John Elwood Price
John Elwood Price | |
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| Born | 21 June 1935 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States |
| Died | 9 May 1995 (aged 59) Tuskegee, Alabama, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, pianist, educator |
| Instrument(s) | Piano |
John Elwood Price (21 June 1935 – 9 May 1995) was an American composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and music teacher. He composed approximately 600 musical works in a wide variety of genres. His works are widely performed in the United States by professional groups.[1]
Biography
Elwood began to study piano when he was five years old. He was a musical prodigy. In sixth grade he wrote a piece for piano that he performed at the graduation ceremony.Cleveland, Ohio. He composed incidental music for theater and worked as a vocal coach. He taught at Florida Memorial College, where he was Chairman of Music and Fine Arts and composer-in-residence. He then taught at Eastern Illinois University, and finally at Tuskegee University, where he began his employment as the Portia Washington Pittman Fellow and artist-in-residence.[2][3][6]
Works
Works for orchestra
- 1950 Rhapsody Symphonique for piano and orchestra
- 1950 Serenade for Tulsa, for piano and orchestra
- 1951 For L'Overture, for piano and orchestra
- 1952 Dance for English horn and orchestra
- 1952 rev. 1955 Scherzo I, for solo clarinet and orchestra
- 1955 - 1975 Two Pieces for string quartet and brass
1. The Solent 2. Inertia
- 1956 Nocturne for a Winter Night, horn, harp and strings
- 1956 - 1,957 Episodes for piano and chamber orchestra
- 1957 Scherzo II, for Clarinet and Orchestra (Revision of Rhapsody Symphonique)
- 1959 - 1974 Concerto for cello and orchestra
1. Recitative 2. Spiritual 3. Variations
- 1963 rev. 1989 ... And so Faustus Gained the World and Lost his Soul (Whatever Happened to Humanity?), For chamber orchestra; revised version for orchestra
- 1968 Scherzo IV, for clarinet and orchestra
- 1968 - 1975 Harambee (Let's all pull together), for orchestra
- 1969 Concerto for piano and orchestra
- 1969 Editorial I, for orchestra
- 1969 Scherzo III, for clarinet and orchestra
- 1972-1973 Overture, for orchestra
- 1973 Scherzo for Cello and Orchestra
- 1974-1975 Two Pieces for trumpet and string orchestra
1. Spiritual 3. Jumpin 'Dance
- 1976-1978 Tutankhamen: Trumpets, trumpet, trumpet (tape), string orchestra and percussion
- 1979-1980 From Remembering the vainglorious Luminescene revealed on That Day ... at Olduvai, for orchestra
- 1980-1981 O Sun of real Peace, for chamber orchestra
- 1980-1981 Three Orchestra Pieces, for orchestra
1. Arawak 2. Citadel 3. Makandal
- 1983 Abeng, for horn and string orchestra
- 1987 No Ideology in the World (or out of it) is worth the death of a Worm, for chamber orchestra
- 1988 - 1989 Adams-Campbell: "Whosoever Will", for orchestra
- 1988 - 1989 Concert for tuba and orchestra
Works for band
- 1951 March No. 1 in C minor., For piano and wind band (dedicated to: Booker T. Washington)
- 1953 March No. 2 for piano and wind band
- 1954 March
- 1969-1971 Four Marches
- 1981 Booker T. Washington Speech: 1897 Boston, Massachusetts, for mixed choir and band
- 1982 54th Regiment, for choir and band
- 1982 We Wear the Mask, for choir, organ and concert
Masses and other church music
- 1957 Ps 2000, for baritone solo, mixed choir, woodwinds and brass, and percussion - text: the composer
- 1970, rev. 1975 - 1976, rev. 1977 Barely time to study Jesus, for seven readers, soloists and mixed choir, orchestra and percussion - text: Robert Chute poem about Nat Turner
- 1972 - 1973 Lest thou bless me, for speaker, mixed choir, concert band and organ - text: Robert Chute 3rd poem by black history
- 1974 rev. 1978 Magnificat, for alto, baritone, mixed choir, organ, woodwinds and brass - text: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Operas
- 1957 College Sonata
- 1972 - 1974 The Other Foot, Ray Bradbury
Theatre music
- 1955 Foresight of time and the university, monologue (a science fiction scene of the creation of the world) with clarinet, trumpet and percussion - text: the composer
- 1962 Entr'acte for "The chairs", horn, bassoon and piano - text: Eugène Ionesco
- 1965 The Tempest - text: William Shakespeare
- 1969 The Feast of Unity, for soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, mixed choir, flute, oboe, alto saxophone, two trumpets, two trombones, tuba, piano / harp, percussion, string octet, actors and dancers - text: Sam White, Sharon Lockhard and others
Works for choir
