DEBORAH J. ANDERSON - USA
BORN 10 DECEMBER
Deborah J. Anderson is an american composer who grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and began composing at the piano at age 6. As a teenager she continued piano studies as well as voice. In college she majored in languages, later serving in the Peace Corps (Tunisia) where she taught English and studied the Arabic ‘oud and popular Arabic songs. Later she fulfilled a life-long dream of learning to play the English Renaissance lute. After earning a master’s degree in French (University of Washington, Seattle), she taught ESL and French on the college level for a number of years, and from 2000 to 2011 sang in the Pacific Lutheran University Choral Union. She enjoys her four adult children, the arts, travel and gourmet cooking. Since 2014 she has served on the Board of Directors of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra.
Deborah’s compositions range in setting from solo voice and choir to instrumental ensembles, solo works, duets, trios, chamber works, brass ensemble, and symphonic band with videography. She especially enjoys the challenges of composing for unusual settings. For example, a recent composition for harp, cello and narrator (Solar Flare Enigma) is based on a painting which is displayed during local performances. A new commission (opus 87) will feature clarinet, double bass and soprano voice. Deborah composes intuitively rather than intellectually, and endeavors to engage the musicians as well as the audience in a stimulating flow of moods and experiences. Her compositions are performed world-wide.
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States of Mind by Deborah J Anderson
LOUISE LINCOLN - USA
BORN 10 DECEMBER
BORN 10 DECEMBER
Louise Lincoln Kerr was an American musician, composer, and philanthropist from Ohio. She co-founded the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1944 and the Phoenix Symphony in 1947. Kerr was also a benefactor to the School of Music at Arizona State University. She was inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame in 2004.
Louise Lincoln was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 4, 1892. Her father, John C. Lincoln, was a successful engineer who founded Lincoln Electric. Kerr's mother Myrtie was a musician and taught Louise how to play the piano and viola. Lincoln furthered her skills under Sol Marcosson, a concertmaster of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra (CSO). She attended Barnard College in New York City, an institution with strong ties to Columbia University. Columbia professors David Gregory Mason, Christian Timmner, and Cornelius Rybnor taught Kerr viola and music composition. Lincoln won a pair of awards for her vocal compositions while at the college. She also studied for a time with Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev.
She composed more than 100 works including: symphonic tone poems, works for chamber orchestra, a violin concerto, numerous piano pieces, vocal pieces, string quartets, piano quartets and quintets, ballets and incidental music, and numerous duos for piano and other instruments. She was often called “The Grand Lady of Arizona Music,” and was inducted into the Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame in 2004.
Before her death in 1977, she willed two acres and the buildings to Arizona State University’s College of Fine Arts. Since October 1981, the Kerr Cultural Center has been managed by ASU Gammage. On April 14, 2010 the ASU Kerr Cultural Center was officially entered into the National Register of Historic Places.
Source: Wikipedia and Hearing the Century
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String Quartet in A Major by Louise Lincoln
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