No. 6. The Hour Glass - Music
No. 6. The Hour Glass by Irving Fine
Irving Fine
Artist Biography For Irving Fine
Irving Gifford Fine December 3 1914 – August 23 1962 Was An American Composer. Fine's Work Assimilated Neo-Classical Romantic And Later Serial Elements. Composer Virgil Thomson Described Fine's "unusual Melodic Grace" While Aaron Copland Noted The "elegance Style Finish And...Convincing Continuity" Of Fine's Music. Fine Was A Member Of A Close-Knit Group Of Boston Composers In The Mid-20th Century Who Were Sometimes Called The "Boston Six" Or "Boston School." Other Members Of The Boston School Included Arthur Berger Leonard Bernstein Aaron Copland Lukas Foss And Harold
Fine Was Born In Boston Massachusetts Where He Studied Piano And Received Both Bachelor's And Master's Degrees From Harvard University Where He Was A Pupil Of Walter Piston. Fine Was A Conducting Pupil Of Serge Koussevitzky Served As Pianist For The Boston Symphony Orchestra And Studied Composition With Nadia Boulanger At The Fontainebleau School Of Music In Paris And At Radcliffe College. From 1939 Until 1950 He Taught Music Theory At Harvard And Conducted Its Glee Club Becoming A Close Associate Of Leonard Bernstein Igor Stravinsky And Aaron Copland. From 1950 He Taught At Brandeis University Where He Was Walter S. Naumburg Professor Of Music And Founded The School Of Creative Arts. Between 1946 And 1957 He Also Taught Composition At The Tanglewood Music Festival In The Berkshires. Irving Fine Died In Natick Massachusetts In August 1962. He Was 47 Years Of Age. The Cause Of Death Was Heart Disease. Among Fine's Compositions Are A Violin Sonata A String Quartet Fantasia For String Trio Music For Piano Partita For Wind Quintet Toccata Concertante For Orchestra Notturno For Strings And Harp Serious Song Subtitled A "lament For String Orchestra" Diversions For Piano And Orchestra And The Symphony 1962 Which Premiered At Tanglewood Less Than Two Weeks Before His Untimely Death Following A Heart Attack Fine Conducted The Premiere When Charles Munch Who Was Originally To Have Conducted Fell Ill . Fine's Choral Works Which Are Frequently Performed Include Two Sets Of Choruses From Alice In Wonderland "Childhood Fables For Grown-Ups " Settings Of Various Poems About His Composer Friends Including Leonard Bernstein Lukas Foss And Harold Shapero The Choral New Yorker The Hour-Glass McCord's Menagerie And Mutability Song Cycles And Others. He Also Created Choral Arrangements Of His Colleague And Friend Aaron Copland's Old American Songs.
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Irving Gifford Fine December 3 1914 – August 23 1962 Was An American Composer. Fine's Work Assimilated Neo-Classical Romantic And Later Serial Elements. Composer Virgil Thomson Described Fine's "unusual Melodic Grace" While Aaron Copland Noted The "elegance Style Finish And...Convincing Continuity" Of Fine's Music. Fine Was A Member Of A Close-Knit Group Of Boston Composers In The Mid-20th Century Who Were Sometimes Called The "Boston Six" Or "Boston School." Other Members Of The Boston School Included Arthur Berger Leonard Bernstein Aaron Copland Lukas Foss And Harold
Fine Was Born In Boston Massachusetts Where He Studied Piano And Received Both Bachelor's And Master's Degrees From Harvard University Where He Was A Pupil Of Walter Piston. Fine Was A Conducting Pupil Of Serge Koussevitzky Served As Pianist For The Boston Symphony Orchestra And Studied Composition With Nadia Boulanger At The Fontainebleau School Of Music In Paris And At Radcliffe College. From 1939 Until 1950 He Taught Music Theory At Harvard And Conducted Its Glee Club Becoming A Close Associate Of Leonard Bernstein Igor Stravinsky And Aaron Copland. From 1950 He Taught At Brandeis University Where He Was Walter S. Naumburg Professor Of Music And Founded The School Of Creative Arts. Between 1946 And 1957 He Also Taught Composition At The Tanglewood Music Festival In The Berkshires. Irving Fine Died In Natick Massachusetts In August 1962. He Was 47 Years Of Age. The Cause Of Death Was Heart Disease. Among Fine's Compositions Are A Violin Sonata A String Quartet Fantasia For String Trio Music For Piano Partita For Wind Quintet Toccata Concertante For Orchestra Notturno For Strings And Harp Serious Song Subtitled A "lament For String Orchestra" Diversions For Piano And Orchestra And The Symphony 1962 Which Premiered At Tanglewood Less Than Two Weeks Before His Untimely Death Following A Heart Attack Fine Conducted The Premiere When Charles Munch Who Was Originally To Have Conducted Fell Ill . Fine's Choral Works Which Are Frequently Performed Include Two Sets Of Choruses From Alice In Wonderland "Childhood Fables For Grown-Ups " Settings Of Various Poems About His Composer Friends Including Leonard Bernstein Lukas Foss And Harold Shapero The Choral New Yorker The Hour-Glass McCord's Menagerie And Mutability Song Cycles And Others. He Also Created Choral Arrangements Of His Colleague And Friend Aaron Copland's Old American Songs. read less
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Fine Was Born In Boston Massachusetts Where He Studied Piano And Received Both Bachelor's And Master's Degrees From Harvard University Where He Was A Pupil Of Walter Piston. Fine Was A Conducting Pupil Of Serge Koussevitzky Served As Pianist For The Boston Symphony Orchestra And Studied Composition With Nadia Boulanger At The Fontainebleau School Of Music In Paris And At Radcliffe College. From 1939 Until 1950 He Taught Music Theory At Harvard And Conducted Its Glee Club Becoming A Close Associate Of Leonard Bernstein Igor Stravinsky And Aaron Copland. From 1950 He Taught At Brandeis University Where He Was Walter S. Naumburg Professor Of Music And Founded The School Of Creative Arts. Between 1946 And 1957 He Also Taught Composition At The Tanglewood Music Festival In The Berkshires. Irving Fine Died In Natick Massachusetts In August 1962. He Was 47 Years Of Age. The Cause Of Death Was Heart Disease. Among Fine's Compositions Are A Violin Sonata A String Quartet Fantasia For String Trio Music For Piano Partita For Wind Quintet Toccata Concertante For Orchestra Notturno For Strings And Harp Serious Song Subtitled A "lament For String Orchestra" Diversions For Piano And Orchestra And The Symphony 1962 Which Premiered At Tanglewood Less Than Two Weeks Before His Untimely Death Following A Heart Attack Fine Conducted The Premiere When Charles Munch Who Was Originally To Have Conducted Fell Ill . Fine's Choral Works Which Are Frequently Performed Include Two Sets Of Choruses From Alice In Wonderland "Childhood Fables For Grown-Ups " Settings Of Various Poems About His Composer Friends Including Leonard Bernstein Lukas Foss And Harold Shapero The Choral New Yorker The Hour-Glass McCord's Menagerie And Mutability Song Cycles And Others. He Also Created Choral Arrangements Of His Colleague And Friend Aaron Copland's Old American Songs. read less
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