Wendell Logan

Wendell Morris Logan ( * November 24, 1940 in Thomson (Georgia ), † 15 June 2010 Oberlin ( Ohio)) was an American jazz musician (clarinet, soprano sax ), composer and university teacher.

Wendell Logan grew up in Thomson, Georgia, taking lessons from his father, an amateur saxophonist. He initially played the trumpet and soprano saxophone, occasionally with the likewise derived from Thomson James Brown. Later he earned a Bachelor of Florida A & M University, where he first heard Igor Stravinsky 's The Firebird, which induced him to study composition. He then earned a master's degree in composition at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale and doctoral degrees in music theory and composition at the University of Iowa. He then served on the faculty of Ball State University, Florida A & M University and Western Illinois University. 1973 brought him Emil Danenberg at Oberlin College, where he was able in 1989 to build a jazz department; He also headed the existing of students and alumni jazz ensemble of the university. Throughout his career, he also worked at the University of California at Berkeley and played with the Black Music Repertory Ensemble and the Chicago Sinfonietta.

In 2001 Logan's larger composition Doxology Opera was: The Doxy Canticles premiered in Chicago; The libretto was written by Paul Carter Harrison. His compositions are influenced by blues, spirituals and European classical music; he wrote, inter alia, an opera, a Requiem and over 200 other works, including Works with prices of the Guggenheim Fellowship ( 1991), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers were supported.

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