| 词条 | Michael Torke |
| 释义 |
Michael Torke ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ɔr|k|i}}; born September 22, 1961) is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Torke was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended Wilson Elementary School, graduated from Wauwatosa East High School, and studied at the Eastman School of Music with Joseph Schwantner and Christopher Rouse, and at Yale University.{{Citation needed|date=October 2013}} Works{{Main|List of compositions by Michael Torke}}Sometimes described as a post-minimalist,[1] his most characteristically postminimal piece is Four Proverbs, in which the syllable for each pitch is fixed and variations in the melody produce streams of nonsense words. Other works in this style include Book of Proverbs and Song of Isaiah. An early piece where he first used a certain post-minimalist style was Vanada, made in 1984. His best-known work is probably Javelin, which he composed in 1994, commissioned by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympics in celebration of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary season, in conjunction with the 1996 Summer Olympics. Commissioned by Disney and Michael Eisner for the New York Philharmonic's Millennium Celebration, he wrote Four Seasons, an oratorio for chorus and orchestra celebrating various aspects of the months. He wrote a ballet in 2002, The Contract, with choreography by James Kudelka. Torke was also commissioned to help Chicago celebrate the centennial of Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago and produced a work entitled Plans that was performed at the Grant Park Music Festival in June 2009.[2][3] A synesthete,[4] he is the composer of numerous pieces (Bright Blue Music, Ecstatic Orange) which include colors in the titles, later made into the suite Color Music. Other pieces include the opera The Directions (1986), Rust (1989), influenced by rap and disco, Telephone Book (1985, 1995), Adjustable Wrench, and Ash (1989) and Mass (1990), which received criticism for an attempt at the style of Beethoven and Mendelssohn. In 2003, he created his own record label, Ecstatic Records, on which he re-released a set of six 1990s CDs that were deleted by the now out-of-business Argo Records, which was a subsidiary of Decca Records. His opera Pop'pea, a rock opera version of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, was commissioned by the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and premiered there on May 29, 2012.[5] {{see also|Category:Ballets by Michael Torke}}Awards
References1. ^{{cite book|last1=Simeone|first1=Nigel|title=Colourful Exuberance (Liner Notes in Michael Torke - Color Music 4784580)|date=2012|publisher=Decca Music Group Limited|location=London, England|page=5|accessdate=12 February 2015}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/2009-season/burnhams-plan-and-rachmaninoffs-3rd|title=From 1909: Burnham’s Plan and Rachmaninoff’s 3rd|accessdate=2010-05-10|publisher=Grant Park Music Festival}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://chicagoclassicalreview.com/2009/06/with-unplanned-weather-torkes-plans-receives-ardent-if-soggy-premiere/|title=With unplanned weather, Torke’s "Plans" receives ardent if soggy premiere|accessdate=2010-05-10|date=2009-06-20|author=Johnson, Lawrence A.|work=Chicago Classical Review}} 4. ^{{cite web|last1=Torke|first1=Michael|title=Ecstatic Orange for orchestra (1985)|url=http://www.michaeltorke.com/detail.php?compid=60|website=michaeltorke.com|publisher=Michael Torke|accessdate=12 February 2015}} 5. ^"Pop'pea - Monteverdi version vidéo-pop", Le Parisien, {{fr icon}} Pop'pea (31 May 2012) review by Stephen J. Mudge, Opera News, August 2012, vol. 77, no. 2 6. ^"11th Annual Independent Music Awards Winners Announced!" Independent Music Awards, 2 May 2012. Retrieved on 4 September 2013. External links
Listening
15 : 1961 births|Living people|21st-century classical composers|20th-century classical composers|American male classical composers|American classical composers|American opera composers|Eastman School of Music alumni|Ballet composers|Pupils of Christopher Rouse (composer)|Charles Ives Prize|21st-century American composers|20th-century American composers|20th-century male musicians|21st-century male musicians |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。