Catalog: Biographies: Page 9 of 25
Please keep this site alive by contributing song listings and other information to the catalog. See the bottom of every catalog page for how. Frost, Robert
American poet (see songs)
3/6/1874 - 1/29/1963,
working primarily in English
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poems and biography at this site.
Other Web Site: http://www.hearts-ease.org/library/frost/index.html
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Other Web Site: http://www.pro-net.co.uk/home/catalyst/RF/bio.html
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[click for top of page] Gershon, Karen
English (German) poet (see songs)
1923 - 3/1993,
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From the foreward to Lori Laitman's cycle Daughters.
Karen Gershon was born in 1923, as Kaethe Loewenthal. She was the youngest of three sisters--Anna, Lise, and Kaethe--who lived in Bielefeld. In 1938, Karen and Lise came to England on a Children's Transport--a scheme, organised from overseas, to get Jewish children out of Germany. Karen effectively was on her own in England from 1939 when Lise went on to Palestine. (Although Anna arrived in England the same year, she went her own way.) Their parents were murdered by the Nazis.
Karen married Val Tripp in 1948. They had four children. Their daughter Stella was born in 1954. The family emigrated to Israel at the end of 1968. In 1971 Stella returned to England to go to art college--a parallel to Karen leaving her own parents. The poem 'Stella Remembered' was written in 1972 and was first published in 'My Daughters, My Sisters, and other Poems (1975). The following is a quote from Karen which appears on the dust-jacket: '...(the poems) were written during the past two years abroad--which in this context matters only insofar as, for me, it meant a separation from Stella, my third child and the one closest to me.
Val and Karen returned to live in England in 1973. Three of their four children now live in Israel--Stella lives in England. Karen died after a heart-bypass operation in March 1993. She published 6 collections of poetry, 3 non-fiction books and three novels.
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[click for top of page] Goodman, Paul
American poet (see songs)
1911 - 1972,
working primarily in English
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Other Web Site: http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=15231
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[click for top of page] Graves, Robert
English poet (see songs)
1895 - 1985,
working primarily in English
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Other Web Site: http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=2352
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[click for top of page] Greer, John
Canadian composer (see songs)
1954 - ,
working primarily in English
This entry contributed by G&K around 8/26/98
Other Web Site: http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/cmc/dac_rca/eng/f_/Greer_John.html
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[click for top of page] Hagen, Daron
American composer (see songs)
1961 - ,
working primarily in English
This entry contributed by G&K around 12/21/98
The bio in his cd: At the age of 15, Daron Hagen's orchestral music attracted the attention of Leonard Bernstein, whose enthusiastic comments led to Hagen's eventual enrollment at the Curtis Institute of Music. While still astudent at the Curtis Institute, his music was introduced by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Before graduating fromJuilliard, Hagen had begun fulfilling commissions from the New York Philharmonic and other major American orchestras.
Daron Hagen has served as composer in residence for the Long Beach (CA) Symphony, the Carmago Foundation in Cassis, France, and he has been the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Residency at Bellagio, Italy. He has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and other organizations and he is a member of the Corporation of Yaddo. He currently teaches composition at the Curtis Institute of Music and has taught at Bard College, New York University and the City College of New York. His work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, the Bearns Prize of Columbia University, the Charles Ives Scholarship of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Barlow Endowment International Composition Prize, multiple BMI and ASCAP prizes, as well as multiple residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Virgina Center for the Creative Arts, Tanglewood, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Also from the cd, composer and music critic Russell Platt makes a number of interesting remarks, a few of which I will excerpt here. "Daron Hagen is the finest American composer of vocal music in his generation . . . ." Hagen studied with Ned Rorem. "Song has been a central focus of Hagen's output, and that output has been immense: he has composed over 300 songs since his teenage years. Like most of the notable song composers of the Western tradition, Hagen is a gifted pianist, and if his piano parts can range from a Schubertian simplicity to a Straussian lushness, they always keep the singer's role first and foremost--the words are always clear." Finally, "Perhaps because Hagen's music is consistently accessible, a certain perception has arisen in some quarters that it must be always friendly and unchallenging, but this is hardly fair. There is much darkness here . . . ."
The cd also mentions a forthcoming (? in 1997) doctoral dissertation entitled The Art Songs of Daron Aric Hagen by Professor Paul K. Kreider of the Department of Music, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Other Web Site: http://www.spacelab.net/~hagen/
See also Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) in the Singers' Bibliography
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