Douglas Leedy
Douglas Leedy (born March 3, 1938 in Portland , Oregon - † March 28, 2015 ) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, harpsichordist, singer and music teacher.
Life
Leedy was a student of Karl Kohn at Pomona College and attended a composition seminar with La Monte Young and Terry Riley at the University of California, Berkeley . He then studied South Indian music with KV Narayanaswamy and North Indian vocal music with Pandit Pran Nath . He became the first musical director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra and, as director of the Portland Handel Festival 1985, conducted the complete performances of Handel's oratorios Jephta and Theodora on period musical instruments.
Leedy worked as a music teacher at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Centro Simon Bolivar in Caracas and at Reed College . At UCLA, he founded the electronic music studio, where he some of the earliest works for the Buchla- and the Moog synthesizer created in albums length, including the triple album Entropical Paradise , from the excerpts in Glenn Gould's soundtrack album to the film Slaughterhouse Five were taken .
In his compositions Leedy turned to atonal, but never strictly serial beginnings to a more melodic and modal music. He worked with old sound systems, suggested reconstructions of ancient Greek music and composed music for the poems of Homer , Sappho , Pindar and the tragedy The Persians of Aeschylus in accordance with his historical-theoretical research .
Web links
- Oregon Composers Watch - Douglas Leedy ( Memento from February 20, 2018 on the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leedy, Douglas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer, conductor, horn player, harpsichordist, singer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portland , Oregon |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2015 |