Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1938 June 9 | Born in New York City |
1954 | Won New York Philharmonic Young Composers Award |
1958-1959, 1961 | Won Bearns Prize |
1959, 1961-1963 | Won BMI Student Composer Award |
1961 | Earned Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from Columbia University |
1962 | Co-founded the Group for Contemporary Music with Harvey Sollberger and Nicolas Roussakis |
1962-1966 | Trustee of Bennington Composers Conference |
1962-1989 | Board of Directors for Composers Recordings, Inc. |
1963 | Earned Master of Arts in Music degree from Columbia University |
1964 | Composed Chamber Concerto for Flute and Ten Players Library of Congress Koussevitzky Foundation commission for Chamber Concerto for Oboe and Ten Players (completed 1966) |
1964-1971 | Academic appointment at Columbia University |
1967 | Won American Academy of Arts and Letters Award |
1968 | Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship |
1968-1972 | Member of editorial board for Perspectives of New Music |
1970 | Awarded Pulitzer Prize in Music for Time's Encomium Received Creative Arts Award Citation from Brandeis University |
1970, 1972 | Received Koussevitzky International Recording Award Special Citation |
1971-1979 | Academic appointment at the Manhattan School of Music |
1972 | Won Guggenheim Fellowship Composed Concerto for amplified violin and orchestra |
1975 | Composed The W. of Babylon with a libretto by Renaud Bruce Composed Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky |
1976 | Won Creative Artists Public Service Award |
1979 | Book Simple Composition published |
1979-1982 | Awarded Rockefeller Foundation Grant |
1980 | Composed The Blue Bamboula |
1984-1986 | President of American Composers Orchestra |
1984-2005 | Academic appointment at Rutgers University |
1984 | Library of Congress Koussevitzky Foundation commission for Concertino (completed 1985) |
1985 | Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters Awarded MacArthur Foundation Fellowship |
1985-1986 | Met partner Howard Stokar in San Francisco |
1985-1989 | Composer in Residence at the San Francisco Symphony |
1988 | Library of Congress McKim Fund commission for Sonata for violin and piano |
1989 | Composed Genesis |
1990 | Composer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome |
1991 | Composed Delight of the Muses |
1992 | Joined Meet the Composer Board of Trustees |
1993 | Composer in Residence at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival |
1997 | Composed Symphony Seven |
2004 | Premiere of Haroun and the Sea of Stories with a libretto by James Fenton, based on a story by Salman Rushdie |
2006 | Composed Eighth Symphony |
2008 | Composed Time Regained for piano and orchestra |
2012 June 11 | Married partner Howard Stokar |
2012 | Premiere of Brokeback Mountain with a libretto by Annie Proulx |
2020 March 11 | Died in New York City from injuries sustained in a fall in September 2019 |