A Brief Biography of David Dickau

“Composer Donald Grantham is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes in composition, including the Prix Lili Boulanger, the Nissim/ASCAP Orchestral Composition Prize, First Prize in the Concordia Chamber Symphony 's Awards to American Composers, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, three First Prizes in the NBA/William Revelli Competition, two First Prizes in the ABA/Ostwald Competition, and First Prize in the National Opera Association 's Biennial Composition Competition. His music has been praised for its "elegance, sensitivity, lucidity of thought, clarity of expression and fine lyricism" in a Citation awarded by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In recent years his works have been performed by the orchestras of Cleveland, Dallas, Atlanta and the American Composers Orchestra among many others, and he has fulfilled commissions in media from solo instruments to opera. His music is published by Piquant Press, Peer-Southern, E. C. Schirmer, G. Schirmer, Warner Bros. and Mark Foster, and a

David Boies is an American Lawyer and was born on March 11, 1941. Boies attended University of Redlands and became a part of Phi Beta Kappa and Northwestern University in 1964 a received a B.S. In 1966 he attended Yale Law School where he received a LL.B and was magna cum laude. On top of that, he also attended New York University School of Law in 1967 and received a LL.M. His areas of practice are: Litigation, Antitrust, Class Actions, Crisis Management and Government Response, Global Investigations and White Collar Defense, International Arbitration, Privacy, Cybersecurity & Technology, Securities Litigation and Sports Law. He as also received multiple awards and achievements for his work; Lawyer of the Year by the National Law Journal,

John Fahey’s 1966 masters thesis A textual and musicological analysis of the repertoire of Charley Patton has the distinction of being the first book-length analysis of the music of Charley Patton. Fahey’s text focused primarily on assembling the historical facts of Patton’s life, while the analytical portions —written with the aid of Dr. David Morton, UCLA —-focused on systematizing Patton’s repertoire based on modal constructs present in his vocal melodies. Fahey’s biographical information focused on characterizing Patton as an entertainer; However, the analytical portion omits significant lines of inquiry that result in an incomplete picture of Patton’s repertoire. Fahey notes the utilitarian function of Patton’s music, but does not detail musical examples of this utility, especially in relation to the guitar. That is the purpose of this document.

David Brainerd was born in on April 20, 1718 to Hezekiah Brainerd, Esq, and Dorothy Hobart. He had four brothers and four sisters. Most of his brothers ended up in the ministry, although those that did not were respectable upright people. David's father died when he was nine and his mother died five years later when David was fourteen, so at a very young David was fatherless and motherless.1

My life would be incomplete without performing music. I’ve spent time, in concert bands, in bell choirs, in school and church choirs, and singing, playing in music festivals, and in pit bands trying not to laugh my head off at the actors’ improvisations. But the art that truly speaks to my soul does not lie in creating music, it lies in dancing to it.

As a young adult, Malotte left Philadelphia. He worked mostly as an organist for movie houses and an organ teacher. At one point, having spent all his money and having no plans, he needed to ask his father for money for his train fare to return home to Philadelphia. It was during this train ride, while reflecting on his own situation as well as the biblical account of the prodigal son and the words of the Lord’s Prayer that he came up with the idea of his most famous composition. Although for years it remained nothing more than an idea.

David Lowery has experience in the music industry, he has the passion to evoke emotions, what

This essay explores the influence composers had on the musical output of John Williams. Throughout his career, Williams has been able to provide his audiences with emotions and thoughts that were brought upon with the use of his musical compositions. Williams’ work has been able to capture the thoughts and feelings of individuals both onscreen and off screen. His film scores were able to tell a story in ways that previous composers were not able to.

First, on many occasions, Saint Anthony’s Catholic School would be without its only music teacher who would have to take leave several times a year. Because her daughters both attended Saint Anthony Catholic School, LaBeau was often asked to substitute, heading the music department the majority of the time. Eventually, LaBeau permanently became the music teacher for Saint Anthony Catholic School, and in her curriculum, she teaches ecclesiastical songs to the children in preparation for their weekly school mass and also directs the school’s choir. One of her former Saint Anthony Catholic School choir members remarks, “Through Mrs. LaBeau, I was able to strengthen my faith by learning new songs each week. Choir at Saint Anthony’s made me feel like a part of something, and when we sang, we sang together. There’s something about singing songs about our faith during mass in unison that is so powerful. But the choir would be all over the place, if it wasn’t for Mrs. LaBeau” (Calara). In the meantime, Father Adrian, one of the previous priests of the parish, was aware of LaBeau’s active Ronnie’s School of Music, and asked her to consider leading Saint Anthony Catholic Church’s choir, which was in desperate need of a director. Because of her experience and passion for choir, LaBeau excitedly accepted. LaBeau then built the choir, standing in front of the masses of people during

Wolfgang’s life was profoundly impacted by the history of his time, it allowed him to compose, play and direct music and eventually live freely, ultimately setting the stage for him to create some of the best music pieces to date.

Beethoven once said, “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of a woman.” I find this quote to be very true because many of Shapiro’s pieces that I have listened to has made me feel many emotions. A good composer will fill ears with music, but, a great composer will fill hearts with music. According to a 2010 interview, an interview asked Shapiro “what kind of composer are you?” and she replied “a wonderful composer!” I love her enthusiasm and sense of humor; Shapiro later followed up her response to that question and stated that she is a heartfelt composer, who writes in all genres and styles. Alex Shapiro was born in New York City in 1962, and she was brought up in Manhattan. She moved to Los Angeles in 1983, where she stayed for 24 years. Shapiro studied at The Juilliard School and The Manhattan School of Music, in fact, that is where she realized she loved composing acoustic and electroacoustic music (“Landscape Music”). Although Alex Shapiro is not as well known as some composers, she still has a great musical history, and she is still hard at work with new projects.

David Coalson decided to enlist in the Marines only a month after his eighteenth birthday. “I wanted to be able to choose what I was going to do, rather than be told”, there was no end of the school year celebration this year. Coalson was going to something much worse, bootcamp. Bootcamp seemed to be forever but ended up flying by and before he knew it, he was shipped to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There was problems going down in Cuba however nothing to what he was about to face. All these events, graduating, turning eighteen, bootcamp, and Guantanamo Bay went by as fast as they were listed to Coalson. The real challenge was on the horizon, a deadly jungle, Vietnam.

He has also played in such venues as the Wadsworth Atheneum, and various retirement homes. He had the honor of playing William Bolcom’s Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble as a winner of the Hartt School’s Paranov Concerto Competition. Sean Tanguay is a student of Carrie Koffman.

Lynn has been a faculty member at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Long Island University, State University of New York at New Paltz, William Patterson College, and is currently a full professor at the University of North Texas. He thoroughly enjoys teaching workshops, coaching ensembles, and doing artist-in residence programs, having done many

Besides John Armstrong’s son are a handful of professional-level students more than qualified to meet the challenges and expectations with interpreting John Armstrong’s compositions. The challenges for these performers include exploring atmospheric colours and timbres while showing the overall narrative and dramatic flow of the piece. Like every composer, John Armstrong only asks his performers “to make me sound good!” and the line-up of performers on November 5th will most certainly be apt to the