Jere Hutcheson

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Jere Hutcheson (* 1938 in Marietta / Georgia ) is an American composer and music teacher.

Hutcheson studied at Stetson University with Frances Buxton , Louisiana State University with Helen Gunderson , Michigan State University with H. Owen Reed and at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood with Gunther Schuller and Ernst Krenek . Since 1965 he has taught composition at Michigan State University .

He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation , the Berkshire Music Center, and the Vermont Composers Conference, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts , Michigan Council for the Arts, and Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music . In 1976 the National Music Teachers Association named him Distinguished Composer of the Year . In addition to more than 100 compositions, Hutcheson a. a. the two-part textbook Musical Form and Analysis: A Programmed Course (1972).

Works

  • Sonata for piano, 1962
  • Sonata for Violoncello and Piano , 1963
  • Neutrons , 1964
  • Eldorado for choir, 1964
  • hist whist for choir, 1965
  • Electrons for piano, 1965
  • Sonata for Bassoon and Piano , 1965
  • Symphony in Two Movements , 1966
  • String Quartet , 1967
  • Designs for Fourteen for eleven wind instruments and three percussionists, 1968
  • SABRONORBAS for choir, 1969
  • About for four trumpets and four trombones, 1971
  • Wonder Music I for violin and piano, 1971
  • Sensations for Symphonic Band and Audience , 1971
  • Passacaglia for wind ensemble, 1972
  • Night Gallery for four trombones, 1972
  • Three Things for Dr. Seuss for harp and percussion, 1972
  • Lament for a Lost Child for choir, 1972, 2000
  • Transitions , 1973
  • GOD for choir, 1973
  • Rondo Brillante for clarinet, violin and piano, 1973
  • Three Pictures of Satan for Trumpet and Organ, 1973
  • Shadows of Floating Life for soprano and chamber ensemble, 1974
  • Fantaisie-Impromptu for piano, 1974
  • PASSING, PASSING, PASSING for soprano and chamber ensemble, 1975
  • Wonder Music III for flute and piano, 1975
  • Wonder Music IV for trombone and piano, 1976
  • Mysterious Voices of the Afterworld for choir, 1976
  • Cosmic Suite for piano, 1976
  • Nocturnes of the Inferno for clarinet, violin and piano, 1976
  • Earth Gods Symphony for wind ensemble, 1976
  • Wonder Music V for horn and piano, 1977
  • Chromophonic Sketches for piano, 1978
  • Will-O-The-Wisps for violin solo, 1978
  • Duo Sonata for clarinet and percussion, 1978
  • Chromophonic Images for wind ensemble, 1978
  • The Song Book for tenor and flute, 1979
  • Concerto for Piano & Wind Orchestra , 1981
  • Ritual and Dance for choir, 1983
  • Interplay for alto saxophone and stick playing, 1984
  • Metaphors , 1985
  • Five French Portraits ( Georges Seurat , Henri Rousseau , Georges Braque , Henri Matisse , Fernand Léger ), 1986
  • Concerto for Violin & Small Orchestra , 1987
  • Duo Concertante for violin and piano, 1987
  • Long Live the Composer , Chamber Opera, 1990
  • Bonjour, Marie for choir, 1993
  • Dance of Time Symphony , 1994
  • Caricatures ( Marcel Marceau , Edgar Allan Poe , Emma Thompson , Camille Saint-Saëns , Vincent van Gogh , Erik Satie , Dorothy Parker , Andy Warhol , Jackson Pollock ), 1996
  • Ship of Time for Carillon, 1996
  • More Caricatures ( John Cage , Romare Beardon , Carol Channing , Georgia O'Keeffe , Franz Kafka , Virginia Woolf , Woody Allen , Harry Houdini , Franz Liszt ), 1999
  • Mrs. Dalloway's Party for mezzo-soprano and piano, 1999
  • Glosses, Annotations, and an Exegesis for violin or cello and piano, 1999
  • Three Visions , 2000
  • Three Notions for saxophone quartet, 2000
  • Spartan Spirit for wind ensemble, 2001
  • Concerto for Solo Percussion & Wind Symphony , 2001
  • Quirky Etudes for piano, 2001
  • Divertimento for Flute Solo, Winds, & Percussion , 2002
  • Concerto for Saxophone & Wind Symphony , 2003
  • Caricatures III ( Salvador Dali , Sammy Davis junior , Gertrude Stein , Stephen King , Marcel Duchamp , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Kurt Vonnegut , Alexander Calder , Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow ), 2000
  • A Spartan's Dream for wind ensemble, 2003
  • Petals Over Time for mezzo-soprano and piano, 2003
  • Trois Pièces for tuba and piano, 2003
  • Gradus ad Parnassum - Caricatures IV ( Henry Purcell , Johann Sebastian Bach , Domenico Scarlatti , Ludwig van Beethoven , Carl Czerny , Frédéric Chopin , Claude Debussy , Béla Bartók , Olivier Messiaen ), 2003
  • Desert Flower for wind ensemble, 2004
  • Taj Mahal , 2004
  • Mist of Tears for choir, 2004
  • Twelve Introspections for oboe solo, 2004
  • Nuclear Conversion for solo percussion, 2005
  • A Good Old-Fashioned Trio , piano trio, 2005
  • Place Your Bets for wind quintet, 2005
  • Reflections - Caricatures V ( Giovanni Gabrieli , Georg Friedrich Händel , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Gioacchino Rossini , Louis Moreau Gottschalk , Maurice Ravel , Aaron Copland , Duke Ellington , György Ligeti ), 2006
  • Sunrise, Sunset for wind ensemble, 2006
  • Earth Song Concerto for Oboe & Wind Symphony , 2006
  • Games, Concerto for Clarinet & Wind Symphony , 2006
  • Concertino , 2006
  • The Ride for choir, 2006
  • The Silver Sword - An Ancient Fairy Tale , 2007
  • Variations and Excursions for string trio, 2007
  • Wild Nights for bassoon and mixed sextet, 2007
  • The Four Temperaments , 2008
  • Symphonic Études for Wind Ensemble , 2009
  • Reveries , 2010
  • New England in the Summer , 2011

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SURNAME Hutcheson, Jere
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Marietta , Georgia