Tui St. George Tucker

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Tui St. George Tucker

Lorraine "Tui" St. George Tucker (born November 25, 1924 in Fullerton , California , † April 21, 2004 in Boone , North Carolina ) was an American composer and recorder player .

Life

Tucker was born in Fullerton, Orange County, California and attended Eagle Rock High School in northeast Los Angeles , California. Her mother, who comes from New Zealand, named Lorraine "Tui" after a bird living in her home country. In 1941 Tui graduated from Eagle Rock High School. From 1941 to 1944 she attended Occidental College in Los Angeles. In 1946 she moved to New York City , where she worked as a composer, conductor and recorder player. Her works show techniques of microtonality , jazz influences and influences of early music. She designed special recorders with extra finger holes and her own fingerings, which made it possible to play quarter tones. Indian Summer: Three Microtonal Antiphones on Psalm Texts for two baritone voices and chamber ensemble e.g. B. combines the use of quarter tones with a Latin text.

From 1947 to 1970 she spent the summers as the musical director of a summer camp for boys, Camp Catawba , near Boone and Blowing Rock, North Carolina, on what is now the Blue Ridge Parkway . The pianist Grete Sultan also worked here as "Music Counselor". In addition to long stays in New York City, Tui St. George Tucker lived on the grounds of Camp Catawba, which she had inherited in 1985 from her partner Vera Lachmann , the founder of the camp. Here she died in 2004.

Her works have been performed by musicians such as Grete Sultan , Loretta Goldberg , Douglas Miller , Jens Barnieck , Pete Rose and the Kohon Quartet .

Discography

  • Indian Summer: Three Microtonal Antiphons on Psalm Texts. LP. Greenville, Maine: Opus One, [1984?].
  • String Quartet Number One. LP. Greenville, Maine: Opus One, [1986?].
  • Dearest of Jesus. CD. Harriman, New York: Spectrum, 1988. (Title of disc: Buxtehude, Moondog & Co., performed by Paul Jordan, Schuke organ.)
  • Second Piano Sonata, "The Peyote." CD. Greenville, Maine: Opus One, [1991?]. (Title of the CD: Soundbridge, performed by pianist Loretta Goldberg.)
  • The Music of Tui St. George Tucker (1998). Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Centaur.

literature

  • Jens Barnieck: “Music is my home - I live in it. The American composer Tui St. George Tucker ”in: VivaVoce No. 100, Fall 2015. Woman and Music - Internationaler Arbeitskreis eV Frankfurt / Main (article in German)
  • Jens Barnieck, Wheeler Sparks: Between two Worlds: A Time at Camp Catawba. in: REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Volume 26 Transcultural Spaces: Challenges in Urbanity, Ecology, and the Environment , eds. Stefan L. Brandt, Winfried Fluck , Frank Mehring, Narr Verlag Tübingen, 2010.
  • Moritz von Bredow: rebellious pianist . The life of Grete Sultan between Berlin and New York. Schott Music , Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-7957-0800-9 (biography with many details on Camp Catawba, Vera Lachmann and Tui St. George Tucker).
  • The Gods are also here. High Country Magazine, October / November 2007 issue, pp. 82–93.

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personal data
SURNAME Tucker, Tui St. George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tucker, Lorraine St. George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and recorder player
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Fullerton , California
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2004
Place of death Boone , North Carolina