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Tower, Joan

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Tower, Joan (1938– )

US composer. Her music has moved from serial influences to a more impressionistic style.

She studied at Columbia University, New York, with Otto Luening and founded the Da Capo Chamber Players in 1969. She taught at Bard College, New York, from 1972, returning in 1988.

Works

Ensemble

percussion quartet (1963); Breakfast Rhythms for clarinet and five instruments (1975); Petroushskates for ensemble (1980).

Orchestral

Amazon II and Sequoia for orchestra (1979, 1981); Amazon III for chamber orchestra (1983); Music for cello and orchestra (1984); piano concerto (1985); clarinet and flute concertos (1988, 1989); Concerto for Orchestra (1991); violin concerto (1992); Stepping Stones: A Ballet, for orchestra (1993).



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