Earl Kim
Earl Kim (born January 6, 1920 in Dinuba , † November 19, 1998 in Cambridge / Massachusetts ) was an American composer and music teacher.
The son of Korean immigrants studied composition and music theory with Arnold Schoenberg at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1941–41 . With Ernest Bloch and Roger Sessions he continued his education at the University of California, Berkeley , which he completed in 1952 with a master's degree. From 1952 to 1967 he taught at Princeton University , from 1971 to 1990 at Harvard University . He also worked as composer in residence at various music centers and universities . His students included u. a. Peter Maxwell Davies , Harrison Birtwistle and Bernard Rands .
Kim's vocal works based on texts by important writers such as Charles Baudelaire , Arthur Rimbaud , Rainer Maria Rilke and Anne Sexton and his stage works based on Samuel Beckett received great recognition . The best known of his instrumental works is the Violin Concerto, which he composed in 1979 and dedicated to Itzhak Perlman .
Works
- The Road , song cycle for baritone and piano
- Sonata for violin and piano
- Sonata for cello and piano
- Two Bagatelles for piano (1948–50)
- Four Bagatelles for piano (1950)
- Movement , string quartet (1952)
- Four Letters for baritone and piano (1954) (Text: Frank Horne )
- Letters Found Near a Suicide for soprano or baritone and piano (1954) (Text: Frank Horne)
- Dialogues for piano and orchestra (1959)
- Exercises en route , stage work for soprano, instruments, actors, dancers and film (1961–70) (based on Samuel Beckett)
- Narratives for speakers, actors, instruments, TV and light (1973–78) (Text: Samuel Beckett)
- Violin Concerto (1979)
- Caprices for violin (1980)
- Now and Then for soprano, flute, viola and harp (1981)
- Where Grief Slumbers for soprano, harp and string orchestra (1989) (Texts: Guillaume Apollinaire , Arthur Rimbaud)
- Footfalls , opera in one act (1983) (Text: Samuel Beckett)
- Cornet: A Tale of Love and Death for narrator and orchestra (1983) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
- Scenes From Childhood [August 1945] , Wind Quintet (1984)
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Scenes From a Movie for soprano, baritone, violin, cello and piano (1986–88) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
- The 7th Dream (1986)
- The 11th Dream (1988)
- Three Poems in French for soprano and string quartet (1989) (Text: Paul Verlaine , Charles Baudelaire)
- Four Lines from Mallarmé for voice, flute, vibraphone and four percussionists (1989)
- Some Thoughts on Keats and Coleridge for choir (1990)
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Scenes from a Movie for baritone, choir, harp and string orchestra (1991) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
- The 26th Dream (1991)
- Dear Linda for female voice, flute, cello, marimba, piano and percussion (1992) (Text: Anne Sexton)
- The White Hour for chamber orchestra, (1998)
swell
- Theodore Presser Company - Earl Kim
- Naxos - Earl Kim
- Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music - Earl Kim
- The Harvard University Gazette - Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Memorial Minute - Earl Kim
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SURNAME | Kim, Earl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and music teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dinuba |
DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1998 |
Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts |