Arthur Cunningham

Arthur Cunningham ( born November 11, 1928 in Piermont, New York, † March 31, 1997 in Nyack, New York) was an American composer.

Cunningham was familiar from early on with both jazz and classical music. He studied at the Metropolitan School of Music in New York classical composition with Wallingford Riegger and jazz piano with Teddy Wilson and John Mehegan. At Fisk University, he studied classical piano with William Duncan Allen as well as music theory and composition with John Work. He continued his studies at the Juilliard School of Music continues with Peter Mennin, Peter Wilhousky, Margaret Hillis, Norman Lloyd and Henry Brant and at Columbia Teachers College in Murphy Church.

He served in the U.S. Army Special Services, and then was a double bass player in the Suburban Symphony Orchestra in Rockland County. He served as musical director of the summer theater and directed in 1964, the Rockland County Playhouse. His breakthrough as a composer came with the orchestral piece Concentrics, a work commissioned by Benjamin Steinberg and the Symphony of the New World, which premiered in 1969 at the Lincoln Center. He composed Bühnenewerke as The Beauty Part and Violetta and songs like This Love is True Love. He also worked as a jazz pianist and vocal and music teacher.

Works

  • Adagio for Oboe and String Orchestra, 1954
  • Amen for mixed choir, 1962
  • Amen, Amen, for mixed choir, 1965
  • Ballet for jazz and string quartet, 1968
  • Basis for four double basses, 1968
  • Beginner's piano book, 1964
  • By this dying for Flute and Cello
  • Concentrics for chamber orchestra, 1968
  • The cossack for mixed choir, 1964
  • Covenant for Cello and Double Bass, 1972
  • Dialogues for Piano and Orchestra, 1966
  • Dim you mim for oboe and chamber orchestra, 1969
  • Eclatette for Cello, 1969
  • Engrams for piano, 1969
  • Four shadows for piano, 1950
  • Fragment for brass and percussion, 1968
  • From where I stood for mixed choir, 1964
  • Fruitful trees more fruitful are for three -part chorus ( text by George Herbert ), 1965
  • The ginger one for four-part male choir, 1964
  • 2 Haitian play dances for two pianos, 1951
  • Harlem suite, 1972
  • He met her at the Dolphin; Holiday for chorus and piano, 1963
  • His natural grace, opera, 1969
  • House by the sea, opera, 1966
  • Hymn of our Lord at the Last Supper for mixed choir, 1962
  • I am an American for mixed choir
  • In the year seventeen for mixed choir
  • 2 Inventions for two double basses, 1952
  • Into my heart for mixed choir, 1964
  • Jabberwocky for high voice and piano ( text by Lewis Carroll ), 1960
  • Jill Ellen for Guitar, Violin, Viola and Cello, 1975
  • Jubilee songs, 1972
  • The leaden eyed for high voice and piano ( text by Vachel Lindsay ), 1956
  • Let the day begin, 1964
  • Lights across the Hudson for orchestra
  • Litany for the flower children for mixed choir and orchestra, 1972
  • The loveliest of trees for mixed chorus ( text by AE Housman ), 1964
  • Lovey lovey, Mini Opera, 1968
  • Minakesh for Cello and String Orchestra, 1969
  • Moons of Mars suite, 1968
  • Night lights for orchestra, 1955
  • Night song for mixed chorus and orchestra, 1973
  • Octet for percussion, 1968
  • Omnus for string orchestra, 1968
  • Ostrich feathers, musical play for children (Text with Barbara Brenner ), 1964
  • Pale moons rise for mixed choir, 1955
  • Patsy Patch and Susan 's dream, musical comedy for young children, 1963
  • Perimeter for flute, clarinet, vibraphone and double bass, 1965
  • 60 piano pieces, 1966
  • The prince for medium voice and orchestra, 1971
  • Prometheus for double bass and piano and orchestra, 1967
  • Ring out, wild bells for mixed chorus ( text by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ), 1965
  • Septet for woodwind, 1968
  • Serenade for Cello and Piano, 1965
  • Sing, children, sing for mixed choir, 1964
  • Song of songs for voice and piano hoge ( text by Wilfred Owen ), 1951
  • Songs for A midsummer night's dream for high voice and piano, 1967
  • Sugar Hill for cello, two double basses and piano, 1969
  • Sun bird for low voice, guitar and orchestra, 1974
  • Sunday stone for mixed choir and piano or organ
  • Theatre piece for orchestra, 1966
  • Then the cricket sings for mixed choir, 1964
  • This by dying for Flute and Cello, 1968
  • Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Viola, 1952
  • Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello, 1968
  • Trinities for cello and two double basses, 1968
  • Turning of the babies in the bed for medium voice and piano ( text by Paul Laurence Dunbar ), 1951
  • Violet and phospher, 1964
  • Violetta, opera, 1963
  • The Walton statement for Double Bass and Orchestra, 1972
  • The west wind for mixed chorus ( text by John Masefield ), 1962
  • When I was one and twenty for mixed choir, 1963
  • With rue my heart is invite for mixed chorus, 1964

Swell

  • AfriClassical - Arthur Cunningham
  • Arthur Cunningham at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • American composer
  • Born in 1928
  • Died in 1997
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