music.wikisort.org - KomponistWebster A. Young ist ein US-amerikanischer Opern- und Ballettkomponist.
Young hatte Kompositionsunterricht bei Samuel Barber und Charles Jones. Er wurde in den 1980er Jahren als Komponist von zehn Balletten bekannt und gilt damit als bedeutendster amerikanischer Ballettkomponist dieser Zeit. In dem Dokumentarfilm Two for Ballet stellte der Ballett-Experte David Vaughan diese Ballette und Youngs Zusammenarbeit mit dem Choreographen Eric Hyrst vor.
Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre komponierte er fünf Opern, darunter zwei (The Sun Also Rises, 1996 und Madrid, 1998) nach Erzählungen von Ernest Hemingway. Außerdem komponierte Young u. a. eine Sinfonie (1982), ein Klavierkonzert, eine Streichersuite sowie Werke für Klavier, Violine und Gitarre solo. Seit 1998 ist er künstlerischer Leiter der Long Island Opera.
Werke
- Antigone Incidental Music
- Le Peintre de Matadors, Ballett
- Summer Ballet
- Album, Ballett
- Polonaise, Pas de Deux
- Two Ballet Scenes
- Vintage, Ballett
- Tango, Ballettsuite
- The Judgement of Paris, Ballett
- Waltzes, Ballett
- Air for Strings, Ballett
- The Vendor, Ballett
- The Wrong Party, Oper, 1994
- The Sun Also Rises, Oper, 1996
- Madrid, Oper, 1997
- Stocks, Bonds, and Doggerel, Oper, 2000
- As You Like It, Oper nach William Shakespeare, 2002
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Webster A. Young is a composer of symphonies, ballets and operas. He was the most prolific composer for ballet in the US in the 1980s, before Martins-Torke, working with Eric Hyrst, formerly of the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, New York City Ballet, and the Royal Ballet of England.[1] Young appears with Eric Hyrst in the film "Two for Ballet", available from Cinema Guild, NY.[2] "Two for Ballet" was seen on 63 PBS stations nationwide in 1992.[3] The Jerome Robbins Dance Collection at Lincoln Center, NY, has an extensive file on Eric Hyrst's career that also includes videos of the first three Hyrst-Young ballets.[4] Young became the artistic director of the Long Island Opera Company 1998–2003.[5] Young was the first composer in many decades to set Shakespeare's "As You Like It" to music as an opera in four acts. Soprano, tenor, and baritone operas from it are published at MusicNotes.com, and several performances are in videos at YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Youku, and Toudou.com [6] Now on his Opus 198. Among his most recent works are several pieces for unaccompanied cello.[7] Other recent works include 20 tangos[8] and 10 salsa pieces for orchestra, some also arranged for piano.[9] Opera arias and piano music published at MusicNotes.com [10] Young studied composition with Richard Swift, Andrew Frank, Giampaolo Bracali, and notably with Charles Jones - who was acquainted with Stravinsky and a close friend of Darius Milhaud.[11] Young is related through his grandmother, Seena Harbach Purdy, to Otto Harbach, the Broadway lyricist and playwright, who was his great uncle. Otto Harbach's oldest brother, Adolphe, Webster Young's great grandfather, was a band conductor. Young's paternal grandfather, Owen Young, was a semi professional watercolor landscape painter, of whose works a few hundred paintings are extant.[12] Webster Young is the author of three books: The Palaces of Music (2017), Music, Painting and Jung (2012), and The Little Flowers of the Desert Brothers (2017), all published at Amazon.com under his name.[13]
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