Playlist, reel 1:"Fantasy for Violincello and Piano" by Rodger Vaughan, "Sonata for Two Pianos" by Shirley Munger, "Duo for Two Trumpets" by Herbert Bielawa, and "Theme and 14 Variations" by Frederick Lesemann, reel 2: "Fantasy for Piano" by Donald Aird, "Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano" by David Cohen, and "Sextet for Piano and Woodwinds" by Harold Owen. Playlist, The Student Composers Symposium was one of several events and festivals which Ingolf Dahl recorded. Dahl (June 9, 1912 - August 6, 1970) was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943. In 1945 he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he taught for the rest of his life. In 1952 he was appointed the first head of the Tanglewood Study Group, a program that targeted not professionals but "the intelligent amateur and music enthusiast, also the general music student and music educator." His most prominent students included the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the composers Harold Budd and David Cope. In 1957 he co-directed the Ojai Music Festival in partnership with Aaron Copland and served as its Music Director from 1964 to 1966. Among Dahl's honors were a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1951, two Huntington Hartford Fellowships, an Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Southern California, the ASCAP Stravinsky Award, and a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954. The four student composers in this recording all went on to become well-known composers.
Type
sound
Format
Original 1/4 inch audio tape
Form/Genre
Classical music
Extent
2 Tapes of 2
Identifier
calasus_00004_t1; calasus_00004_t2
Subject
Music--20th century Composers University of California, Berkeley University of Southern California
Time Period
1961-04-28/1961-04-29
Place
Berkeley (Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.)
Provenance
University of Southern California, USC Libraries, Special Collections California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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