Joelle Wallach

Joelle Wallach ( born June 29, 1946 in New York City ) is an American composer and music educator.

Wallach was born in Morocco. She took lessons in piano, bassoon, violin, voice and music theory at the Preparatory Division at the Juilliard School of Music and studied at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University and John Corigliano at the Manhattan School of Music. She is a visiting professor at the University of North Texas.

1980 gelding won with the choral work On the Beach at Night Alone the First Prize at the Inter- American Music Awards. Your octet From the Forest of Chimneys was premiered by the New York Philharmonic Ensemble for its ten years of existence. For the New York Choral Society, she composed the oratorio Toward a Time of Renewal. Your ballet Glancing Below premiered in 1994 and recorded the following year in the repertoire of the Hartford Ballet. The chamber opera The King's Twelve Moons was played in New York sixteen times. Wallach's String Quartet was nominated in 1997 by the American Composers Alliance for the Pulitzer Prize for composition.

Works

  • The Firefighter 's Prayer for baritone and strings
  • While Hope Remains for mixed choir, chamber orchestra, tenor and speaker
  • Why the Caged Bird Sings for double choir, horn and piano or strings
  • The Night Watch two tiny love songs for high voice and piano or orchestra
  • In Memory the Heart Still Sings for clarinet and chamber orchestra
  • Orison of Ste Theresa for mixed choir, string orchestra and harp
  • Toward a Time of Renewal for chorus, four solo voices and chamber orchestra
  • Where Angels May Lie Down Among Us for chamber orchestra
  • Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing for Cello and Orchestra
  • The Tiger 's Tail for orchestra
  • Psalm XXIII for mixed choir, oboe and strings
  • Moonlight in the Woods and Vacant Cities, lyrical Diptych for Chamber Orchestra
  • Love Letter, ( Postmark San Jose) for Tuba or Euphonium and string orchestra
  • The Night Watch, two songs for high voice and chamber orchestra
  • The King's Twelve Moons, Chamber Opera
  • Simeni Kachotam al Libbecha, Set Me as a Seal Upon Your Heart for mezzo- soprano and chamber orchestra
  • The Assent of the Swallow for chamber orchestra, and narrator
  • Turbulence, Stillness and saltation for chamber orchestra
  • Glimpses for orchestra
  • Glancing Below, Ballet
  • The King's Twelve Moons, Chamber Opera
  • Lo in a Manger for Unisonochor and Organ or Piano
  • Spiritual Speculations for vocal quartet or chamber choir
  • The Clothes of Heaven for vocal quartet or chamber choir
  • THEREFORE for vocal quartet or chamber choir
  • La musica y las estrellas los muertos for mixed choir a cappella
  • Orison of Ste Theresa for mixed choir and string orchestra
  • Three Short Sacred Anthems for high voices a cappella
  • Incantation for mixed choir a cappella
  • Five American Echoes for mixed choir a cappella
  • Midnight Menageries for choir and piano
  • A Green Briar Grace for male choir a cappella
  • A Choral Theopneusty for mixed choir and soloists
  • The Oxen Carol for mixed choir a cappella
  • Quietus for female choir, strings and harp or piano
  • Plaint for a Prince and King of men's voices, brass and percussion
  • Three Whitman Visions for mixed choir a cappella
  • On the Beach at Night Alone for mixed choir a cappella and solo voice
  • 30 Ecumenical Responses for mixed choir a cappella
  • After Alcyon 's Dream for clarinet, viola and piano
  • String Quartet 1999
  • A revisitation 0f Myth four songs for viola, piano and medium voice
  • From the Forest of Chimneys, Octet for Winds and Strings
  • Glancing Below for violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, two percussionists and saxophone
  • String Quartet ( 1995)
  • Where Angels May Lie Down Among Us for chamber ensemble
  • The Tiger's Tail for piano duo
  • String Quartet ( 1986)
  • Organal Voices for vibraphone and bassoon
  • Mourning Madrigals for soprano, tenor, flute and harp
  • Beyond the Shadow of the Rain, Meditation for String Trio
  • Seven Solioquies of Small Birds for clarinet, violin, cello and percussion
  • Sweet Briar Elegies for eight cellos and soprano saxophone or clarinet
  • Sticky Grimaces, Toothy Grins for mallet percussion and piano
  • Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet
  • Sextet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano
  • Three Whitman Songs for medium voice, clarinet, horn and cello or bassoon
  • Piano Trio, A Triad of Blessing
  • Woodwind Quintet, O llama de amor viva
  • Oneiros, the dream for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
  • Yeatsongs of a Fool for voice, string quartet and two percussionists
  • The Kiss of Anima Mundi: a samba of moans and whispers for percussion ensemble
  • Of Honey and Vinegar of for mezzo-soprano and two pianos
  • Quartet for Saxophones ( To The Fore Publishers)
  • Cords for soprano and two double basses
  • Movement for String Quartet
  • Post- Millenial Love Songs for high or medium voice and piano
  • Daughters of Silence, eight songs
  • The Dream of Now, six songs
  • Meow Mix several - songs for voice and piano by and about cats
  • A revisitation of Myth, four songs for viola, piano and medium voice
  • La musica y las estrellas los muertos for vocal quartet
  • Sin mananas, three Spanish songs for medium voice and piano
  • Up into the Silence for solo voice
  • Mourning Madrigals for soprano, tenor, flute and harp
  • The Door Standing Open, four songs for baritone and piano
  • A Camel Lying on My Heart
  • In This My Green, Green World, six green love songs for high voice and piano
  • The Night Watch, two songs for high voice and chamber orchestra or piano
  • Partings and Farewells, seven songs for high voice and piano
  • Songs for Unborn Child on for medium voice and piano
  • Ephemeris, four songs for medium voice and piano
  • Who is that Stranger?
  • Love in the Early Morning, two songs about making love to milkmen for soprano and piano
  • V'erastich li l' olam, a biblical Lieddeslied of Hosea for Two Voices
  • Cantares de los perdis for voice, tuba and Crotales
  • Of Honey and Vinegar of for medium voice and two pianos
  • In a Dark Time for horn and piano or chamber orchestra
  • Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing for cello and piano or orchestra
  • '# Voices of the Iron Harp Piano
  • A Wreath of Silver Birds, Solo Suite for Flute
  • Sweet Briar Elegies for soprano saxophone and piano or cello ensemble
  • Music for Manda for guitar duo
  • Wisps for Piano
  • Moment for Oboe

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  • American composer
  • Music teacher
  • Born in 1946
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