Tui St. George Tucker

Lorraine ( Tui) St. George Tucker ( born November 25, 1924 in Fullerton, California, † April 21, 2004 in Boone, North Carolina) was an American composer and flutist.

She was born in Fullerton, Orange County, California and visited the Eagle Rock High School in the North East of Los Angeles in the state of California. Your native of New Zealand mother called Lorraine for a living in their home bird " Tui". 1941 Made Tui at the Eagle Rock High School graduate. From 1941 to 1944 she attended Occidental College in Los Angeles. In 1946 she moved to New York City where she worked as a composer, conductor and recorder player. Her works show techniques of micro- tonality, jazz - influences and influences of early music. It has dedicated recorders designed with extra grip holes and its own fingerings that allowed the playing of quarter tones. Indian Summer: Three Microtonal anti Phones on Psalm text for two voices baritone and chamber ensemble, for example, combines the use of quarter-tones with a Latin text.

From 1947 to 1970, she spent the summer as a musical director of a summer camp for boys, Camp Catawba, near Boone and Blowing Rock, North Carolina, on the present site of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The pianist Grete Sultan worked here as "Music Counselor". In addition to long stays in New York City Tui St. George Tucker lived on the grounds of Camp Catawba, which she had in 1985, inherited from her partner Vera Lachmann, the founder of the camp. Here she died in 2004.

Her works have been performed by musicians such as Grete Sultan, Loretta Goldberg, Douglas Miller, Jens Barnieck, Pete Rose or the Kohon Quartet.

Discography

• Indian Summer: Three Microtonal Antiphon on Psalm text. LP. Greenville, Maine: Opus One, [ 1984 ?].
• String Quartet Number One. LP. Greenville, Maine: Opus One, [ 1986 ?].
• Oh dear heart of Jesus. CD. Harriman, New York. Spectrum, 1988 ( Title of disc: Buxtehude, Moondog & Co., Performed By Paul Jordan, Schuke organ. )
• Second Piano Sonata, "The Peyote. " CD. Greenville, Maine: Opus One, [ 1991 ?]. ( Title of CD: Soundbridge, Performed by pianist Loretta Goldberg. )
• The Music of Tui St. George Tucker ( 1998). Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Centaur.