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

Wanderer · August 30, 2009, 01:11:23 PM

Quote from: ' on August 30, 2009, 12:26:45 PM
Giya Kancheli, Georgia
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That would be Georgia the country.

Brian · August 30, 2009, 01:34:18 PM

Quote from: Wanderer on August 30, 2009, 01:11:23 PM
That would be Georgia the country.

If that's the way we're playing...
Ravi Shankar - Indiana
Edward Elgar - New England

WI Dan · August 30, 2009, 07:17:34 PM

Nevada - Eric Whitacre

Alabama - Robert W. Smith

greg · August 30, 2009, 07:35:11 PM

Quote from: Grazioso on August 30, 2009, 05:13:47 AM
Florida: Ellen Taafe Zwilich

Interesting. I though the only composer I've heard of that could even be associated in any way with my state would be Delius....

WI Dan · August 31, 2009, 04:33:59 AM

Thought this might help:

Alabama - Robert W. Smith
Alaska - Matthew Burtner, John Luther Adams
Arizona -
Arkansas - Conlon Nancarrow
California - Henry Cowell, John Cage
Colorado -
Connecticut - Charles Ives
Delaware -
Florida - Ellen Taafe Zwilich
Georgia - Wallingford Riegger
Hawaii -
Idaho -
Illinois - John Alden Carpenter, Miles Davis
Indiana - Ned Rorem
Iowa - Robert Suderburg
Kansas -
Kentucky - John L. Becker
Louisiana - Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Maine - Walter Piston
Maryland - Phillip Glass, Frank Zappa
Massachusetts - Karl Henning, Leonard Bernstein, John Adams
Michigan - David Ott
Minnesota -
Mississippi - Milton Babbit
Missouri - Virgil Thomson
Montana -
Nebraska - Howard Hanson
Nevada - Eric Whitacre
New Hampshire - Amy Beach
New Jersey - George Antheil
New Mexico -
New York - Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Steve Reich
North Carolina - Kenneth Frazelle, Thelonious Monk
North Dakota - P.D.Q. Bach
Ohio - Ruth Crawford
Oklahoma - Roy Harris
Oregon - Lou Silver Harrison
Pennsylvania - Samuel Barber
Rhode Island -
South Carolina - Carlisle Floyd
South Dakota -
Tennessee -
Texas - Scott Joplin
Utah -
Vermont -
Virginia -
Washington - William Bolcom
West Virginia - George Crumb
Wisconsin - Kent Kennan
Wyoming -
Washington D.C. - John Phillip Sousa, Duke Ellington

Joe Barron · August 31, 2009, 06:45:43 AM

Quote from: ' on August 30, 2009, 01:54:26 PM
So they have seceded? I knew Texas had been considering.
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One can only hope ...

jochanaan · August 31, 2009, 09:53:39 AM

I've been trying to think of one from Colorado, but the only name that comes to mind is Glenn Miller. $:-\$ Research pending...

Kudos to the Suderburg mention! I like his music too.

Does it count to say that Antonin Dvorak spent a summer in Iowa?

Szykneij · August 31, 2009, 02:10:18 PM

Edgar Meyer - Tennessee

WI Dan · August 31, 2009, 08:56:11 PM

Update:

Alabama - Robert W. Smith
Alaska - Matthew Burtner, John Luther Adams
Arizona - Charles Mingus
Arkansas - Conlon Nancarrow
California - Henry Cowell, John Cage
Colorado - Harl McDonald
Connecticut - Charles Ives
Delaware -
Florida - Ellen Taafe Zwilich
Georgia - Wallingford Riegger
Hawaii -
Idaho - Ezra Pound, La Monte Young
Illinois - John Alden Carpenter, Miles Davis
Indiana - Ned Rorem
Iowa - Robert Suderburg
Kansas - Charlie Parker
Kentucky - John L. Becker
Louisiana - Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Maine - Walter Piston
Maryland - Phillip Glass, Frank Zappa
Massachusetts - Karl Henning, Leonard Bernstein, John Adams
Michigan - David Ott
Minnesota -
Mississippi - Milton Babbit
Missouri - Virgil Thomson
Montana -
Nebraska - Howard Hanson
Nevada - Eric Whitacre
New Hampshire - Amy Beach
New Jersey - George Antheil
New Mexico -
New York - Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Steve Reich
North Carolina - Kenneth Frazelle, Thelonious Monk
North Dakota - P.D.Q. Bach
Ohio - Ruth Crawford
Oklahoma - Roy Harris
Oregon - Lou Silver Harrison
Pennsylvania - Samuel Barber
Rhode Island - George M. Cohan
South Carolina - Carlisle Floyd
South Dakota -
Tennessee - Edgar Meyer
Texas - Scott Joplin
Utah -
Vermont -
Virginia -
Washington - William Bolcom
West Virginia - George Crumb
Wisconsin - Kent Kennan
Wyoming -
Washington D.C. - John Phillip Sousa, Duke Ellington

Air · August 31, 2009, 09:37:07 PM

Virginia? - come on guys!!!

