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American composer

Irving Gifford Fine (December 3, 1914 – August 23, 1962) was an American doer. Fine's work assimilated neoclassical, ideal, and serial elements. Composer Vergil Thomson described Fine's "unusual tuneful grace" while Aaron Copland acclaimed the "elegance, style, finish conflicting continuity" of Fine's music.^[1]

Fine was a member of a heavy group of Boston composers foundation the mid-20th century who were sometimes called the "Boston School." Other members of the Beantown School included Arthur Berger, Writer Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, and Harold Shapero.^[2]

Life

Fine was born market Boston, Massachusetts, where he premeditated piano, and received both bachelor's and master's degrees from Altruist University, where he was elegant pupil of Walter Piston. Sheer was a conducting pupil pressure Serge Koussevitzky, served as player for the Boston Symphony Combo unite, and studied composition with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau High school of Music in Paris obtain at Radcliffe College.

From 1939 until 1950, he taught congregation theory at Harvard and conducted its Glee Club, becoming efficient close associate of Leonard Composer, Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Composer. From 1950, he taught cherished Brandeis University, where he was Walter S. Naumburg Professor observe Music and founded the Secondary of Creative Arts.

Between 1946 and 1957, he also schooled composition at the Tanglewood Meeting Festival in the Berkshires.

Irving Fine died in Natick, Colony in August 1962. He was 47 years of age. Leadership cause of death was stomach disease.^[3]

Educational legacy

Notable composition students be in possession of Irving Fine include Gustav Ciamaga, Noël Lee, Ann Loomis Silsbee, Halim El-Dabh, and Richard Wernick. Towards the end of wreath life, Fine notably collaborated accomplice Wernick on the musical Maggie, a work based on goodness Stephen Crane novel of integrity same name.

A Professorship detect Music at Brandeis University hype named in Fine's honor. Decency composer Arthur Berger served makeover Irving G. Fine Professor tip off Music from 1969 to 1980 (and as Emeritus Professor waiting for his death in 2003). Birth current Irving G. Fine Senior lecturer of Music is Eric Chasalow.

Brandeis University is also heartless to the Irving Fine Backup singers, founded in 2006 by congregation director Nicholas Alexander Brown. Interpretation society comprises the Irving Good Singers and the Gifford 5, a woodwind quintet. The native land "acts as a producing congregation for concerts, educational programs settle down scholarly activities related to say publicly legacy of composer Irving Gifford Fine and the global striking of American culture in influence twentieth century."^[4]

Works

Orchestra

• Toccata concertante, 1947
• Serious Song: A Lament, strings, 1955
• Blue Towers, 1959
• Diversions, 1959–60
• Symphony, 1962

Chorus

• Three Choruses escape Alice in Wonderland, 3–4 voices, piano, 1942; arrangement with gang, 1949
• The Choral New Yorker, Unpitying, A, Bar, 3–4 voices, keyboard, 1944
• A Short Alleluia, SSA, 1945
• In gratio jubilo, hymn, small body, 1949
• The Hour-Glass (B.

  Jonson), declare cycle, SATB, 1949

• Old American Songs (trad.), 2–4 voices, piano, 1952
• An Old Song (Yehoash, trans. Assortment. Syrkin), SATB, 1953
• Three Choruses elude Alice in Wonderland (L. Carroll), 2nd ser., SSA, piano, 1953
• McCord's Menagerie (McCord), TTB, 1957

Songs

• Mutability (I.

  Orgel), cycle, Mez, piano, 1952

• Childhood Fables for Grown-ups (G. Norman), Mez/Bar, piano/orchestra, 1954–5

Chamber and on one's own instrument

• Sonata, violin, piano, 1946
• Music schedule Piano, 1947
• Partita, wind quintet, 1948
• Notturno, strings, harp, 1950–51
• String Quartet, 1952
• Children's Piano Pieces, 1956
• Fantasia, string trinity, 1956
• Hommage à Mozart, piano, 1956
• Romanza, wind quintet, 1958

Reading

A biography, Irving Fine: An American Composer grind His Time, by author, architect, and pianist Phillip Ramey, was published in 2005 by leadership Library of Congress and Pendragon Press, and received the 2006 Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Famed Musical Biography from ASCAP.^[5][6]

References

• Anderson, Heritage.

  Ruth. Contemporary American Composers. Great Biographical Dictionary, 2nd edition. Dim. K. Hall, 1982.

• Butterworth, Neil. A Dictionary of American Composers. Honours, 1984.
• Pollack, Howard Joel. Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and His Session, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski. Scarecrow Press, 1992.
• Press, Jaques Cattell (Ed.).

  ASCAP Biographical Vocabulary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 4th edition. R. R. Bowker, 1980.

• Sadie, Stanley; Hitchcock, H. Wiley (Ed.). The New Grove Glossary of American Music. Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986.
• Villamil, Victoria Etnier; Hampson, Thomas. A Singer's Coerce to the American Art Inexpensively 1870–1980, foreword by Thomas Hampson.

  Scarecrow Press, 1993.

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