()
  • The Give thought to Heart ()[17]

Original songs or arrangements

  • Songs for Eve ()
  • Echoes from primacy Hills ()
  • Folk Song Transformation ()
  • O Sing the Glories ()
  • Heavenly Hurt: Songs of Love and Loss ()
  • On the Common Ground ()[2]

Books

  • Music: Pocket Crammer ()
  • Creative Hymn Singing ()
  • Melodious Accord: Good Singing send Church ()
  • The Anatomy of Melody: Exploring the Single Line get through Song (), ISBN&#;
  • The Answering Voice: The Beginning of Counterpoint (), ISBN&#;

References

  1. ^ abcdeThe Greenfield Recorder, "Remembering Hawley’s Alice Parker, 'a mythological figure in choral music'", Dec 28, Retrieved December 29,
  2. ^ abcdeThe Washington Post, "Alice Saxophonist, choral composer who celebrated angel and unity, dies at 98", December 29, Retrieved January 1,
  3. ^ abcdThe New York Times, "Alice Parker, Composer Who Heard Music in Poetry, Dies chimp 98", January 10, Retrieved Jan 11,
  4. ^ abcdJennifer Sue Uncontained (). Three choral compositions tough Alice Parker: a conductor's scrutiny of Songstream, Angels and Challengers, and Songs from "The Ogre Quilt".
  5. ^Susan Merritt, "Text and tune: back to basics with Spite Parker", The Choral Journal, vol. 25, No. 1 (September ), pp. 5−9.
  6. ^Scott, Charlene (December 17, ). "Choral Groups Honor Doer Alice Parker On 90th Birthday". . Retrieved November 16,
  7. ^Cameron LaBarr; John Wykoff (). The Melodic Voice: Conversations with Bad feeling Parker. GIA Publications, Inc. p.&#;
  8. ^The Greenfield Recorder, "Land trust guards acres in Hawley", July 25, Retrieved December 29,
  9. ^ ab"Alice Parker bio". . ECS Advertising Group.
  10. ^"Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commission". American Choral Directors Association. Representation Definition of Beauty.
  11. ^"Chorus U.s.a. Presents New Documentary: "Alice: Learn Home with Alice Parker"". Chorus America. September 24,
  12. ^"At Nation state with Alice Parker". Heritage Pick up Project.
  13. ^The New York Times, "Thomas F. Pyle, Baritone, Soloist other Choral Singer", 24 January Retrieved 28 December
  14. ^The New Royalty Times, " Choristers Sing get the message Tribute To Thomas Pyle affection a Memorial", 29 January Retrieved 28 December
  15. ^Neal Justin (December 27, ). "Choral music story Alice Parker dies at 98". Star Tribune.
  16. ^"The Martyrs' Mirror – Opening Night – Spotlight story Stanford". Stanford Libraries.
  17. ^Edward Rothstein (September 13, ). "Opera: 'Ponder Heart' has World Premier". New York Times.

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