Stephen Douglas Burton

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Stephen Douglas Burton (born February 24, 1943) is an American composer.

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Life and career

A native of Whittier, California, Burton received his musical education at the Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied from 1960 to 1962, [1] and Peabody Conservatory, from which he received his master's degree in 1974; he studied further at the Salzburg Mozarteum under Hans Werner Henze. From 1970 until 1974 he was on the faculty of the Catholic University of America; [2] beginning in 1973 he taught at George Mason University, from which he retired in 2006. [3] There he became a professor in 1983; [1] he was named the Heritage Chair in Music in 1996. Burton has received commissions from such groups as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre National de France. Active as well in the field of film music, he worked with Gillian Anderson to restore the original scores for the 1922 version of Robin Hood , the 1925 version of Ben-Hur , The Passion of Joan of Arc and the 1923 version of The Ten Commandments ; the last-named score was used when the film reopened Grauman's Egyptian Theater in 1998. [2] As an orchestrator, Burton assisted in the preparation of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Goya before its 1987 premiere. [4] His textbook Orchestration, published in 1982, is popularly used in the teaching of the discipline. [2]

Burton received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969. During his career he has received five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants from the National Opera Institute; the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers; the Myers Foundation; the Kipplinger Foundation; the Dreyfus Foundation; and the Coolidge Foundation. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Burton, Stephen Douglas | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved Sep 4, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 The Grove Dictionary of American Music. OUP USA. January 2013. ISBN   978-0-19-531428-1.
  3. ↑ "Classical Composer". Stephen Douglas Burton. Retrieved Sep 4, 2021.
  4. 1 2 "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Stephen Douglas Burton" . Retrieved Sep 4, 2021.
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