Tui St. George Tucker (b. California, 1924; d. Boone, North Carolina, April 21, 2004) was an American composer. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Boone is a town located in the northern mountains of North Carolina and in Watauga County, North Carolina, for which it is the county seatGR6 and market town. ... State nickname: Tar Heel State; Old North State Official languages English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley (D) Senators Elizabeth Dole (R) Richard Burr (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 28th 139,509 km² 9. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She moved to New York in 1946, working as a composer, conductor, and performer on the recorder. Her compositions often feature microtonality and are strongly influenced by early music. State nickname: The Empire State Official languages English Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Clinton (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 13. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Various recorders The recorder is a flute-like woodwind musical instrument. ... 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. ... Early music is European classical music before the classical music era and after Ancient music. ...

In 1944 she founded the Camp Catawba for Boys, located near the Blue Ridge Parkway on the Boone side of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, and spent her summers since 1947 as the camp's music director. 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the U.S., noted for its scenic beauty. ... State nickname: Tar Heel State; Old North State Official languages English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley (D) Senators Elizabeth Dole (R) Richard Burr (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 28th 139,509 km² 9. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

She is named for the tui, a bird native to New Zealand, where her mother was born. Binomial name Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae (Gmelin, 1788) The Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) is an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand, one of the largest members of the diverse honeyeater family. ...

Discography

• Indian Summer: Three Microtonal Antiphons on Psalm Texts. LP. Greenville, Maine: Opus One, [1984?].
• The Music of Tui St. George Tucker (1998). Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Centaur.

External links

• [http://www.mountaintimes.com/mtweekly/2004/0429/tui.php3 "High Country Loses Artist, Composer

Tui St. George Tucker 1924-2004"], by Jay Brown, The Mountain Times (Boone, North Carolina), April 29, 2004