Joan Tower

Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938) is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world. After gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia (1981), a tone poem which structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has gone on to compose a variety of instrumental works including Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, which is something of a response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, the Island Prelude, two string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems. Tower was pianist and founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, which commissioned and premiered many of her early works, including her widely-performed Petroushskates.

Biography

Born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1938, Tower moved to the South American nation of Bolivia when she was nine years old, an experience which she credits for making rhythm an integral part of her work. For the next decade Tower's talent in music, particularly on the piano, grew rapidly due to her father's insistence that she benefit from consistent musical training. Tower's relationship with her mineralogist father is visible in many aspects of her work, most specifically her "mineral works" including Black Topaz (1976) and Silver Ladders (1986). She returned to the United States as a young woman to study music, first at Bennington College, in Vermont, and then at Columbia University where she studied under Otto Luening, Jack Beeson, and Vladimir Ussachevsky and was awarded her doctorate in composition in 1968.

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Joan Tower Receives the Gold Baton from League of American Orchestras

Public Technologies 05 Jun 2019

BMI is exceptionally proud to congratulate composer Joan Tower for receiving the Gold Baton from the League of American Orchestras at the Closing Plenary of the League's 74th National Conference in Nashville, on Wednesday ... Please join us in congratulating Joan Tower for this ......

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Nashville Symphony presents Carmina Burana

Nashville Pride 30 May 2019

Enjoy the spectacle of the season and experience Carmina Burana as never before in this multimedia sensation. Carmina Burana features updated choreography from the Nashville Ballet and an original film that will bring this bawdy medieval text vividly to life ... The program consists of Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman by Joan Tower; Symphony No ... .......

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Steven James ‘Steve’ Stepan

Mesabi Daily News 19 May 2019

He was born April 5, 1944 in Soudan, the son of John and Marion (Atwood) Stepan, was a graduate of Tower-Soudan High School, and served in the Army National Guard. Steve grew up in Soudan, MN and lived in Chicago, IL, Bonita Springs, FL, and Lake Vermilion-Tower prior to moving to Ely, MN....

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Celebrating a different three B's

Dispatch Argus 15 May 2019

The Quad City Symphony Orchestra will celebrate three different B's in a special concert at 2 p.m ... Saturday's Signature Series concert starts with Joan Tower's “Copperwave” (2006), commissioned for the American Brass Quintet by the Juilliard School for its centennial celebration, and includes Anthony Plog's Four Sketches for Brass Quintet (1991) ... ....

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Steve James Stepan

Mesabi Daily News 12 May 2019

He was born April 5, 1944 in Soudan, the son of John and Marion (Atwood) Stepan, was a graduate of Tower-Soudan High School, and served in the Army National Guard. Steve grew up in Soudan, and lived in Chicago, Bonita Springs FL, and Lake Vermilion-Tower prior to moving to Ely....

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Queens New Music Festival presents 12 concerts over six days in LIC

QNS 09 May 2019

This really sounds fantastic!. The Queens New Music Festival presents 12 concerts over six days at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City from Tuesday, May 14, through Sunday, May 19 ... (Tuesday, Friday, Saturday. $30; Sunday ... Consortium (May 17, 8 p.m.) features Joan Tower’s “Rising” for flute and string quartet in honor of Tower’s 80th birthday season....

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Celebrating the chimes

The News Banner 26 Apr 2019

Its deep tone was actually vibrating parts of the tower to pieces, requiring it to be silenced. Courthouse custodian Bobbie Studebaker noted the deep sound waves emanating from the bell over 100-plus years were causing the mortar to crack and fall out of the bricks and blocks of the courthouse tower....

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Philharmonia to play Brahms; solos abound in Orchestra New England’s latest

New Haven Register 18 Apr 2019

Two New Haven classical music concerts offer intriguing compositions in the days ahead. At Yale, Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian will lead the Yale Philharmonia in a concert of Brahms’ “First Symphony,” Reinecke’s “Flute Concerto in D major, Op. 283” and Joan Tower’s “Made in America” from 2005 ... 1 in C minor, Op ... Orchestra New England ... ....

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RCMS presents Felici Piano Trio on April 12

The Daily Independent - Ridgecrest 02 Apr 2019

The concert will include music by Joan Tower, Big Sky for Piano Trio; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major, Opus 58; and Antonín Dvořák, Piano Trio in F Minor, Opus 65.The concert will take place at the Ridgecrest Presbyterian Church, 633 W. [...] ... ....

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Park City and Summit County residents get first dibs on Deer Valley Music Festival tickets

Park Record 01 Apr 2019

The Utah Symphony . Utah Opera is giving Park City and Summit County residents first dibs on the 16th annual Deer Valley Music Festival ... "E.T ... 1 ... "When we started the Deer Valley Music Festival, our main education event was a collaboration with the Muir Quartet, and composer Joan Tower, in the Emerging Quartets and Composers project," she said ... .......

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McLaren Macomb celebrates milestone in construction of $68 million expansion

Macomb Daily 27 Mar 2019

Tom Brisse, president and CEO of McLaren Macomb stands beside a beam that was signed during an event celebrating the completion of the steel structure construction on the new $68 million Wayne and Joan Webber Emergency and Trauma Center, Tuesday, March 26....

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Pennsylvania lawmaker facing sex assault claim quits House

The Bradford Era 19 Mar 2019

HARRISBURG, Pa ... Republican state Rep ... He's citing the best interests of his family, district residents and his own health ... +13 ... Tower Hill celebrating centennial with a trip across the pond ... Joan Myers Brown's influence spreads from Vegas to Broadway ... .......

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Showboat owner eyes return of casino at Atlantic City site

The Bradford Era 18 Mar 2019

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The owner of Atlantic City's Showboat hotel says he wants to return casino gambling to the Boardwalk property ... +5 ... Joan Myers Brown's influence spreads from Vegas to Broadway ... Tower Hill celebrating centennial with a trip across the pond ... .......