Time to find a Hawaiian composer on Google.

Szykneij · September 01, 2009, 02:22:58 AM

Quote from: RexRichter on August 31, 2009, 09:37:07 PM
Virginia? - come on guys!!!

Time to find a Hawaiian composer on Google.

Queen Lili'uokalani

I don't have this particular CD, but I do have another of her music.

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Name/Queen-of-Hawaii-Liliuokalani/Composer/128626-1

WI Dan · September 01, 2009, 01:16:34 PM

Another (unofficial) Update:

Alabama - Robert W. Smith
Alaska - Matthew Burtner, John Luther Adams
Arizona - Charles Mingus
Arkansas - Conlon Nancarrow
California - Henry Cowell, John Cage
Colorado - Harl McDonald
Connecticut - Charles Ives
Delaware - Libby Larsen
Florida - Ellen Taafe Zwilich
Georgia - Wallingford Riegger
Hawaii - Queen Lili'uokalani
Idaho - Ezra Pound, La Monte Young
Illinois - John Alden Carpenter, Miles Davis
Indiana - Ned Rorem
Iowa - Robert Suderburg
Kansas - Charlie Parker
Kentucky - John L. Becker
Louisiana - Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Maine - Walter Piston
Maryland - Phillip Glass, Frank Zappa
Massachusetts - Karl Henning, Leonard Bernstein, John Adams
Michigan - David Ott
Minnesota - Arthur Farwell, Ross Lee Finney
Mississippi - Milton Babbit
Missouri - Virgil Thomson
Montana - George Flynn
Nebraska - Howard Hanson
Nevada - Eric Whitacre
New Hampshire - Amy Beach
New Jersey - George Antheil
New Mexico - Nacio Herb Brown
New York - Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Steve Reich
North Carolina - Kenneth Frazelle, Thelonious Monk
North Dakota - P.D.Q. Bach
Ohio - Ruth Crawford
Oklahoma - Roy Harris
Oregon - Lou Silver Harrison
Pennsylvania - Samuel Barber
Rhode Island - George M. Cohan
South Carolina - Carlisle Floyd
South Dakota -
Tennessee - Edgar Meyer
Texas - Scott Joplin
Utah -
Vermont -
Virginia - Anthony Davis
Washington - William Bolcom
West Virginia - George Crumb
Wisconsin - Kent Kennan
Wyoming -
Washington D.C. - John Phillip Sousa, Duke Ellington

snyprrr · September 02, 2009, 05:43:15 PM

Sorry, I've been away ever since I posted this thread! Thanks to all for taking this seriously.

Utah???... Mormon's don't compose???

Wyoming???...only 3 people live there???
South Dakota???...see Wyoming???

Vermont???...WHAT?, there's no composer from Vermont??? Are they too busy making cheese???

ok...any Jewish composers from OUTSIDE of NYC???

ChamberNut · September 02, 2009, 06:28:45 PM

Quote from: Joe Barron on August 30, 2009, 07:06:11 AM
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.

If there weren't, Dvorak could have fit the slot.

Cato · September 03, 2009, 09:16:33 AM

OHIO has another nominee, recently deceased, whose works were played by major orchestras e.g. the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and the Saint Louis Symphony:

Donald Erb.

See:
http://www.presser.com/News/erbMemorial.cfm

Cato · September 03, 2009, 09:29:56 AM

Wyoming: George Hufsmith

Wrote a (cowboy?) opera called The Lynching At Sweetwater for the state's 1976 bicentennial celebration.

A certain David Tomatz wrote a small book in the 1970's on 90 (!) Wyoming composers!

But I cannot find it yet!

Sef · September 03, 2009, 11:33:44 AM

Maryland: Christopher Rouse

Szykneij · September 04, 2009, 04:02:06 AM

Quote from: ' on September 03, 2009, 03:24:05 PM
Surely they meant 90 Wyoming composters.'

Joe Barron · September 04, 2009, 08:06:40 AM

Quote from: snyprrr on September 02, 2009, 05:43:15 PM

ok...any Jewish composers from OUTSIDE of NYC???

Bernstein from Massachusetts and Babbitt from Ol' Miss.

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

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