Alan Detweiler
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Alan Gregory Detweiler (15 June 1926 – 25 February 2012Toronto Conservatory of Music.[2] He obtained degrees in philosophy at the University of Toronto and Trinity College Dublin, and earned a Ph.D. in the Aesthetics of Music from the University of London. His composition teachers included Lennox Berkeley and Howard Ferguson. His major works include David and Goliath (1969), a masque for soloists, SATB chorus, and small ensemble, and Theseus and the Minotaur (2011). Alan Detweiler created and administered the annual Detweiler Competition, which awarded prizes for the visual arts at Upper Canada College in Toronto and Bedford School in England.[3]
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- ^ "Alan Gregory Detweiler (15 June 1926 – 25 February 2012)". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 10 March 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
- The Historica Dominion Institute. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
- ^ "Detweiler Competition". Bedford School. 1 March 2018. Retrieved 12 May 2019.