William Bolcom (Composer)
Born: 26th May 1938, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A
Nationality: American
William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. He taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973 until 2008. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.
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Interview,
Marc-André Hamelin on the Rags of William Bolcom
The pianist talks about his recently-released recording of rags by William Bolcom, the revivalist craze that Bolcom spearheaded, and his own relationship with an indefatigable veteran of the American composing scene.
Recording of the Week,
Marc-André Hamelin performs William Bolcom's complete piano rags
The Canadian pianist brings the 1960s' great ragtime revival into the present with a new recording of the complete rags of one of its leading lights.
Popular Genres: Bolcom
Orchestral
Chamber
Instrumental
Vocal
Popular Works: Bolcom
- 9 Bagatelles (3)
- Amor (12)
- At the last lousy moments of love (2)
- Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1-4 (8)
- Can't sleep (2)
- Cello Sonata (2)
- Epithalamium (3)
- Fields of Flowers (4)
- First Symphony for Band (2)
- Four Cabaret Songs (2)
- Four Violin Sonatas (2)
- Free Fantasia on 'O Zion, Haste' and 'How Firm a Foundation' (from Gospel Preludes - Book Four) (3)
- Fur (Murray the Furrier) (2)
- George (6)
- Ghost Rags (3) (3)
- I will breathe a mountain (2)
- Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise (3)
- Neighbors on this frosty tide (Carol) (2)
- Never more will the wind (3)
- New York Lights (2)
- Night, Make My Day (2)
- O close the curtain (2)
- Orphée-Sérénade (3)
- Over the Piano (6)
- Raggin' Rudi (3)
- Recuerdos (7)
- Song of Black Max (7)
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) (3)
- Surprise! (3)
- Symphony No. 5 (3)
- The Actor (3)
- The Brooklyn Dodge (4)
- The Garden of Eden (7)
- The Graceful Ghost Rag (14)
- The Mask (2)
- Three Rags (2)
- Toothbrush time (5)
- Twelve New Etudes (4)
- Violin Sonata No. 2 (3)
- Waitin' (7)
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