John Eaton (composer)

John Eaton ( born March 30, 1935 in Bryn Mawr / Pennsylvania) is an American composer.

Eaton studied 1953-1959 at Princeton University composition with Milton Babbitt, Edward Cone, Earl Kim and Roger Sessions, musicology at Arthur Mendel and Oliver Strunk and piano with Erich Itor Kahn, Frank Sheridan, Edward helmsman and Louise Strunsky.

From 1959 to 1971 Eaton was in North and South America concerts and lectures on behalf of the United States Information Agency ( USIA ). He also worked from 1953 to 1971 as a jazz pianist and performer of new music and played in the 1970's synthesizer. In this capacity, he contributed to premieres of works by Larry Austin, Leslie Bassett, Niccolò Castiglioni, Joel Chadabe, Donald Martino, Robert Moevs and William O. Smith. In 1976 he published the book Involvement with Music: New Music since 1950.

From 1971 to 1991 Eaton was a professor of music at Indiana University and artistic director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music. After that, he was until his retirement in 2001 professor at the University of Chicago.

Eaton is one of the most important opera composers of the United States in the present. He also worked intensively with electroacoustic and microtonal music. For his compositions, he has won many awards. So he got ten times prices of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ), 32 BMI Awards, three times the Prix de Rome and two Guggenheim Fellowships. In 1990 he was MacArthur Fellow.

The composer is not to be confused with the eponymous jazz pianist ( b. 1934 ).

