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Adam Benjamin Silverman (born in 1973, Atlanta, GA) is a composer of contemporary classical music. His works include the opera Korczak's Orphans (to a libretto by Susan Gubernat, based on the life of Polish Holocaust martyr Janusz Korczak), chamber and orchestral music, and music for the theater. With composers Dennis DeSantis, Roshanne Etezady, and Ken Ueno, he founded the Minimum Security Composers Collective. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ...
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In the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. ...
Janusz Korczak Janusz Korczak, real name Henryk Goldszmit (July 22, 1878 or 1879 – August, 1942) was a Polish-Jewish pediatrician, childrens author and child pedagogist, known as Old Doctor (Stary Doktor). ...
Beginning his musical career as a rock guitarist and songwriter, he went on to study classical composition at the Vienna Musikhochschule and Yale with composers such as Kurt Schwertsik, Ezra Laderman and Martin Bresnick. As a student, he was especially interested in the musical system of microtonal just intonation, and studied closely with composer Ben Johnston. His compositions Durham (Triangle Quartet) (1996, for string quartet) and Just Music Makes Me Lose My Temper (1995, for electric guitar, keyboard, and percussion) are just intonation compositions. Yale can refer to an educational institution: Yale University, one of the United States oldest universities. ...
One of the best-known Austrian contemporary composers (born June 25, 1935), famous for creating the “Third Viennese School†and spreading contemporary Classical Music. ...
Ezra Laderman (born June 29, 1924) is an American composer of classical music. ...
Martin Bresnick (born 1946 in New York, NY) is a composer of contemporary classical music. ...
Microtonal music is music using microtones -- intervals of less than a semitone, or as Charles Ives put it, the notes between the cracks of the piano. ...
In music, just intonation, also called rational intonation, is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by whole number ratios; that is, by positive rational numbers. ...
Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Junior (born March 15, 1926 in Macon, Georgia) is one of the best known composers writing in the just intonation system. ...
In addition to Korczak's Orphans, His principal compositions include Sturm (2002, for piano trio), three string quartets (1996, 2000, 2005), In Another Man's Skin (2000, for sextet eighth blackbird), Hard Knocks (1999, for orchestra) and stars, cars, bars (1999, for speaking marimbist, based on a passage from Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita") eighth blackbird is a contemporary music sextet founded in 1996. ...
Vladimir Nabokov This page is about the novelist. ...
Lolita For other uses, see Lolita (disambiguation). ...
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