Webster A. Young

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Webster A. Young is an American opera and ballet composer .

Young took composition lessons from Samuel Barber and Charles Jones . He became known in the 1980s as the composer of ten ballets, making him the most important American ballet composer of the time. Ballet expert David Vaughan introduced these ballets and Young's collaboration with choreographer Eric Hyrst in the documentary Two for Ballet .

Since the early 1990s he has composed five operas, including two ( The Sun Also Rises , 1996 and Madrid , 1998) based on stories by Ernest Hemingway . In addition, Young a. a. a symphony (1982), a piano concerto, a string suite and works for piano, violin and solo guitar. Since 1998 he has been artistic director of the Long Island Opera .

Works

  • Antigone Incidental Music
  • Le Peintre de Matadors , ballet
  • Summer Ballet
  • Album , ballet
  • Polonaise , pas de deux
  • Two ballet scenes
  • Vintage , ballet
  • Tango , ballet suite
  • The Judgment of Paris , ballet
  • Waltzes , ballet
  • Air for strings , ballet
  • The Vendor , ballet
  • The Wrong Party , Opera, 1994
  • The Sun Also Rises , Opera, 1996
  • Madrid , Opera, 1997
  • Stocks, Bonds, and Doggerel , Oper, 2000
  • As You Like It , opera based on William Shakespeare , 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Young, Webster A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century