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American composer Michael Torke (born September 21 1961 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), studied at a Eastman School of Music and at Yale University, and writes accessible music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Another time described as a post-minimalist, his most postminimal piece is 4 Byword, where a syllable for every pitch is fixed & variations in the melody create streams, lakes, and wells throughout of nonsensical words. More works therein style include Book of Byword & Song of Isaiah. His virtually all popular operate is probably Javelin, which he composed within 1994, commissioned per Atlanta Committee for the Olympics in celebration of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's 50th day of remembrance year, inside conjunction by having a 1996 Summer Olympics. Accredited by Disney and Michael Eisner for the New York Philharmonic's Millennium Celebration, he penned Four Seasons, an oratorio for chorus and orchestra celebrating various aspects of the months. A 2002 ballet, The Contract, by using choreography by James Kudelkthe & music by Torke, was a smash profits. It is presently at operate in an additional ballet, An Italian Straw Hat, placed to premiere within Canada in 2005. The recent plan for the Future York City Operthe fell across, leading him to produce a musical comedy instead. The synaesthete, he is the composer of numerous pieces (Bright Blue Music, Ecstatic Orange) which include colour in a titles, late manufactured into the suite Color Music. More pieces include Rust (1989), influenced by rap & disco, Telephone directory (1985, 1995), Adjustable Wrench, & Ash (1989) & Mass (1990), which received critical maulings for their unembarrassed link to to the style of Beethoven & Mendelssohn. Around 2003, he created his own record label, Ecstatic Records, in which he re-freed the placed of sestet Nineties Videos which were put away from print per currently out-of-business Argo Records.
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Classical Net - Composers: Torke Picture, biography, list of works, recordings, performances, interview, news, and program notes. Kalvos & Damian: Michael Torke Audio files and recordings. Michael Torke - 1961 U.S.A. Biography and discussion of 'Rust' (1989). Boosey & Hawkes: Michael Torke Picture, biography, an introduction to Torke's music by Mark Swed, worklist, news, performances, recordings, and sound samples. |
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