Webster A. Young

Webster A. Young is an American opera and ballet composer.

Young had composition lessons with Samuel Barber and Charles Jones. He became known in the 1980s as a composer of ten ballets and thus is the most significant American ballet composer of the time. In the documentary Two for Ballet ballet expert David Vaughan presented these ballets and Young's collaboration with the choreographer Eric hyrst.

Since the early 1990s he composed five operas, including two ( The Sun Also Rises, 1996, Madrid, 1998) based on the stories of Ernest Hemingway. In addition, Young wrote, inter alia, a symphony (1982 ), a piano concerto, a string suite as well as works for piano, violin and guitar solo. Since 1998 he has been artistic director of the Long Iceland Opera.

Works

• Antigone Incidental Music
• Le Peintre de Matadors, Ballet
• Summer Ballet
• Album, Ballet
• Polonaise, Pas de Deux
• Two Ballet Scenes
• Vintage, Ballet
• Tango, Ballet Suite
• The Judgement of Paris, Ballet
• Waltzes, Ballet
• Air for Strings, Ballet
• The vendor, Ballet
• The Wrong Party, opera, 1994
• The Sun Also Rises, opera, 1996
• Madrid, opera, 1997
• Stocks, Bonds, and Doggerel, opera, 2000
• As You Like It, opera by William Shakespeare, 2002