Works

  • Song Cycle on Holy Sonnets of John Donne, 1956
  • Variations for Piano, 1957
  • Ma Barker, opera ( libretto by Arthur Gold), 1957-1958
  • Tertullian Overture for Orchestra, 1958
  • String Quartet No.. 1, 1958
  • Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, 1959
  • Encore Piece for Flute and Piano, 1959
  • Three Epigrams for Clarinet and Piano, 1960
  • Concert Piece for Clarinet and Piano, 1960
  • Adagio and Allegro for Flute, Oboe and String Orchestra, 1960
  • Concert Music for Solo Clarinet, 1961
  • Heracles, opera ( libretto by Michael Fried by Sophocles and Seneca ), 1961-1964
  • Theme and Variations for Flute, 1964
  • Songs for R.P.B. (Text by Hart Crane, Richard Palmer Blackmur ), 1964
  • Microtonal Fantasy for Two Pianos, 1965
  • Concert Piece No.. 2 for Synthesizer, 1966
  • Thoughts on Rilke, 1966
  • Myshkin, opera ( libretto by Patrick Creagh by Fyodor Dostoevsky ), 1966-1971
  • Soliloquy for Synthesizer, 1967
  • Vibrations for flute, two oboes and two clarinets, 1967
  • Five Thoughts for Sunny for Trumpet, 1967
  • Blind Man's Cry (Text by Tristan Corbier ), 1968
  • Duet for Synthesizer, 1968
  • Concert Piece for synthesizer and orchestra, 1968
  • Study for Viola and Two Tape Recorder, 1970
  • Mass for soprano, five mixed voices, clarinet, piano, two percussionists and Digital System, 1970, 1997
  • Sonority Movement: In the Cave of the Sybil for Flute and Harp, 1971
  • Piano Trio: In Memoriam Mario Cristini for Violin, Cello and Piano, 1971
  • The Three Graces, theaters piece ( text by David Anderson) for two sopranos, mezzo- soprano, actor and synthesizer, 1972
  • Ajax for baritone and instrumental ensemble, 1972
  • The Lion and Androcles, children's opera ( libretto by Eugene Walter, David Anderson according to Aulus Gellius ), 1973
  • Guillen Songs ( text by Giorgi Guillen ), 1974
  • Oro ( text by Matthias Bomhard ), 1974
  • Land of Lampedusa (Text with Marilyn Perry ), 1974
  • Lullaby for Estela ( text by Patrick Creagh ), 1975
  • Emily Dickinson Song, 1975
  • Variants for double bass, 1975
  • Transformations for synthesizers and symphony orchestra, 1975
  • Duo for soprano, mixed chorus and piano, 1977
  • Danton and Robespierre, opera ( libretto by Patrick Creagh ), 1978
  • The Cry of Clytaemnestra, opera ( libretto by Patrick Creagh after Aeschylus ), 1979-1980
  • Symphony No.. 2 for large orchestra, 1981
  • Burlesca for Tuba and Piano, 1981
  • A Greek Vision (Text Angelos Sikelianos ), 1981
  • The Tempest, opera ( libretto by Andrew Porter by William Shakespeare) .1983-1985
  • Duo for Julian and Estela for Violin (s ) and Cello, 1984
  • Big Aerobics for Violin, 1985
  • Remembering Rome Symphony for 22 or more Strings, 1986
  • Ars Poetica ( song cycle by William Butler Yeats ), 1986
  • Songs of Despair ( song cycle on James Joyce ), 1987
  • A Little Love Song for Flute and Piano, 1987
  • String Quartet No.. 2, 1987
  • Four Miniatures for Tenor Saxophone, 1987
  • The Reverend Jim Jones, opera ( libretto: James Reston Junior ), 1988
  • Fantasy Romance for Cello and Piano, 1989
  • Peer Gynt, incidental music to the play by Henrik Ibsen, 1990
  • Overture for the Dedication of a House (texts by Margarita Peña, Federico Campbell, Hernán Lavin Cerda, Héctor Valdés ), 1990
  • Two plaudits for Ralph for flute, oboe and cello, 1991
  • A Packet for Emile and Bill (Text by Emile Snyder ), 1991
  • Notes on Moonlight ( song-cycle, text by Federico García Lorca, Wallace Stevens, Leopoldo Lugones, Charles Baudelaire, William Butler Yeats ), 1991
  • Trumpet Voluntary ( text by Geoffrey Chaucer ), 1991
  • Genesis ... for Eaton - Moog Multiple - Touch - Sensitive Keyboard, 1992
  • Let's Get This Show on the Road: an Alternative View of ' Genesis ', opera ( libretto by Eugene Walter ), 1993
  • Songs of Desperation and Comfort (texts by John Donne, Patrick Creagh, William Shakespeare, Tristan Corbier ), 1993
  • Humanities (Text Michaeli Ranchetti ), 1994
  • Salome 's Flea Circus, Music for the play, for clarinet and piano, 1994
  • Don Quixote, music for the play by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1994
  • Golk, Opera ( Libretto: Richard Stern ), 1995
  • Golk Sonatina for oboe and piano, 1995
  • Ad Luciam Beatricem, 1995;
  • 3 Designs for Solo Clarinet, 1996
  • Travelling with Gulliver, music for the play by Estela Eaton ( by Jonathan Swift ), 1997
  • El Divino Narciso, cantata (Text with Nelda Nelson to Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz ), 1998
  • Sor Juana Songs, 1998
  • Tocotín (Text of Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz ), 1998
  • Sor Juana 's Dreams, 1999
  • Elegy for Jane (Text by Theodore Roethke ), 1999
  • Antigone, opera ( libretto by Nicholas Rudall by Sophocles ), 1999
  • Youth, dramatic operas Cantata ( libretto: Estela Eaton ), 2000
  • Footnotes for two bass clarinets, 2000
  • Inasmuch ..., opera ( libretto: Estela Eaton to Eugene Walter ), 2002
  • Dirge without Music (Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay ), 2002
  • Vespers for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, and instrumental ensemble, 2002
  • Threnody for Paisan, 2003
  • String Quartet No.. 3, 2003
  • King Lear, opera ( libretto: Laura Bates by William Shakespeare), 2003-04
  • American composer
  • Pianist
  • Born in 1935
  • Man
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