50 U.S. Composers: One from each state!

[snyprrr]

Name a famous composer from each one of the fifty states.

(uh...no...I"M NOT DOING THE WORK!!! )

[Brian]

Name a famous composer from each one of the fifty states.

(uh...no...I"M NOT DOING THE WORK!!! )

I don't know how to define "famous," but I nominate you to do Alaska.

I'll do North Dakota

P.D.Q. Bach

[SonicMan46]

As Brian has stated, how do you want to define 'famous'?  Makes a BIG difference, but just to add one from my 'native' state of Michigan (although I now live in NC) - David Ott - 

[Gurn Blanston]

John Phillip Sousa - Washington DC - Greatest US composer.



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Listening to:
Philharmonia Hungarica \ Dorati - Hob 09 16 #17 Minuet in Bb for Orchestra

[monafam]

Nebraska:  Howard Hanson

[Harpo]

NC--Kenneth Frazelle  (I assume James Taylor doesn't count?)

http://www.kennethfrazelle.com/index.html

[Gurn Blanston]

Massachusetts - Karl Henning



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Listening to:
Ronald Brautigam - Hob 20 03 The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross for Keyboard 4th part - Sonata III. Ecce Mulier Filius tuus (John 19, v26)

[DavidW]

Elliott Carter, New York

[secondwind]

Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Louisiana

[hornteacher]

Well Aaron Copland and Steve Reich were born in New York.
Leonard Bernstein and John Adams were born in Massachusetts.
Phillip Glass was born in Maryland.
Charles Ives was from Connecticut.

[Joe Barron]

California: Henry Cowell
Connecticut: Charles Ives
Georgia: Wallingford Riegger
Indiana: Ned Rorem
Kentucky: John J. Becker
Maine: Walter Piston
Mississippi: Milton Babbitt (b. Philadelphia, but PA is taken)
Pennsylvania: Samuel Barber
South Carolina: Carlisle Floyd
West Virginia: George Crumb

Alaska is going to be tough ...

[Air]

Here's a few that came up to my head:

CA: Cage, Cowell... pick one.
WV: Crumb
OR: Harrison
CT: Ives
NH: Beach
ME: Piston

NY will be the hardest one: you realize that half of the well-known American composers were born in NYC right?

[Joe Barron]

Ohio: Ruth Crawford. Ha!

[Joe Barron]

NY will be the hardest one: you realize that half of the well-known American composers were born in NYC right?

I think Delaware's going to be the hardest one.

Arkansas: Conlon Nancarrow

[secondwind]

If we define "famous" in somewhat modest terms, my nomination for Alaska is Matthew Burtner--the only composer I've found who was actually born in the state!  Here is some info:
http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~mburtner/

[Grazioso]

New Jersey: George Antheil
Washington: William Bolcom
Illinois: John Alden Carpenter
Oklahoma: Roy Harris
Texas: Scott Joplin
Florida: Ellen Taafe Zwilich

[SonicMan46]

Thread Duty for the OP of this thread, i.e. the original post needs to be edited w/ the addition of the states (preferrably in alphabetical order), and the composers mentioned - impossible to sort through the posts to see which states are left - just a hint, now - 

[Joe Barron]

Iowa: Robert Suderburg

Maybe not as famous as some others, but I like him a lot. And I agree: we need a master list of states.

[Brian]

Georgia: Wallingford Riegger

I'm glad my name isn't Wallingford Riegger.

[Franco]

Alaska: John Luther Adams