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Lindsay, Vachel

American poet (see songs) 1879 - 1931, working primarily in English

This entry contributed by G&K around 11/21/98

Other Web Site: http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=17019

See also Congo and Other Poems [by Vachel Lindsay] (Poetry) in the Singers' Bibliography

This entry contributed by G&K around 1/25/99

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Locklair, Dan

American composer (see songs) working primarily in English

This entry contributed by G&K around 8/26/98

Other Web Site: http://www.wfu.edu/Academic-departments/Music/faculty-locklair.html

This entry contributed by G&K around 4/11/99

His (quite possibly old) bio: Dan Locklair, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music. His prolific output includes symphonic works, a ballet, an opera and numerous solo, chamber, vocal and choral compositions. Dr. Locklair's numerous awards have included consecutive ASCAP Awards since 1981, a Kennedy Center Friedham Award, an Alienor Award, the new Music Award from the Omaha Symphony Society, a North Carolina Composer Fellowship Award and the top Barlow International Competition Award for 1989. In 1992, he became the first American composer to be invited to and have music performed at the thirty-five-year-old Czech Festival of Choral Arts in Jihlava, Czech Republic.

Dan Locklair's music has been premiered by such ensembles as the Gregg Smith Singers, the Pittsbirgh New Music Ensemble, the Omaha Symphony, and solo performers Igor Kipnis and Leonard Raver. His commissions have included works for the Knoxville Symphony, the North Carolina Dance Theatre, the Binghamton Symphony, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Mallarme Chamber Players and a Barlow Endowment Commission. Dr. Locklair's music has been widely performed, including performances at the Aspen Music Festival, New York's Alice Tully Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center, Interlochen and the Brevard Music Center (Composer-in-Residence, 1989 season). Broadcasts of his music have been heard world-wide over Voice of America, Czech Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, and the American Public Radio programs "St. Paul Sunday Morning," "Pipe Dreams" and "Performance Today." Locklair's music is commercially availabl;e on the Orion, Opus One, Gasparo, Titanic and Pro Arte Fanfare labels. His primary publisher is E. C. Kerby, Ltd. Ricordi).

Locklair is listed in numkerous biographical dictionaries, including the international Who's Who in Music, Contemprary American Composers, Dictionary of Distinguished Americans and Dictionary of International Biography. His former teachers have included Ezra Laderman, Samuel Adler and Joseph Schwantner (composition), as well as Robert Baker and David Craighead (organ). Presently, Dan Locklair is Composer-in-Residence and an Associate Professor of Music at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Other Web Site: http://www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/dlocklai.html

This entry contributed by G&K around 11/24/98

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

American poet (see songs) 1807 - 1882, working primarily in English

This entry contributed by G&K around 9/7/98

Abridged from a reference book: poet, translator, college professor. Longfellow's work ranges from the popular to the serious; his gifts are varyingly regarded by critics, but during his life he was a favorite in America and increased the audiences for poetry there. He came from a New England family and taught at Bowdoin College, Harvard, and (I'm not sure about this one:) Cambridge.

Other Web Site: http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=17106

See also Favorite Poems [by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] (Poetry) in the Singers' Bibliography

This entry contributed by G&K around 9/7/98

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