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Blue Cathedral is the third studio album by Comets on Fire.It was released in 2004 on the Sub Pop label.. In an interview, Comets on Fire echoplex and electronics player Noel von Harmonson stated that the album cover art for Blue Cathedral was a photograph of an elephant that suffered from a disease causing a lack of pigment in some areas of its skin. [11]
Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962 [1]) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards , including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in ...
blue cathedral (1999) Celebration Fanfare (2003) City Scape (2002) Concerto 4-3 (2007) Concerto for Orchestra (2002) ... List of compositions by Jennifer Higdon.
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Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral, premièred in 2000, is a one-movement orchestral tone-poem and is ranked among the most widely performed works of the early 21st century. It was written in memory of her brother and features flute (her instrument) and clarinet (his instrument) in dialogue in their upper registers.
The 2009-2010 season included the Boston-area premiere of blue cathedral by Jennifer Higdon. The 2005-2006 concert series included a performance of Mahler's second symphony, and the 2015-2016 concluded with a performance of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy. The motto of the orchestra is Music for All.
Cold Mountain is an American opera in two acts and an epilogue, with music by Jennifer Higdon and the libretto by Gene Scheer, based on Charles Frazier's 1997 novel of the same name. The opera is a co-commission between Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, in collaboration with North Carolina Opera.
Higdon has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, International League of Women Composers, and others. Her 1996 work Shine was named Best Contemporary Piece by USA Today. [54]: 252–253 Of Higdon's many pieces, blue cathedral is most frequently performed.