Robert Ward (composer)
Robert Ward ( * September 13, 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, † April 2, 2013 in Durham, North Carolina) was an American composer.
Career
Ward studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester at the Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers, then at the Juilliard School of Music with Frederick Jacobi and Albert Stoessel and finally at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland. From 1946 to 1956 he taught at the Juilliard School and Columbia University. Until 1967 he was a staff member of the publisher Galaxy Music Corporation, then president of the North Caroline School of Arts.
He composed, among others seven operas, large and small choral works, five symphonies, an overture, a piano, a saxophone and a violin concerto and chamber music. For the opera The Crucible, he was awarded the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Music Critic's Citation. He received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he is a member of the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Works
- Vocal works Concord Hymn for mixed choir
- Consider Well God's Ways for mixed chorus and bass soloist
- Earth Shall Be Fair for mixed choir, mixed choir and children's choir and solo soprano and orchestra
- I Hail This Land for mixed choir, band and piano
- Images of God
- In His Last Days Jesus Came to Jerusalem for mixed choir, soprano and organ
- Let Us Heed the Voice Within for mixed choir and organ
- Sacred Canticles for SATB choir, trumpet, percussion and keyboard
- Sweet Freedom 's Song for mixed chorus and piano
- That Wondrous Night of Christmas Eve for mixed choir
- When Christian Rode Into Jerusalem for mixed choir, soprano and organ
- With rue my heart is invite for mixed choir
- Would You Be Glad for mixed choir, children's choir and organ
- Arias for Baritone
- Ballad from ' Pantaloon ' for high voice
- Hymn to the Night for soprano
- Love's Seasons hoge for Voice and Piano
- Sacred Songs for Pantheists for soprano and orchestra
- Hymn to the Night for soprano
- Jonathan and the Gingery Snare for narrator and orchestra
- Abelard & Heloise, opera
- Claudia Legare, opera
- The Crucible, opera
- He Who Gets Slappped ( Pantaloon ), opera
- Lady Kate, Opera
- Roman Fever, opera
- Bath County Rhapsody for string quartet and piano
- Lamentation and Scherzo Piano gür
- Celebrations of God in Nature for Organ
- The Promised Land for organ and community
- Serenade for Mallarmé for Flute, Viola, Cello and Piano
- Raleigh Divertimento for Wind Quintet
- Fantasia for Brass Choir and Tympani
- Appalachian Ditties and Dances for Violin and Piano
- Dialogues for Violin, Cello and Piano
- Second Sonata for Violin and Piano
- Arioso for Viola and Piano
- Tarantelle for viola and piano Cellound
- Arioso for Cello and Piano
- String Quartet No.1
- Echoes of America for Clarinet, Cello and Piano Trio
- Antiphony for Winds
- Fiesta Processional for Brass
- Four Abstractions for Band for Winds
- Jubilation, An Overture for Winds
- Night Fantasy for Winds
- Prairie Overture for Winds
- Concerto for Piano & Orchestra
- Concerto for Tenor Saxophone & Orchestra
- By the Way of Memories for orchestra
- Concerto for Violin & Orchestra
- Dialogues for Violin, Cello and Orchestra or Piano
- Euphony for Orchestra
- Festive Ode for Orchestra ( Orchestral Score);
- Hymn and Celebration for Orchestra
- Invocation and Toccata for orchestra
- Symphony No.1
- Symphony No.2
- Symphony No.3
- Symphony No.4
- Fifth Symphony: Canticles of America
Swell
- E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Robert Ward
- Alfred Baumgartner Propylaea world of music. The composers, Volume 5, 1989, ISBN 3549078358, pp. 495-96
- Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
- American composer
- University teachers (Columbia University)
- University teachers ( Juilliard School)
- Pulitzer Prize winner
- Americans
- Born 1917
- Died in 2013
- Man