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Ward earned a Bronze Star for meritorious service in the Aleutian Islands.During his military service Ward managed to compose two serious orchestral compositions, Adagio and Allegro, first performed in New York in 1944, and Jubilation: An Overture, which was written mostly on Okinawa, Japan, in 1945, and was premiered at Carnegie Hall by the National Orchestral Association the following spring.
The Crucible is a 1961 English language opera written by Robert Ward based on the 1953 play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. It won both the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Music Critics Circle Citation. The libretto was lightly adapted from Miller's text by Bernard Stambler.
Overture to La Belle et la Bête for string orchestra and piano (1994, arr. by Michael Riesman) Life: A Journey Through Time in seven sections for orchestra (2006, orch. by Michael Riesman, from The Secret Agent , Les Enfants Terribles , Dracula and other works, for the visuals by Frans Lanting )
He had begun in 1935 with a score for Paul Czinner's Escape Me Never, and his later cinema scores included his first Shakespeare film, As You Like It (1936) which starred Laurence Olivier. [1] When Olivier was planning his film of Henry V his co-producer, Dallas Bower , suggested that Walton should write the music, and Olivier agreed. [ 2 ]
To wedded love the song shall flow, ode for the King's Birthday, 1764 [Ov. pub. as Overture No. 10 in 12 Overtures, 1770] Sacred to thee, O commerce, ode for New Year's Day, 1765 [Ov. pub. as Overture No. 7 in 12 Overtures, 1770 , with music from 1758 Birthday ode]
Composed 1826. The overture to Berlioz's first attempt at opera, which was never staged. The overture was first performed in the concert hall of the Paris Conservatoire as part of an all Berlioz concert on 26 May 1828. In his study on the composer, Jacques Barzun describes the work as "a genuine tour de force for a young dramatic musician ...
The third-quarter pass secured the first Titans touchdown of the day. The Vikings blitzed five pass rushers on third-and-10. But Tennessee's offensive line stood its ground to buy Levis time as he ...
The Overture in A minor, JS 144, is a single-movement work for orchestra written in 1902 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece premiered in Helsinki on 8 March 1902, the with Sibelius conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Society .