Ronald Senator

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Ronald Senator ( April 17, 1926 , † April 30, 2015 in Yonkers , New York ) was a British composer and music teacher.

Senator studied with Egon Wellesz in Oxford . He has worked as a music professor at the University of London and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has held visiting professorships in the USA, Canada and Australia. He was also a founding member of the Montserrat Composers 'Association , founding director of the National Association of Music Theater, and a board member of the Composers' Guild .

In addition to several musicals and operas, Senator has composed oratorios and cantatas, chamber music and orchestral works. His best known work is the Holocaust Requiem , also known as the Kaddish for Terezin . The composition, based on poems by children from the Theresienstadt concentration camp, premiered in 1986 in Canterbury Cathedral under the auspices of the United Nations , the B'nai B'rith , the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the International Council of Christians and Jews . The performance attracted worldwide attention and was broadcast on radio and television. After the New York premiere in 1990, the work was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize . The Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church appeared at the Moscow premiere.

Senator published the memories of his wife Dita, a survivor of Auschwitz who died of cancer in 1981, in the form of an exchange of letters with her under the title Requiem Letters .

Senator and his second wife, pianist Miriam Brickman, died from injuries sustained in a fire in their home.

Works

  • Holocaust Requiem for Cantor, Choir and Orchestra
  • Insect Play , opera (libretto by Ursula Vaughan Williams )
  • The Wolf of Gubbio , opera
  • Sonata for piano
  • Spring Changes for piano
  • Mobiles for piano
  • Seaside Holiday for piano
  • Don Quixote for piano
  • The Toy Box for piano
  • Trotsky in New York , Musical (with Anthony Burgess )
  • Cabaret
  • A Poet to His Beloved
  • Greenwood and Paradise
  • Sun's in the East
  • Polish Suite for violin, viola or cello
  • Tarantella for flute solo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thane Grauel, Jane Lerner: Couple killed in fire at noted composer's Yonkers home. Report on lohud.com dated April 30, 2015 (accessed April 30, 2015).
  2. ^ Famed Composer, Wife Killed In Yonkers House Fire. Announcement on CBS dated April 30, 2015 (accessed April 30, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Senator, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1926
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2015
Place of death Yonkers , New York