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词条 Gregory Spears
释义

  1. Background

  2. Style

  3. Selected works

     Opera  Chorus and orchestra  Large chamber ensemble  Small chamber ensemble  Solo piano  Voice and piano 

  4. References

  5. External links

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| birth_place = Virginia
| nationality = American
| alma_mater = Eastman School of Music, Yale University, Princeton University
| residence = New York City, New York
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| occupation = composer
| label = Fanfare Cincinnati, New Amsterdam Records}}
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}}Gregory Spears is an American composer of instrumental and operatic works that blend aspects of romanticism, minimalism, and early music.[1] Among his best known works are the operas Fellow Travelers and Paul's Case, as well as his Requiem.[2]

Background

Spears grew up in Virginia. He attended Eastman School of Music, received a master's degree at Yale University, and earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University.[3] He studied with Hans Abrahamsen and Per Nørgård while a Fulbright Scholar at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.[4]

Style

Spears' music often draws on earlier musical styles processed through contemporary minimalist techniques.[5]

The New York Times's Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim described his opera Fellow Travelers: "But what makes Fellow Travelers such a satisfying operatic experience is the old-fashioned combination of a swift-flowing and deft libretto and gorgeous music." [6] Alex Ross in The New Yorker elaborates: "The harmony is largely tonal, but it is anti-Romantic in effect, tending instead toward a decorous neo-Baroque sensibility. Voices and instruments often perform courtly pirouettes against sustained chords and even pulses. The atmosphere is one of hushed disclosure: the music implies more than it says. What emerges is a potently ambiguous sound world that conveys human warmth and chill in equal measure. Above all, it is a transparent medium in which singing actors can speak instead of shout." [7]

Heidi Waleson described Spears' compositional style in her Wall Street Journal review of the opera O Columbia: "Mr. Spears writes brilliantly for vocal ensembles. Starting with neoclassical-style clarity, he builds textured, complex musical structures that sound old and new at the same time, and his skillful text settings use minimalist-like repetition to give Mr. Vavrek's pointed, thoughtful words even more power and emotional specificity."[8]

Steve Smith, in his New York Times review of the opera Paul's Case, based on the Willa Cather short story of the same title, described the score: "Mr. Spears's elegantly spare music, with its gamelan-redolent modes and clockwork repetitions, Baroque vocal fillips, intricately woven ensembles and dramatically placed dissonances, further infuses the tale with a sense of ritual and inevitability."[9]

David Patrick Stearns, in his Philadelphia Inquirer review of Spears' Requiem, described his musical influences: "Spears intersperses the swan myth with the requiem text, much of it reflecting lyrical Baltic influences of Arvo Pärt, but with a young composer's restlessness. The swan's song is speculatively re-created with otherworldly vocal ornaments. The piece also contains counterpoint that echoes 16th-century madrigals as well as a modern sense of theatrical timing that keeps your ears on edge until the last note."[10]

Fellow Travelers, adapted by Greg Pierce from the novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon, premiered at Cincinnati Opera on June 17, 2016. It received positive notices in Opera News,[11] The New York Times,[12] and parterre box.[13]

Selected works

Opera

  • Jason and the Argonauts, world premiere at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Libretto by Kathryn Walat, 2016[14]
  • Fellow Travelers, world premiere at Cincinnati Opera, Libretto by Greg Pierce, 2016[15]
  • O Columbia, commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, Libretto by Royce Vavrek, 2015[8]
  • Paul's Case, world premiere at UrbanArias, Libretto by Kathryn Walat, 2013[16]
  • Wolf in Skins, work-in-progress with choreographer and librettist Christopher Williams[17]
  • The Bricklayer, commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, Libretto by Farnoosh Moshiri, 2012[18]

Chorus and orchestra

  • A New Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei for the Mozart Requiem, commissioned by Seraphic Fire and the Firebird Chamber Orchestra, 2013[19]

Large chamber ensemble

  • Virginiana, on texts by Robert Bolling, commissioned by The Damask Ensemble and New Vintage Baroque, 2015[20]
  • Requiem, commissioned by Christopher Williams Dances and released by New Amsterdam Records, 2010[10]

Small chamber ensemble

  • Our Lady, written for Ryland Angel and The Sebastian Chamber Players, 2011[21]
  • Buttonwood, commissioned for performance by the JACK Quartet in 2010[22]

Solo piano

  • Toccata (Troika), commissioned for the New York International Piano Competition by the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation, 2018 [23]
  • Toccata (Wild Horses), commissioned by Marika Bournaki, 2012 [24]

Voice and piano

  • Walden, a song cycle commissioned for performance by Vocal Arts DC, 2018 [25]

