Artists at Work
Date: 2/7/2008; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: Room 2022
202 S. Thayer St.
Ann Arbor
Host Department: Institute for the Humanities
William Bolcom, Composer, School of Music, Theatre and Dance, University of Michigan
“A Double Quartet”
Detailed Information
Pulitzer-prize-winning composer William Bolcom will talk about his new Double Quartet (2007). Co-commissioned by the University Musical Society, it will be prèmiered at 8 pm, on February 9, in Rackham Auditorium, in a concert featuring the Guarneri String Quartet and the Johannes String Quartet. For tickets, go to www.ums.org.
William Bolcom is Ross Lee Finney Distinguished Professor of Composition in the U-M School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America and honored with multiple Grammy Awards for his ground-breaking setting of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Bolcom is a composer of cabaret songs, concertos, sonatas, operas, symphonies and more.
Free and open to the public
Contact Information
Doretha Coval
humin@umich.edu
734-936-3518
Institute for the Humanities
University of Michigan
College Literature, Science, and the Arts
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