Elie Siegmeister
Elie victory Champion ( born January 15, 1909 in New York City; † March 10, 1991 in Manhasset, New York) was an American composer and conductor.
Life
Victory champion was born in 1909 as son of the physician William and his wife Bessie victory champion in New York. Elie was born into a Russian-Jewish immigrant family and was known to the peace activist and anarchist Emma Goldman. From 1921 he attended the Boys High School in Brooklyn and received his first musical training at Leopold Wolfensohn, who also taught Aaron Copland. His friends included the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, the psychiatrist Joseph Wortis and Tamara Berkowitz, granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem.
From 1924 he studied harmony with Seth Bingham, piano with Emil Friedberg ( pupil of Teodor Leszetycki ) and counterpoint with Wallingford Riegger at Columbia University in New York. Friedberger recommended him over Edward helmsman with Arnold Schoenberg. However, victory remained masters on the way to Europe and studied in Paris from 1927 to 1931 with Nadia Boulanger. In 1932 he traveled to Paul Hindemith in Berlin, which he declined as educators.
From 1932 to 1935 he studied conducting with Albert Stoessel then at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1933 he founded the Young Composers Group. Among its members were Irwin Heilner, Israel Citkowitz, Lehman Engel, Jerome Moross, Bernard Herrmann, Arthur Berger and Vivian Fine. In 1933, he traveled to Moscow and visited the composer Grigory Schneerson. From 1933 to 1934 he was one of the Composers Collective ( organized in the Workers Music League) by Henry Cowell, Jacob Schaefer and Leon Charles at. In 1934 he became teacher of music history at Brooklyn College. From 1937 to 1938 he was a lecturer at the New School for Social Research, where he also had contact with Hanns Eisler. In 1938 he became a member of the American Composers Alliance and the American Music Center, the Vice President, he was from 1964 to 1967. In 1952 he became a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
In 1939 he founded the American Ballad Singers, with whom he toured the United States several years. From 1945 to 1946 he collaborated in projects with the American - Soviet Music Society. Other active members were Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Sergei Koussevitzky and Morton Gould. In 1949 he became a lecturer at Hofstra University ( 1966-1976 as composer in residence ) and founded a year later, the Hofstra Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted. After that, he was Composer in Residence at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. In 1970 he traveled to Munich, where the Bavarian Radio, a composer portrait was shot. In 1977 he founded the Kennedy Center 's National Black Music Colloquium and Competition. In 1983 he stayed in Bellagio (Villa Serbelloni ) and Berlin.
In 1999, its 90th anniversary, the Elie victory champion Society was founded.
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Works
Victory maestro composed nine operas and a musical, six symphonies and three symphonic pieces, a clarinet and a flute concerto and other orchestral works, film music ( They came to Cordura by Robert Rossen ), songs and song cycles, chamber music and choral works. His works have been performed by leading orchestras under Leopold Stokowski, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Lorin Maazel and Sergiu Comissiona. So its Western Suite by NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini in 1945 premiered and recorded by the Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel.
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Student
Among his students Stephen Albert, Sy Brandon, Tom Cipullo, Herbert German, Daniel Dorff, Barry Drogin, Naomi printer, Jack Gallagher, Gerald Humel, Lauren Keiser, Stephen Lawrence, Leonard Lehrman, Roger Nierenberg, Joseph Pehrson, Dana Paul Perna, Michael Jeffrey Shapiro and Richard White.