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/gregoryspears/|title=Profile Gregory Spears|website=New Music USA|publisher= |access-date= November 24, 2015}}
2. ^{{cite web| title=Gregory Spears – Requiem| url=https://www.newamrecords.com/albums/requiem| website=New Amsterdam Records | publication-date=June 2010 | date=2011 | access-date=March 18, 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web| title=Gregory Spears ’02 MM wins Carlos Surinach Commission| url=http://music.yale.edu/2015/08/10/gregory-spears-02-mm-wins-carlos-surinach-commission/| work= | website=Yale School of Music | date=August 10, 2015 | access-date=March 19, 2018}}
4. ^{{cite web| title=Gregory Spears – Profile| url=https://en.schott-music.com/shop/autoren/gregory-spears| website=Schott Music | access-date=March 19, 2018}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/03/the-opera-lab|title=The Opera Lab |last1=Ross|first1=Alex|date=February 3, 2014| work=The New Yorker|access-date= November 24, 2015}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/arts/music/best-classical.html|title=The Best Classical Music of 2016|last1=da Fonseca-Wollheim|first1=Corinna|date=December 7, 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 9, 2017}}
7. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/an-opera-about-gay-life-in-dc-in-the-fifties|title=An Opera About Gay Life in D.C. in the Fifties|last1=Ross|first1=Alex|date=January 15, 2018|work=The New Yorker|access-date=July 7, 2018}}
8. ^1 {{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/o-columbia-and-sweeney-todd-reviews-1443477827|title=O Columbia and Sweeney Todd Reviews |last1=Waleson|first1=Heidi|date=September 28, 2015|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=November 24, 2015}}
9. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/arts/music/urbanarias-presents-operatic-version-of-pauls-case.html|title=Prototype Presents Operatic Version of Paul's Case|last1=Smith|first1=Steve|date=January 10, 2014|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 24, 2015}}
10. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://articles.philly.com/2011-11-13/news/30394075_1_caveman-meek-mill-memorable-songs|title=New Recordings |last1= Stearns|first1= David Patrick|date=November 13, 2011| work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=November 24, 2015}}
11. ^{{cite journal|last1=Cohn|first1=Fred|title=Fellow Travelers| url=http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2016/7/In_Review/CINCINNATI__Fellow_Travelers.html|accessdate=June 22, 2016|work=Opera News|date=July 2016|volume=81|issue=1}}
12. ^{{cite news|last1=da Fonseca-Wollheim|first1=Corinna| title=Review: Gay Love in the Time of McCarthy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/arts/music/review-fellow-travelers-cincinnati-opera.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0|accessdate=22 June 2016|work=The New York Times|date=June 20, 2016}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://parterre.com/2016/06/21/cruise-control/ | title=Cruise, control | first=Donna| last=Anna | website=parterre.com | accessdate=June 21, 2016| date= June 21, 2016}}
14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/vonrhein/ct-lyric-to-premiere-youth-opera-jason-20160509-column.html|title=Lyric to premiere youth opera 'Jason'|last1=von Rhein|first1=John|date=May 9, 2016|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=January 9, 2017}}
15. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.cincinnatiopera.org/|title=Home Cincinnati Opera|website= cincinnatiopera.org|access-date=November 24, 2015}}
16. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/skillful-singers-bring-a-short-story-to-life-in-urbanarias-pauls-case/2013/04/22/691a33de-aab8-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html|title=Skillful singers bring a short story to life in UrbanArias Paul's Case|last1=Catlin|first1=Roger|date=April 22, 2013|work=The Washington Post|access-date=November 24, 2015}}
17. ^{{cite web |url=http://articles.philly.com/2013-01-21/news/36447949_1_philadelphia-dance-projects-grand-opera-humans|title=Beasts of a musical wild |last1=Stearns|first1=David Patrick|date=January 21, 2013|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=November 24, 2015}}
18. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304636404577291330445460716|title=The Bricklayer - Houston Grand Opera - A Glimpse Behind the Wall |last1=Waleson|first1=Heidi|date=March 19, 2012|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=November 24, 2015}}
19. ^{{cite web |url=http://southfloridaclassicalreview.com/2013/11/seraphic-fires-premiere-of-complete-mozart-requiem-effectively-blends-old-and-new/|title=Seraphic Fire's premiere of complete Mozart Requiem effectively blends old and new|last1=Fleshler|first1=David|date=November 16, 2013| publisher = South Florida Classical Review |website=southfloridaclassicalreview.com|access-date=November 24, 2015}}
20. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.classicalite.com/articles/17355/20150219/new-vintage-baroque-damask-ensemble-tour-fated-lovers-program-premiere-gregory-spears-cantata-virginiana.htm|title=New Vintage Baroque, Damask Ensemble Tour|last1=Prisco|first1=Jaime|date=February 19, 2015|website=classicalite.com|access-date=November 24, 2015}}
21. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.eamdc.com/psny/composers/gregory-spears/works/our-lady/|title=PSNY: Gregory Spears - Our Lady|website=eamdc.com|access-date= November 24, 2015}}
22. ^{{cite web| title=Gregory Spears – Buttonwood – string quartet| url=https://www.eamdc.com/psny/composers/gregory-spears/works/buttonwood/| website=eamdc.com | publisher=PSNY, Project Schott New York | date=2010 | access-date=March 22, 2018}}
23. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwclassical/article/2018-Winners-Of-The-New-York-International-Piano-Competition-Announced-At-Awards-Ceremony-Held-On-Friday-Night-20180625|title=2018 Winners Of The New York International Piano Competition Announced At Awards Ceremony Held On Friday Night|date=June 25, 2018| publisher = Broadway World |website=broadwayworld.com|access-date=July 7, 2018}}
24. ^{{cite web| title=Gregory Spears – Toccata (Wild Horses) – solo piano| url=https://www.eamdc.com/psny/composers/gregory-spears/works/toccata-wild-horses/| website=eamdc.com | publisher=PSNY, Project Schott New York | date=2012 | access-date=July 7, 2018}}
25. ^{{cite web |url=https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2018/04/24/interview-composer-gregory-spears-unpacks-thoreau-in-upcoming-dc-world-premiere/|title=Interview: Composer Gregory Spears Unpacks Thoreau in Upcoming DC World Premiere|date=April 24, 2018| publisher = DC Metro Theater Arts |website=dcmetrotheaterarts.com|access-date=July 7, 2018}}

External links

  • {{official website|http://www.gregoryspears.com/}}
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