Seymour Barab
Seymour Barab (born January 9, 1921 in Chicago - † June 28, 2014 in New York City ) was an American musician ( cello , viola da gamba ) and composer .
Live and act
Barab learned the organ as a child and was a church organist at the age of 13; he played the cello in the high school orchestra. Early in his career he performed with the Indianapolis and San Francisco Symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra , the CBS Symphony Orchestra and the Galimir Quarte. During the Second World War he did his military service a. a. in Paris from; During this time he composed numerous songs. In the post-war period he worked in the field of contemporary music a. a. with the New Music Quartet in Chicago. In New York he founded the Composer's Quartet with Matthew Raimondi, Anahid Ajemian and Bernard Zaslav . He was also a viola da gamba player in the formation New York Pro Musica , which interpreted baroque and renaissance music.
Barab wrote the opera Little Red Riding Hood , which was the first American opera to be performed in China. His opera Philip Marshall (based on Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot ) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize . His other works include The Toy Shop, The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Cosmos Cantata , based on a text by Kurt Vonnegut . He has also written several children's operas, including adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood , Cinderella ( Cinderella ) and Snow White ( Snow White ), and a Christmas opera , Father of the Child . Barab has taught at Rutgers University , Black Mountain College, and the New England Conservatory of Music . In 1998 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Opera Association .
In the course of his career, Barab also played with jazz musicians such as Charlie Parker and Stan Getz at the Birdland jazz club in New York . In the 1970s and 1980s, Barab worked as a studio musician on countless recordings, including a. for Elvis Presley , Frank Sinatra or John Lennon . In the field of jazz he was involved in 86 recording sessions between 1956 and 2001. a. with Jack Nimitz , Chet Baker , Charles Mingus ( Mingus Dynasty , 1959), Morgana King , Astrud Gilberto . Phil Woods , Bill Evans , Quincy Jones , Kenny Burrell , Hubert Laws , Grant Green , Bobby Hutcherson , Marlena Shaw , Eumir Deodato ( Prelude ), Lou Donaldson , Eric Gale , Bob James , George Benson , Bob Dorough , Lena Horne , Don Sebesky , Grover Washington, Jr. , Idris Muhammad , Hank Crawford , Dave Matthews , Lonnie Liston Smith , Horace Silver , George Shearing , Cleo Laine, and John Pizzarelli .
Works (selection)
- Suite for trumpet, saxophone & piano
- Cosmos Cantata, for soprano, tenor, baritone & orchestra
- Dances for oboe & strings
- Moments Macabres, for tenor & orchestra
- One Perfect Rose, for voice & piano
- Parodies: Voice Sheet Music for High Voice and Piano Opera
Discographic notes
- Seymour Barab / M. William Karl: Quartet for Saxophones / Three
Web links
- Web presence
- Obituary in The New York Times
- Seymour Barab at Allmusic (English)
- Seymour Barab at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Obituary for Local 802
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 21, 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barab, Seymour |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician, composer, and music educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 2014 |
| Place of death | New York City |