Carl Zytowski

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Carl Byrd Zytowski (born July 17, 1921 in Saint Louis , Missouri , United States ; † November 11, 2018 ) was an American opera singer with a tenor voice , conductor , composer and music teacher .

Life

Carl Zytowski's father Dewey Carl Zytowski was active on the radio and as a singer. Carl Zytowski himself had piano, violin and clarinet lessons as a child. He sang in a high school choir, performed in a school musical, and sang in various church choirs. In 1941 he attended William Jennings Bryan University in Dayton , Tennessee . After graduating from high school, he joined the St. Louis Grand Opera Company for one season. Here he sang in the opera choir as second tenor and participated in performances with important singers of the time. In 1942 he was drafted into the United States Air Force . He served in the Chemical Warfare Service. In 1943 he was transferred to England. In his free time he was organist in a Protestant chapel. He also founded a vocal quartet that won an army competition for barbershop quartets. As winners, they went on tour with the eighth Air Force Band. In London, a program of the Armed Forces Network was broadcast on the BBC . After military service he studied singing at the St. Louis Institute of Music from 1945. Here he also had his first professional engagements as a singer. He attended an opera workshop with the English conductor Stanley Chapple (1900–1987). He sang the narrator on a production of The Rape of Lucretia . He also dealt with Benjamin Britten's early song cycles . After obtaining a Bachelor of Music in 1948, he went to the School of Music at the University of Washington for further studies . Stanley Chapple had meanwhile become director here. Zytowski took courses in singing, opera and composition. Zytowski was made aware of the establishment of a new professional opera school in London by Chapple. He went to London and studied acting and directing singing with Joan Cross . He then went back to Seattle and graduated with a Master of Arts . In his thesis he dealt with Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth . He created a chamber version of the opera, made an English translation, reduced the size of the orchestra and even sang the role of MacDuff at a performance. Zytowski has appeared in several local opera groups and has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony .

In 1951 he was appointed to the music faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara . He taught singing and conducting, but also ran the Men's Glee Club. In 1954 he was also temporarily head of the Women's Glee Club. He worked at the Music Academy of the West as an assistant to Lotte Lehmann and directed the UCSB Opera Theater. Between 1964 and 1995 he directed The Schubertians, a small ensemble of male singers at UCSB. In 1982 he took over the leadership of the Collegiate Chorale, the university's large mixed choir. With the university choirs, he performed in English, among others, Arthur Honegger's Le Roi David , Igor Stravinsky's psalm symphony and a number of oratorios by Georg Friedrich Handel . In addition, he led other choirs, conducted over eighty opera productions over the years and worked as a composer and arranger for his ensembles. From the 1960s he began a long-term cooperation between the university and the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra. In 1959 he was awarded the Harold J. Plous Memorial Award for "outstanding achievement in creative work or for creative contributions to the intellectual life of the university community". In 1990, Zytowski received the Marshall Bartholomew Award for significant contributions in the field of music for male choirs. From 1995 he was Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara UCSB.

Works (selection)

Church Operas

  • A medieval Triptych [A medieval triptych], cycle of three Church Operas [ Church operas ] OCLC 81686044
    • The play of Balaam and his Ass, a Church Opera in one act. Libretto: Carl Zytowski based on medieval mystery plays . The text is based on Num 22-23. The play is set on a hill in Moab during the time of King Balak . The roles are Balaak (tenor), Balaam [Balaam] ( bass ), Asinus ( baritone ), The Angelus ( countertenor )
    • The play of the Three Maries at the Tomb
    • The play of the Three Shepherds. First performance on November 13, 1982 at the National Convention of the National Opera at Lewis and Clark College in Portland .
  • Thomas of Canterbury. Church Opera inspired by Murder in the Cathedral by TS Eliot . First performed on June 6, 1981 at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara by UCSB. OCLC 83527122

Children's opera

Choral works

He has translated several operas and some art songs, and has written articles and book reviews for The Choral Journal .

literature

  • Carl Zytowski. In: Carl Gerbrandt: Sacred Music Drama: The Producer's Guide. 2nd Edition. Author House, 2006. ISBN 978-1-4520-3257-3 , pp. 345f
  • Patricia A Snapp: The church operas of Carl Zytowski. University of Northern Colorado 1996 OCLC 78060818

Recordings

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: Professor Emeritus Carl Zytowski's lasting impact on the UC Santa Barbara Department of Music , accessed December 4, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d Carl Zytowski. In: http://www.music.ucsb.edu . Department of Music - UC Santa Barbara, accessed January 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Carl Zytowski: Carl Zytowski - A Career In Music . In: Rodney Punt (Ed.): An Invitation to a Schubertiad . 2009, p. 40 ( snowcrest.net [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Dewey C Zytowski in the 1940 Census | Ancestry. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  5. ^ Bryan College Library: Commoner, 1941 . Bryan College, 1941 ( archive.org [accessed January 23, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Lehmann Foundation Newsletter, Summer 2001. (PDF) In: http://www.lottelehmannleague.org . Lotte Lehmann Foundation, 2001, accessed on January 23, 2018 .
  7. ^ The Schubertian Page. In: https://www.snowcrest.net . SnowCrest Inc, accessed January 22, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b c Carl Zytowski: History of the Department - The Music Department Through the Years. In: http://www.music.ucsb.edu . UCSB Department of Music, accessed January 23, 2018 .
  9. ↑ News from the campusses - Awards . In: University of California (Ed.): University Bulletin . tape 7 , no. 22 , June 22, 1959, pp. 192 (English, google.de ).
  10. ^ The Marshall Bartholomew Award. In: http://www.imci.us . Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, Inc., accessed January 23, 2018 .
  11. ^ Carl Gerbrandt: Sacred Music Drama: The Producer's Guide Second Edition . AuthorHouse, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4520-3257-3 ( google.de [accessed January 22, 2018]).
  12. ^ The Opera Journal . National Opera Association, 1980 ( google.de [accessed January 23, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Zytowski, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zytowski, Carl Byrd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer with a tenor voice, conductor, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Louis , Missouri , United States
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2018