词条 | Gordon Binkerd |
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BiographyBackground and early lifeBinkerd was born in Lynch, Nebraska on May 22, 1916. He was the eldest of three boys from Archibald and Verna Jones Binkerd. His talent was first discovered at age fifteen when he was chosen as one of the five best pianists in America, at a national competition in Gregory, South Dakota; where he and his family settled due to his father’s Bell Telephone company. In 1933, young Binkerd left home to attend Dakota Wesley College in Mitchell, South Dakota. He benefited at this college from associations with musicians such as Gail Kubik and Rusell Danburg. Binkerd was also influenced by teachers who nurtured his interest in literature and poetry at Wesleyan. In 1940, Binkerd began advanced study at the Eastman School of Music, but his composer talent began to ripen when he entered Harvard College in 1946. As a candidate for the PhD in musicology, his absorption of music of the past provided a historical base of knowledge that framed his compositional perspective. At Harvard, his skills were refined as a student of Walter Piston and as teaching assistant to Irving Fine. Also, at Harvard he broke a habitual response for a pianist of composing at the piano. Binkerd left Harvard in 1949 to become a theorist and composer at the University of Illinois. Each summer he participated in retreats in New Hampshire and New York in order to compose. In the mid 1960's, Binkerd entered into a contract for the publication of all his music with the New York publishing House, Boosey & Hawkes. By that time, he had already written three symphonies; a piano sonata; two string quartets; a growing list of sonatas for wind and string instruments and a large quantity of chamber, choral and vocal music, which his publisher began to release in 1965. Six years later, he retired from academics to fully devote himself to writing music. During the next 25 years he wrote until the onset of Alzheimer's disease in 1996 which brought compositional activities to an end. DeathBinkerd died of Alzheimer's disease Friday, September 5, 2003 at his Urbana, Illinois home.[3] AchievementsAs a blooming composer Gordon was the first professor at the University of Illinois to become a member of its Center for Advanced Study in the year 1959, only entering as a regular teacher in the year of 1949. He then became a Guggenheim fellowship member also in the year of 1959. In the late years of 1964 Gordon received the National Institute of Arts and Letters award. As a Composer he received many commissions for music from such places as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the University of Illinois, South Dakota State University, the Fromm Music foundation and the ford foundation in the year 1973. Later on in the year 1987, Dakota Wesleyan University honored Gordon as its Alumnus of the Year, following in the year 1996, DWU awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts toward Gordon. Compositions
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References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Saladino|first1=David|title=Gordon Binkerd|url=http://www.sai-national.org/home/ComposersBureau/BinkerdGordon/tabid/634/Default.aspx|website=sai-national.org|publisher=Gordon Binkerd Publications|accessdate=14 December 2015|ref=1}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Binkerd, Gordon}}2. ^{{cite web|last1=Vought|first1=Lynn|title=Gordon Binkerd|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gordon-binkerd-mn0001537684|website=allmusic.com|publisher=All Music|accessdate=14 December 2015|ref=2}} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=Rozas|first1=Angela|title=Gordon Binkerd|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-09-10/news/0309100287_1_choral-music-st-louis-symphony-orchestra-carnegie-hall|website=chicagotribune.com|publisher=Chicago Tribune|accessdate=14 December 2015|ref=3}} 4. ^{{cite web|last1=Shackelford|first1=Rudy|title=The Music of Gordon Binkerd|jstor=943693|website=https://www.jstor.org/|publisher=Cambridge University Press|ref=4}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Books by Gordon Binkerd|url=https://www.amazon.com/Gordon-Binkerd/e/B00JBQMXYU|website=https://www.amazon.com/|publisher=Gordon Binkerd Publications|accessdate=14 December 2015|ref=4}} 7 : Harvard University alumni|Eastman School of Music alumni|1916 births|2003 deaths|People from Boyd County, Nebraska|People from Gregory County, South Dakota|People from Urbana, Illinois |
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