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William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize , the National Medal of Arts, a [1] Grammy Award , the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America.
May 22, 2024 · William Bolcom, American composer, pianist, and teacher whose compositions encompass many idioms, from popular cabaret songs to more-traditional classical scores. Learn more about Bolcom’s life and work, including his inspirations and his various awards.
From ragtime ditties to grand opera, alumnus of the year William Bolcom has mixed pop tunes with classical music to become one of America's greatest living composers. By Jon Marmor | June 2003 issue. R obert and Virginia Bolcom weren’t sure what to do with their son William.
This is a list of compositions by American composer William Bolcom . By genre. Operas. McTeague (1991–92) A View from the Bridge (1997–98) A Wedding (2003) Dinner at Eight (2016) Symphonies. Symphony No. 1 (1957) Symphony No. 2 Oracles (1964) Symphony No. 3 Symphony for Chamber Orchestra (1979) Symphony No. 4 (1986) Symphony No. 5 (1989)
Aug 26, 2022 · It took the composer William Bolcom over 40 years to follow his first piano concerto with a second one. When Bolcom was putting the finishing touches on that first concerto, in 1976, he...
William Bolcom is widely recognized for his outstanding compositions of American music that encompass chamber, choral, and orchestral works as well as opera, musical theater, cabaret, and popular song.
National Medal of Arts, Pulitzer Prize, and Grammy Award-winner William Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer of chamber, operatic, vocal, choral, cabaret, ragtime, and symphonic...
William Bolcom. Named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America and honored with a Grammy Award [Best Classical Contemporary Composition] for his ground-breaking setting of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience [the album received a total of 4 Grammys], William Bolcom is a composer of cabaret songs, concertos, sonatas, operas ...
William Bolcom has always made his own way. Throughout his career, which has produced symphonies, operas, chamber pieces, and piano and vocal works, the Seattle-born, Michigan-based composer has often rejected the prevailing notions of what “serious” music should include.
William Elden Bolcom (26 May 1938 - ) by Kevin Nesko American composer, pianist, and teacher William Elden Bolcom was born in Seattle, Washington and entered the University of Washington at age 11. While there, he studied piano and composition, earning a degree in 1958.
