Mira J. Spector

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Mira Josefowitz Spektor (* 1928 in Berlin ) is an American composer .

Life

Mira Josefowitz was born in Berlin as the daughter of a Russian-Lithuanian-Jewish family who had fled the pogroms. During the Nazi era , the family had to emigrate again and lived until 1939 a. a. in Paris. Via Switzerland, Italy and Portugal, the SS Washington made it to the USA in 1940. Mira Josefowitz attended Sarah Lawrence College and studied at the Mannes School and the Juilliard School of Music . After marrying Eryk Spektor in 1950, she called herself Mira J. Spektor. In 1975 she founded The Aviva Players , an ensemble dedicated to performing vocal and chamber music by female composers of the twelfth to twenty-first centuries. She is also a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the League of Professional Theater Women .

Create

In addition to operas and musicals, Spektor composed film and television music, vocal works and chamber music. Housewives' Cantata , a "feminist musical" with numbers such as Dirty Dish Rag , Apartment Lament and Adultery Waltz , was created in the 1970s . a. produced by Cheryl Crawford , turned into an off-Broadway hit. Her opera Lady of the Castle , a drama about life after the Holocaust, has been performed in New York, Berlin and London. Spektor has received several awards from Meet the Composers .

Works

  • Lady of the Castle , opera based on a play by Lea Goldberg
  • Passion of Lizzie Borden , short opera based on poems by Ruth Whitman
  • Mary Shelley - Scenes from her Life , opera based on a libretto by Colette Inez
  • Casino , mini-opera based on your own texts
  • Ladies of Romance , mini-opera based on poems by June Siegel
  • The Housewives' Cantata , musical based on texts by June Siegel
  • Give Me Time , short musical based on texts by June Siegel
  • Two Microbes from Mars , science fiction short musical
  • Three Songs for Baritone based on texts by Colette Inez, Phyllis McGinley and Mira J. Spektor
  • Indian Serenade for tenor and piano based on Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Two Songs on Poems by Lilly Nussbaum for soprano and piano
  • Two Bedtime Songs
  • Two Songs on Poems by William Dickey
  • Trois Chansons Francaise - Three French Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano, texts by Anna de Noailles , Rutebeuf and Mira J. Spektor
  • Drei Neue Lieder - Three German Songs based on texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Three Cabaret Songs
  • Four Songs on Poems by Ruth Whitman for medium voice, flute or violin and cello
  • Love is More Thicker Than Forget for three-part female choir, violin and piano based on EE Cummings
  • Voice in the Wind , vocalise for mezzo-soprano and cello or tape
  • Magen Yerushalaim for two-part children's choir
  • Summer & Winter Songs for mezzo-soprano and harp or piano based on your own texts
  • Provincetown Suite for Flute, Violin and Piano
  • Trio: Voices for violin, clarinet and cello
  • Inbal's Cello Song for Cello and Piano
  • Film music for Art in Its Soul
  • Soundtrack for Serious Comics
  • Film music for Lahav Hatzui
  • Film music for Death Strip
  • Music for the play Galina lives by Bernice Lee

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Inside Story: Mira Spektor and Summer & Winter Songs. In: Navona Records. July 25, 2019 .;
  2. ↑ a b c d A Note from the Composer, Mira J. Spektor. In: What Women Want Networking. November 27, 2017 .;
  3. ↑ Generation Gap Closed By Music. In: Naugatuck Daily News. November 23, 1970 .;
  4. ^ Howard Thompson: Guide. In: The New York Times . April 2nd 1979 .;
  5. ^ Mira J. Spektor: The Housewives' Cantata. In: New York Women Composers.
  6. ^ Mira J. Spektor's "Lady of the Castle" Coming to Opera America and Scandinavia House. In: Broadway World. September 14, 2017 .;
personal data
SURNAME Spektor, Mira J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Josefowitz Spektor, Mira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin