Robert Moran
Robert Moran ( born January 8, 1937 in Denver, Colorado) is an American composer.
After Moran had studied with Hans Apostles in Vienna and then with Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud, he entered the mid-1960s as co-founder of the " San Francisco New Music Ensemble " at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in appearance. Soon after, he moved as a staff composer at the invitation of the German government to West Berlin. In 1977 he returned to the U.S., where he currently lives in Philadelphia.
Work
For the purposes of the Community experience with his interpreters Moran wrote a series of graphically notated scores, although control structure elements, but the performers zuwiesen a uniquely creative role in the 60s. In addition, Moran has " performance art " events composed and organized, so for example in August 1969: " Thirty Nine Minutes for Thirty Nine cars " - a misleading title for a work in which 100,000 performers and almost the whole downtown San Francisco were involved - or " Hallelujah" ( April 1971 ) for 70,000 residents Bethlehem (Pennsylvania ) and 20 marching bands, 40 church choirs, gospel groups, etc. His third and last city composition " Pachelbel promenade" - for various instrumental groups including Styrian folk music and boys' choir, created for the city of Graz in Austria.
He composed five operas, including " Juniper Tree" in collaboration with Philip Glass and " Desert of Roses " for the Houston Grand Opera, "From the Towers of the Moon" for the Minnesota Opera, and the chamber opera " Dracula Diary". In addition, numerous choral works have emerged. Among them: "The Eternal Hour" for any number of orchestras and choirs; "Seven Sounds unseen " for 20 solo voices to texts by John Cage or the Requiem " Chant du Cygne ", based on the last words Mozart.
His work first performed in Munich in 2001 "Voices of the last seal " to a text by King Ludwig II appears in October 2004 for the first time at the small U.S. label INNOVA on CD.
Dates
- March 20, 2007: Concert performance of the opera " The Juniper Tree" at New York's Lincoln Center