Stanley Walden

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Stanley Walden (born December 2, 1932 in New York City ) is an American composer.

Walden attended Cunningam Junior High School and James Madison High School and studied modern dance with Merce Cunningham from 1950 to 1953 . He then attended New York University and Queens College and studied clarinet with David Weber and composition with Ben Weber . From 1953 to 1955 and after his service with the US Army as principal clarinetist of the 7th Army Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart (1955–57) he worked until 1960 as a répétiteur for choreographers such as Martha Graham , José Limón , Jerome Robbins and Daniel Nagrin .

From 1957 to 1970 Walden lived as a clarinetist in New York. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and as a bass clarinetist with the New York Woodwind Quintet and was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble , the Gramercy Chamber Ensemble , the Penn Contemporary Players and the Group for Contemporary Music . In 1969 he founded with Peter Schickele and Robert Dennis the composition and performance trio The Open Window , which as Off-Broadway resulting -Stück production Oh! Calcutta! ran on Broadway for thirteen years from 1973 .

In 1970 he met George Tabori . In collaboration with him, more than 50 theater productions were created, including Pinkville (New York 1970, Berlin 1971), Sigmunds Freude (Bremen 1975), The Downfall of the Titanic and My Mother's Courage (Munich 1980–81), Jubiläum and Peepshow (Bochum 1983– 84). He then went to Vienna with Tabori and Claus Peymann , where Mein Kampf was performed in 1987 and The Goldberg Variations in 1991 at the Vienna Burgtheater's academy theater. In Tabori's own theater, Der Kreis , they worked on Masada , Lear's Shadow and For the Second Time . Productions such as The Brecht Act (1999) and The Earthquake Concerto (2002) were created at the Berliner Ensemble .

In addition, Walden also composed his own stage works such as the jazz opera Dr. Faustus Lights The Lights (premiere Cologne 1983), the opera Liebster Vater (premiere Bremen 1987) and Bach's last opera (commissioned by Danske Oper , libretto Jess Ornsbro , premiere Erfurt 2002) or the musicals Back Country (1979), clear the way! (1989), Miami Lights (1990) and Café Mitte (1997). In addition, he has performed with numerous chamber music works, songs and some orchestral works such as Circus (1969) and Invisible Cities , a commissioned composition for the Philadelphia Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf (1986), among composed film scores including David Newman's La fille d'Amérique (1977) , Vadim Glowna's Desperado City (1981) and Tabori's Frohes Fest (1981).

In 1991 he founded the musical / show course at the Berlin University of the Arts . With his wife Barbara Walden he published the book Life Upon The Wicked Stage in 1998 , which has developed into a standard work for training as a musical actor. After resigning from his professorship at the HdK in 2000, he gave workshops with her there in 2001, at the Folkwang School in Essen and at the Munich Theater Institute. He has lived in Palm Springs since 2007. In 2014 he directed the autobiographical film CHUTZPAH! With Tom Gass . .

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SURNAME Walden, Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City