- 1953 Greenwood Rhythm, for dancers, mixed (or unison) choir, wind ensemble (clarinets, saxophones, horns, trumpets) and percussion - text: the composer
- 1962 -1963 The Damnation of Doctor Faustus, for tenor, mixed choir and chamber orchestra - text: Christopher Marlowe
- 1973 St. Peter relates an incident, for readers, soprano, tenor bass solo, mixed choir, (small) band and organ - Text: James Weldon Johnson
- 1976 -1978 Song of the Liberty Bell, for three speakers, baritone solo, mixed choir and orchestra - text: Lewis Allan
- 1985 - 1986 Harriet Tubman: Booker T. Washington speech Auburn, New York ... 1913, for mixed choir and orchestra
- Confession, for speaker, soloists, mixed choir and orchestra - text: Nat Turner "Confession"
Vocal
- 1954 rev. 1958 Suggestion for the Century, men's quartet and orchestra (dedicated to Russell Jelliffe and John F. Kennedy)
- 1969 Song on a Poem of William Blake, for high voice and piano
- 1983 - 1984 Mandolin, for mezzo-soprano / baritone and small orchestra - Text: Rita Dove
Chamber music
- 1954 Meditation and Change of Thought, trumpet, horn, trombone and tuba
- 1954 Fanfare and March, for trumpet and organ
- 1956 Hymn and Deviation (Brass Quartet), for brass quartet (trumpet, horn, trombone and tuba)
- 1956 Sonata for tuba and piano
- 1957 Blues and Dance I, for clarinet and piano
- 1959 Duet for horn and trombone
- 1962 Quartet for violin, viola, horn and bassoon
- 1967 Lament for dancers, clarinet, trumpet, trombone and percussion
- 1968 Sonata for trombone and piano
- 1968 Trio for clarinet, horn and tuba
- 1974 Fanfayre, five trumpets
- 1974 - 1975 Sonata II, for tuba and piano
1. Recitation 2. Rag 3. Spiritual
- 1988 On the Third Day ... Osiris Rose, for double bass and piano
- 1988 Where are you Robert Johnson?, For instrumental ensemble
- 1992 Isis and Osiris, for bass, keyboard, drums and dancers
For three instruments, clarinet, tuba and piano
Works for piano
- 1977 5 Folksongs
Bibliography
- Evelyn Davidson White, Choral Music by African American Composers - A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, Second Edition, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996, 226. ISBN 978-0-810-83037-0
- Aaron Horne, David N. Baker, Brass Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. 521. ISBN 978-0-313-29826-4
- Aaron Horne, Dominique-Rene de Lerma, String Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography, New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
- Aaron Horne, Woodwind Music of Black Composers, New York: Greenwood Press, 1990, 145. ISBN 978-0-313-27265-3
- Jacqueline Lynn Pickett, John Elwood Price: A coalescence of life, culture, and music in his Jumbo Deviation and I for unaccompanied double bass, Center for Black Music Research (618 S Michigan) in 1996.
- Hildred Roach, Black American Music: Past and Present, Second Edition, Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992, 3668.
- Madison H. Carter, An Annotated Catalog of Composers of African Ancestry, New York: Vantage Press, 1986.
- Ruth E. Anderson, Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary, Second Edition, Boston: GK Hall, 1982, 578.
- Carol Tomasic, Alice Tischler: 15 black American composers: A Bibliography of Their Works, Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1981.
- Eileen Southern, Biographical Dictionary of African-American and African Musicians, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981, 478.
- Composers of the Americas: Biographical Data and Catalog of Their Works, Volume 19, Washington, DC: Secretaria General, Organizacion de los Estados Americanos, 1977.
Awards
- ASCAPAward
- Ford Foundation Study Grant[1]
- Phelps-Stokes Research and Scholar Exchange Grant[1]
- Illinois Arts Council Completion Grant[1]
References
- ^ a b c d White, Evelyn Davidson, Choral Music by African American Composers: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, 2nd Edition. Scarecrow Press (1996), 209. Print.
- ^ a b Home, Aaron, Woodwind Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography, Music Reference Collection Series 24, Greenwood Publishing (1990), 52-53. Print.
- ^ a b Home, Aaron, Brass Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography, Greenwood Publishing (1996), 218. Print.
- ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
- ^ Johnson, Calvert (2013). "Organ Works by Composers from Africa and the African Diaspora: Bibliography". American Guild of Organists. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
- ^ CBMR Digest 8:2 (Fall 1995), 9. Columbia College Chicago. Print.
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