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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 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]
blue cathedral (1999) Celebration Fanfare (2003) City Scape (2002) Concerto 4-3 (2007) Concerto for Orchestra (2002) Dance Card (2015) Dooryard Bloom (2004) Duo Duel (Double Percussion Concerto) (2020) Fanfare Ritmico (1999) Harp Concerto (2018) Light (2006) The Light That We Can Hear (Flute Concerto) (2022) Loco (2004) Low Brass Concerto (2017 ...
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 Violin Concerto has been praised by music critics. Reviewing the New York City premiere, Allan Kozinn of The New York Times wrote, "Its big, exploratory opening movement is packed with quick, insistent solo lines and dialogues between the violin and either the full orchestra or individual sections or players; its lush, slow movement (here in the form of a chaconne) exploits the violin's ...
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The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
[54]: 252–253 Of Higdon's many pieces, blue cathedral is most frequently performed. In 2010, Higdon won the Grammy award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto. Also in 2010 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Violin Concerto, premiered by Hilary Hahn. [57]