Michael Daugherty (born April 28, 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American composer. He comes from a musical family; his father was a dance-band drummer and his four younger brothers are professional musicians. is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in the State of Iowa Coordinates: , Country United States State Iowa County Linn County Incorporated 1849 Government  - Mayor Kay Halloran Area  - City  64. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

Daugherty's music is characterized by an interest in American popular culture. He has composed works based on Superman (Metropolis Symphony, 1988-1993, and Bizarro, 1993), Elvis Presley (Elvis Everywhere and Dead Elvis), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Jackie O, 1997), Niagara Falls (Niagara Falls, 1997, for symphonic band), Liberace (Le Tombeau de Liberace), UFOs (UFO, 1999), and Bells for Stokowski (2001) as well as Spaghetti Western for Orchestra and solo Cor Anglais. Popular culture, sometimes called pop culture, consists of widespread cultural elements in any given society. ... Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ... Metropolis Skyline, as seen in Smallville. ... This article is about the fictional character. ... Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called The King of Rock n Roll or simply The King, was an American singer, musician and actor. ... Dead Elvis is a work for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass and percussion, composed in 1993 by Michael Daugherty, associate professor of music at the University of Michigan. ... “Jacqueline Bouvier” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Niagara Falls (disambiguation). ... Wladziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), better known by only his last name Liberace (LIB-ber-RAH-chee), was an American entertainer. ... “UFO” redirects here. ... For the song titled Orchestra, see The Servant (band). ... The cor anglais, or English horn, is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the woodwind family. ...

Daugherty's music has been widely performed. He has frequently been commissioned, by Evelyn Glennie amongst others. He has received numerous awards for his music. Evelyn Glennie on the cover of her greatest hits album. ...

In 2006, guitarist Manuel Barrueco commissioned and premiered Bay of Pigs from Daugherty for string quartet and guitar. It was premiered by Barrueco and Cuarteto Latinoamericano. Manuel Barrueco (pronounced Mah-noo-éhl Bah-roo-éh-koh) is a classical guitarist. ... Cuarteto Latinoamericano is a celebrated string quartet from Latin America. ...

Daugherty's notable students include Gabriela Lena Frank. Gabriela Lena Frank (b. ...

His daughter is an accomplished bassoon player currently attending Macalester College.

Bells for Stokowski

The orchestration is for piccolo (doubling on flute), three flutes, two oboes, English horn, two Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, saxophone quartet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, four C trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani (five drums), four percussion (vibraphone, glockenspiel, marimba, tubular bells, wind chimes, crotales, cymbals, finger cymbals, triangles, sleigh bells, bell tree, large gong, earth plates, bass drum), two harps, amplified steel string acoustic guitar and strings.

"Bells for Stokowski is a tribute to one of the most influential conductors of the 20th century. As maestro of the Philadelphia Orchestra (1912-36), Leopold Stokowski became famous for interpreting classical music in brilliant new ways. Stokowski boldly conducted American music alongside European traditional and new orchestral repertoire. Stokowski created a sensation by conducting world premieres of avant-garde composers such as Igor Stravinsky and Edgar Varese, and he enraged classical purists with his lavishly Romantic orchestral transcriptions of Bach. Stokowski’s 1940 collaboration with Walt Disney in Fantasia resulted in the first stereophonic recording of an orchestral soundtrack. Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni StanisÅ‚aw BolesÅ‚awowicz April 18, 1882 in London, England, died September 13, 1977 in Nether Wallop, England) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. ...

In Bells for Stokowski Daugherty imagined Stokowski in Philadelphia visiting the Liberty Bell at sunrise, and listening to all the bells of the city resonate. In keeping with Stokowski’s musical vision, he looked simultaneously to the past and the future of American orchestral concert music, utilizing multiple musical canons, polyrhythms, and counterpoints to achieve a complex timbral layering. In the coda he evokes the famous "Stokowski sound," by making the orchestra resound like an enormous, rumbling gothic organ. In the final chords of Bells for Stokowski, we hear the last echoes of a long legacy of great performances by Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music.[1]

External links

• Official website
• Interview with guitarist Manuel Barrueco about working with Michael Daugherty
• NewMusicBox cover: Michael Daugherty in conversation with Frank J. Oteri, December 11, 2006 (includes video)

Listening

• Michael Daugherty interview from American Mavericks site