Cocaine Lil - pt.1

Title:
Cocaine Lil - pt.1

Description:
Nancy Van de Vate's Cocaine Lil for mezzo (Carole Alston) and four jazz singers (Ruth Spindler, Ferenc Leitner u.a.). Nancy Van de Vate was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and now lives in Vienna, Austria. She attended the Eastman School of Music as a scholarship student and completed her undergraduate education at Wellesley College with a BA in Music in 1952. She received the Master of Music degree in Composition from the University of Mississippi in 1958, and the Doctor of Music degree in Composition from Florida State University in 1968. She did post-doctoral work in electronic music at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire in the summer of 1972. Her English-language musical theater works, Cocaine Lil, after the anonymous American folk poem. and A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum, after the Margaret Atwood poem, have continued to see many performances in Europe and America. Cocaine Lil, is recorded on compact disc by "belcanto ensemble" of Germany on Koch-Schwann. She has composed over 115 works in virtually all forms, from a composition for solo instrument based on only one note to grand opera. In 1994 she was granted dual citizenship by the Austrian government -- permitted only in cases of exceptional artistic achievement -- because of her excellence as a composer and her musical contributions to the Republic of Austria. For many years, while actively composing, her musical activities included teaching at nine universities in the southern United States and Hawaii, performing as violist in symphony orchestras and as a solo and chamber pianist, and serving as activist president of two composers organizations -- most notably the International League of Women Composers, which she founded in 1975 and chaired for seven years. She has contributed articles to Musical America, The International Musician, The Instrumtalist, Symphony News, and numerous other professional periodicals in the United States, Austria, Indonesia, and other countries. She is often interviewed for radio broadcast and for music journal and newspaper articles. For more information go to: http://www.nancy-vandevate.at/

Author:
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Tags:
Nancy Van de Vate, Cocain Lil, Carole Alston,