Critics from around the world came to Ireland to weigh in on the opera's European Premiere in October
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National Medal of Arts, Pulitzer Prize, and Grammy Award-winner William Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer of chamber, operatic, vocal, choral, cabaret, ragtime, and symphonic music.
He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan's School of Music in 1973, was named the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Composition in 1994, and retired in 2008 after 35 years. Bolcom won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1988 for 12 New Etudes for Piano, and his setting of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience on the Naxos label won four Grammy Awards in 2005.
As a pianist Bolcom has performed and recorded his own work frequently in collaboration with his wife and musical partner, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris. Cabaret songs, show tunes, and American popular songs of the 20th century have been their primary specialties in both concerts and recordings. Their 25th album, "Autumn Leaves," was released in 2015.
In 2018, nine world premieres of Bolcom works commemorated William Bolcom's 80th birthday.
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Bolcom/Corigliano 2018 Birthday Tribute - "An Unforgettable Experience"
January 11 concert in New York City began William Bolcom's year of 80th birthday celebrations
Read moreBolcom & Morris to be honored with Lifetime Achievement Medal on February 11
Arts Alliance Medals for Arts, Sciences & Humanities event celebrates "outstanding and sustained artistic and creative accomplishments within the arts"
Awarded annually, The Arts Alliance Medals for Arts, Sciences & Humanities honor and celebrate the extraordinary contributions and accomplishments of artists, creatives, individuals. The Lifetime Achievement Medal is presented in recognition of outstanding and sustained artistic and creative accomplishments within the arts, sciences and/or humanities receiving national and or international acclaim.
Medal recipients are celebrated for increasing public awareness of the arts + creative industries in the greater Ann Arbor area and beyond. Medalists make their mark through their leadership, philanthropy and accomplishments setting the standard for excellence and serving as the example for others to follow.
Read more"William Bolcom: Piano Music" Producer Judith Sherman gets a Grammy nod
Judith Sherman, producer of “William Bolcom: Piano Music” on the Naxos label, has been nominated once again for Producer Of The Year, Classical in the 2019 Grammy Awards.
Read more“Dinner At Eight” Slated for European Public Broadcast on November 3
For the very first time, Irish public broadcast channel RTÉ will air the Wexford Opera Festival, and this will include a November 3 radio broadcast in that country of the opera.
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Performed by University of Michigan Saxophone Ensemble
Wexford Festival Opera: Dinner at Eight
Wexford Festival Opera, National Opera House, High St, Ferrybank South, Wexford, Y35 FEP3
Wexford Festival Opera presents Dinner at Eight; Music by William Bolcom. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. David Agler, Music Director.
Wexford Festival Opera: Dinner at Eight
Wexford Festival Opera, National Opera House, High St, Ferrybank South, Wexford, Y35 FEP3
Wexford Festival Opera presents Dinner at Eight; Music by William Bolcom. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. David Agler, Music Director.
The New York Virtuoso Singers conducted by Harold Rosenbaum. To celebrate The New York Virtuoso Singers’ 25th anniversary 6 years ago, 25 composers were commissioned to write short pieces for them. Five of them, plus another by Katherine Hoover, will be performed tonight to celebrate all six of the composers’ 80th birthdays this year.
Wexford Festival Opera: Dinner at Eight
Wexford Festival Opera, National Opera House, High St, Ferrybank South, Wexford, Y35 FEP3
Wexford Festival Opera presents Dinner at Eight; Music by William Bolcom. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. David Agler, Music Director.
Wexford Festival Opera: Dinner at Eight
Wexford Festival Opera, National Opera House, High St, Ferrybank South, Wexford, Y35 FEP3
Wexford Festival Opera presents Dinner at Eight; Music by William Bolcom. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. David Agler, Music Director.
Bolcom: Quintet No. 1 for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
The fabled Emerson String Quartet is joined by the formidable pianist Shai Wosner for collaborative works by a pair of prolific geniuses: Mozart and Bolcom. Presented by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
European Premiere: Dinner At Eight
Wexford Festival Opera, National Opera House, High St, Ferrybank South, Wexford, Y35 FEP3
Wexford Festival Opera presents European premiere of Dinner at Eight; Music by William Bolcom. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. David Agler, Music Director.
A performance in the "Americana '18" series presented by St. John's Smith Square in London.
Steven Gross, French horn; Philip Ficsor, violin; Constantine Finehouse, piano
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Steven Gross, French horn; Philip Ficsor, violin; Constantine Finehouse, piano
The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra kicks off its 90th Season with a commissioned work from William Bolcom, who has already found a way to have fun with the possibilities!
Lucy Schaufer & Huw Watkins: The Class of 1938
Bennett Gordon Hall, 201 St Johns Ave, Highland Park, IL 60035
William Bolcom, John Corigliano, and other composers celebrating their 80th birthdays this year will be honored at this Ravinia Festival concert.
Bolcom: Violin Concerto
Cabrillo Festival, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Phillippe Quint, violin and Cristian Macelaru, conductor
The esteemed FIDELIO TRIO visits Salem in the second of our offerings of chamber music in historic contexts. For this very special event the Fidelio Trio presents a program of stunning beauty including Gabriel Fauré's Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120; the New England premiere of William Bolcom Piano Trio (2014) in celebration of the composer's 80th birthday year; and the sumptuous Piano Trio in B flat major D898 by Franz Schubert.
A recital featuring the Fidelio Trio: Darragh Morgan, violin; Adi Tal, cello; and Mary Dullea, piano In works by Bolcom, Faure, and Schubert. With support from Culture Ireland.
Songs by WB + Graceful Ghost Rag
Buxton Festival - Pavillion Arts Centre, 22 St John's Rd, Buxton SK17 6XN, UK
Lucy Schaufer, soprano; Huw Watkins, piano; Jennifer Langridge, cello
Grant Park Festival: Sym. #4 and “Machine” from Sym. #5
Grant Park Music Festival, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago, Il
Guest conductor Dennis Russell Davies pairs Tchaikovsky’s acclaimed Fifth Symphony with two works by American composer, William Bolcom, in celebration of the composer’s 80th birthday. Grant Park Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, Guest Conductor; Kelley O'Connor, Mezzo Soprano; Sym. #4 and “Machine” from Sym. #5.
Grant Park Festival: Sym. #4 and “Machine” from Sym. #5
Grant Park Music Festival, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago, Il
Guest conductor Dennis Russell Davies pairs Tchaikovsky’s acclaimed Fifth Symphony with two works by American composer, William Bolcom, in celebration of the composer’s 80th birthday. Grant Park Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, Guest Conductor; Kelley O'Connor, Mezzo Soprano; Sym. #4 and “Machine” from Sym. #5.
"The Class of 1938" - Lucy Schaufer mezzo-soprano; Huw Watkins piano
One link connects the composers in Lucy Schaufer’s show – they were all born in 1938. The American mezzo celebrates their 80th birthdays and their music’s dazzling diversity, complete with a John Corigliano world première.