Robert Ward (composer)
Robert Ward (born September 13, 1917 in Cleveland , Ohio , † April 2, 2013 in Durham , North Carolina ) was an American composer .
Career
Ward studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers , then at the Juilliard School of Music with Frederick Jacobi and Albert Stoessel, and finally in Tanglewood with Aaron Copland . From 1946 to 1956 he taught at the Juilliard School and at Columbia University . Until 1967 he was an employee of the publishing house Galaxy Music Corporation , then President of the North Caroline School of Arts .
He composed a. a. seven operas, large and small choral works, five symphonies, an overture, a piano, a saxophone and a violin concerto and chamber music. For the opera The Crucible he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Music Critic's Citation in 1962 . He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters , of which he has been a member since 1967, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts .
Works
- Vocal works
- Concord hymn for mixed choir
- Consider Well God's Ways for mixed choir and bass soloist
- Earth Shall Be Fair for mixed choir, mixed choir and children's choir or solo soprano and orchestra
- I Hail This Land for mixed choir, band and piano
- Images of God
- In His Last Days Jesus Came to Jerusalem for mixed choir, soprano and organ
- Let Us Heed the Voice Within for mixed choir and organ
- Sacred Canticles for mixed choir, trumpet, percussion and keyboard
- Sweet Freedom's Song for mixed choir and piano
- That Wondrous Night of Christmas Eve for mixed choir
- When Christ Rode Into Jerusalem for mixed choir, soprano and organ
- with rue my heart is laden for mixed choir
- Would You Be Glad for mixed choir, children's choir and organ
- Arias for baritones
- Ballad from 'Pantaloon' for high voice
- Hymn to the Night for soprano
- Love's Seasons for tall voice and piano
- Sacred Songs for Pantheists for soprano and orchestra
- Hymn to the Night for soprano
- Operas
- Jonathan and the Gingery Snare for narrator and orchestra
- Abelard & Heloise , opera
- Claudia Legare , opera
- The Crucible , opera
- He Who Gets Slapped (Pantaloon) , opera
- Lady Kate , opera
- Roman Fever , opera
- Works for solo instruments, chamber music
- Bath County Rhapsody for string quartet and piano
- Lamentation and Scherzo for piano
- Celebrations of God in Nature for organ
- The Promised Land for Organ and Congregation
- Serenade for Mallarme for flute, viola, cello and piano
- Raleigh Divertimento for wind quintet
- Fantasia for Brass Choir and Tympani
- Appalachian Ditties and Dances for violin and piano
- Dialogues for violin, cello and piano
- Second Sonata for Violin and Piano
- Arioso for viola and piano
- Tarantelle for viola or cello and piano
- Arioso for cello and piano
- String Quartet No.1
- Echoes of America for clarinet, cello and piano trio
- Antiphony for wind instruments
- Fiesta Processional for wind instruments
- Four Abstractions for Band for wind instruments
- Jubilation, An Overture for Wind Instruments
- Night Fantasy for wind instruments
- Prairie Overture for wind instruments
- Orchestral works
- Concerto for Piano & Orchestra
- Concerto for Tenor Saxophone & Orchestra
- By the Way of Memories for orchestra
- Concerto for Violin & Orchestra
- Dialogues for violin, cello and orchestra or piano
- Euphony for orchestra
- Festive Ode for Orchestra (Orchestral Score);
- Hymn and Celebration for orchestra
- Invocation and Toccata for orchestra
- Symphony No.1
- Symphony No.2
- Symphony No.3
- Symphony No.4
- Fifth Symphony: Canticles of America
swell
- EC Schirmer Music Company - Robert Ward
- Alfred Baumgärtner Propylaea World of Music. The Composers , Volume 5, 1989, ISBN 3549078358 , pp. 495-96
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ward, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd April 2013 |
| Place of death | Durham, North Carolina |