Wayne Barlow

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Wayne Brewster [1] [2] Barlow (b. Elyria, Ohio, September 6, 1912; d. Rochester, NY, December 17, 1996) was an American composer of classical music. He was also a professor of music, organist, and choir director.

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Life and career

Barlow received bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music, majoring in composition and theory and becoming in 1937 the first American to receive a doctorate in music composition. [3] He also studied with Arnold Schoenberg in California, as well as with Myron Schaeffer, the director of the Electronic Music Laboratory at the University of Toronto. [4] [5] He served as a professor at the Eastman School of Music from 1937 to 1978, where he directed the Electronic Music Studio from 1968 to 1978, and also served as Dean of Graduate Studies from 1973 to 1978. From 1978 to 1996 he held the position of Emeritus Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music. His notable students include James Cohn, Lucrecia Kasilag, Samuel Jones, Martin Mailman, Norma Wendelburg, and Don Freund.

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Nuvola apps arts.svg You may hear Wayne Barlow's The Winter's Past for Oboe and String Orchestra performed by Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra and Robert Sprenkle, oboe in 1941 Here on archive.org

Among his best-known compositions is The Winter's Past, for oboe and string orchestra.

He died at the age of 84.

His manuscripts are held by the Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.

Works

Stage
Orchestral
Band or Wind or brass ensemble
Concertante
Chamber music
Piano
Organ
Vocal
Electronic media

Books

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References

  1. ↑ W. Thomas Marrocco and Mary Wallace Davidson, "Barlow, Wayne (Brewster)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001)
  2. ↑ Nicolas Slonimsky, Laura Kuhn, and Dennis McIntire, "Barlow, Wayne (Brewster)", Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, eighth edition, edited by Nicolas Slonimsky and Laura Kuhn (New York: Schirmer Books, 2001).
  3. ↑ "Cominsky Portrait Gallery - Wayne Barlow". www.esm.rochester.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-09-17.
  4. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/q379
  5. ↑ [ dead link ]
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