BORN 21 APRIL
A prolific composer, Eleanor Daley has a remarkable gift for melody. Her works are most notable for their sensitive interweaving of text and music. She has over one hundred published choral compositions and is commissioned extensively throughout North America. Included in her unpublished choral works are dozens of anthems, twelve Missae Breves, three pageants, and hundreds of descants, introits, and psalm settings. Her compositions have been widely performed, recorded, and aired throughout North America, Great Britain, Europe, South Africa, and the Far East. Her works are published by eleven publishing houses in Canada, the United States and Great Britain, including Oxford University Press (US and UK), Alliance Music Publications Inc., Hinshaw Music, Rhythmic Trident Publishing, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, Santa Barbara Music Publishing Inc., Treble Clef Press and Walton Music.
Commissioned works for Canadian Choirs include the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Amadeus Choir, the Bach Children's Chorus, the Toronto Children's Chorus, the Amabile Youth Singers, St. Marys Children's Choir, the Cantabile Singers of Kingston, the Savridi Singers, the Vancouver Men's Chorus and the Victoria Scholars, as well as numerous other community and church choirs. Eleanor was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) to write a choral work for the 2008 Regional Conventions- the first Canadian composer to have received this honour. Other US commissions include the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, Florida; Texas Women's University Choir; the Alliance World Festival of Women's Singing in Salt Lake City, and the Texas Choral Directors Association. She has also written works for choirs in other states including New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Missouri. European commissions include the Norbusang Festival in Bodo, Norway, the Touch the Future Festival in Germany and Oxford University Press in Cambridge, England. Eleanor was invited to be the first Composer-in-Residence at the international choral festival, FESTIVAL 500, in July 2005, in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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TUI ST GEORGE TUCKER - USA
DIED 21 APRIL
Lorraine "Tui" St. George Tucker was an American microtonal composer and recorder player and instrument developer.
From 1941 to 1944, Tucker attended Occidental College, Los Angeles. She moved to New York in 1946 where she established herself as a virtuoso recorder player and composer. Tucker was noted for her use of baroque and folk influences alongside musical effects such as trills, natural sounds, and multiphonics. In later years she focused on microtonal, key-oriented compositions and made heavy use of alternate piano tunings.
Beginning in 1946, she made yearly summer retreats to Camp Catawba in North Carolina to visit her lifelong partner, poet and educator, Vera Lachmann. In 1985 Tucker settled permanently at Catawba where she lived until her death in April 2004.
Her works have been performed by such performers as the Kohon Quartet, pianists Grete Sultan and Loretta Goldberg, and recorder player Pete Rose.
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The Bullfinch - Sonata for S by Tui St George Tucker
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