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George Frideric Handel was the house composer at Cannons from August 1717 until February 1719. [1] The Chandos Anthems and other important works by Handel were conceived, written or first performed at Cannons. Cannons was a large house in Middlesex, the seat of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos who was a patron of Handel.
Howard Frazin (born 1962) is a composer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. His works are published by Edition Peters and he has served as president of Composers in Red Sneakers . He served on the faculty of the Longy School of Music and has taught at New England Conservatory , Northeastern University , and Roxbury Latin School .
In 1717, Handel became composer in residence at Cannons in Middlesex, seat of James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon, who in 1719 became the First Duke of Chandos. [1] [2] Johann Christoph Pepusch was Master of Music, having taken up his post before Handel's arrival.
At Boston University, she directed the electronic music studio and taught private composition lessons, as well as classes in Advanced Counterpoint, Cannon and Fugue, (for graduate students), Pedagogy of Theory, Ear Training and Music Theory.
He was a composer and concert pianist. [6] From 1950 to 1962, he was the director of the South End Music Center in Boston, Massachusetts and from 1962 to 1976, he was the director of the Longy School of Music of Bard College. [7] [8] [9] From 1962 to 1967, he was the conductor of the Quincy Symphony. [7]
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (December 25, 1829 – September 24, 1892) was an Irish-born American composer and military bandmaster who lived and worked in the United States after 1848. [1]
Among his awards include the B.M.I. Award in 1970, the Margaret Grant Award from Tanglewood in 1974 (when he was a composition fellow [7]), and the 1979 UMass/Boston award in music composition (which resulted in performance at the 2nd annual Harbor Festival "Winds and Airs - Music to Celebrate Spring" on UMass Boston's campus in April 1979).
As composer he was known as “Chick,” directing the “Chick Story Trio” and “Chick Story Serenaders,” but as a publisher he remained “Oliver E. Story.” [10] Story's publishing offices closed in 1917, and in 1918 Oliver was employed in the Boston office of Leo Feist .