Dwight Winenger

Dwight Winenger (born June 6, 1936 in Argos / Indiana ) is an American composer, painter and sculptor.

Winenger initially worked as a projectionist. He studied at the Famous Artists Schools in Westport, Connecticut and until 1959 at Indiana State Teachers College . He completed postgraduate studies at Indiana State University (1970) and Montana State University (1986–90). His main teachers were Arthur D. Hill and Joseph Gremelspacher (music) and Elmer J. Porter (art).

He taught at Indiana State University and Wiley High School in Terre Haute, Indiana, and then worked for the Creative Designs Advertising Art Studio in Indiana. He then returned to teaching at Tyner High School and became supervisor of arts classes at Plymouth Community Schools and a member of the Governor's Committee for the Fine Arts in Indiana. In the 1960s he taught in Colorado and Montana and was president of the arts department at CM Russell High School in Great Falls for several years .

Winenger has been a composer and painter since his student days. In addition to chamber music works for friends, he created his Breeze for Band , the Symphonic Wind Ensemble of the University of Indiana. In the 1960s he composed a. a. two symphonies and was awarded the Olivet National Set Design Award . In 1973 he retired from teaching and went first to New York and later to California. Here he was admitted to the Community College System as a teacher of fine arts and applied technology , taught at the College of the Desert Symphony, and conducted the Chamber Orchestra of the Desert .

At the suggestion of Arnaldo Trujillo and other musicians, he founded the Minuscule University Press, Inc. , where he published the quarterly magazine Living Music for new music. The Living Music Foundation emerged from Minuscule University Press in 1995 , and Winenger directed it until 2000. He then continued to work as editor of Living Music .

Works

• Breeze for Band , 1957
• Double Bass Trio , 1957, 1992
• Second Psalm for soprano and piano, 1966, 1999
• Concerto For Double Bass , 1981
• "A Small Symphony For Small Orchestra" Symphony No. 3 , 1982
• In Search Of the Natural Man for chamber orchestra (with solo improvisations), 1984
• Intervallic Etude for eight flutes or flute choir, 1984
• "The Pantagruelian Annals" A good-humored history of music in the Western World for strings and piano, 1984
• Phonistic Numerals - String Quartet No. 2, in the Chromatic Key of B , 1984, 1997
• "Narrowing Circles" Symphony No. 4 , 1985
• Modal Disentanglements on Popular Tunes for piano, or two trumpets and bass trombone or clarinet, oboe and bassoon
• Not Vivaldi for two violins, small orchestra and harpsichord (as "Vivaldi Sandwich" with movements from Vivaldi's C minor Violin Concerto), 1988
• The Raven, a reading for trombone , 1990
• "Recurrent Ordinals" Nightmare for assorted instruments and alarm clock , 1990
• Somber Cotillion (The Diplomacy of Terror) for concert band, 2002
• Structural Variations On Two Obscure Themes for cello solo

Web link

• Homepage of Dwight Winenger

source

• Vox Novus - Dwight Winenger