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Larry Bitensky (born 1966 in New York, New York) is an American composer who has written for a variety of genres, including piano, chamber ensembles, orchestra, and wind ensemble.
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Larry Bitensky (born 1966 in New York, New York) is an American composer who has written for a variety of genres, including piano, chamber ensembles, orchestra, and wind ensemble.
Bitensky earned a DMA in composition at Cornell University and an MM in composition at Ithaca College. His primary composition teachers include Steven Stucky, Dana Wilson, Roberto Sierra, and Karel Husa. He also studied piano with Stephen Drury at the New England Conservatory of Music where he earned a B.M. in piano performance.
Bitensky's music has been described as "extraordinary sensitive and beautiful" and "speaking directly from the heart" and his works have been performed throughout North America and Europe. Some of his works have also been performed by the United States Marine Band.
He is currently the Charles T. Hazelrigg Associate Professor of Music at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he teaches music theory, composition, aural skills, and world music. [1]
Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay, "Music as a Gradual Process", by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." To do so, his music employs the technique of phase shifting, in which a phrase is slightly altered over time, in a flow that is clearly perceptible to the listener.
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