Radie Britain
Radie Britain | |
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| Born | March 17, 1899 |
| Died | May 23, 1994 (aged 95) |
| Occupation | composer |
Radie Britain (March 17, 1899 – May 23, 1994) was an American composer, pianist, writer and music educator.
Life
Radie Britain was born near
Adele Aus der Ohe in Berlin and Albert Noelte in Munich who encouraged her to pursue composition. She made her debut as a composer in Munich in May 1926. She returned to Texas after the death of her sister, and later taught at the Girvin Institute of Music and Allied Arts in Chicago
. She composed orchestral works in the tradition of German post-romanticism during these years.
Britain's Heroic Poem (1929) won the
Palm Desert, California, and her papers are housed at several locations.[5]
Works
Britain incorporated musical idioms from the southwestern United States into her compositions. Selected orchestral works include:
- Angel Chimes
- Brothers of the Clouds with TTBB chorus
- The Builders with SATB chorus
- Cactus Rhapsody
- Chicken in the Rough
- Chipmunks for woodwinds, harp, percussion
- Cosmic Mist Symphony
- Cowboy Rhapsody
- Drouth
- The Earth Does Not Wish for Beauty with SATB chorus
- Earth of God (String Orchestra)
- Les Fameux Douze The Famous Twelve for small orchestra
- Four Sarabandes for small orchestra
- Franciscan Sketches
- San Luis Rey
- Saint Francis of Assisi
- Heroic Poem
- Infant Suite
- In Living Ecstasy with solo voice
- Jewels of Lake Tahoe
- Kambu
- Lament with solo violin
- Little per cent
- Minha Terra
- Mother: A Melody of Love with narrator
- Nisan with SATB chorus[6]
References
Notes
- ^ Radie received her award in 1945, substantiated by an extant announcement letter dating from June 8, 1945. Her award is commonly misreported as dating to 1930, possibly to due an early misprint, see Macdonald 2012, p. 27
Citations
- ^ Barkley, Roy R. (2003). The handbook of Texas music. Texas State Historical Association.
- ^ Claghorn, Charles Eugene (1996). Women composers and songwriters: a concise biographical dictionary.
- ^ Fuller, Sophie Fuller (1994). The Pandora guide to women composers: Britain and the United States.
- ^ Macdonald 2012, p. 27.
- ^ "BRITAIN, RADIE". Texas State Historical Society. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
- ^ "Radie Britain Collection:Orchestral Music". William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
Sources
- Macdonald, C. Megan Hoffman (2012). Radie Britain: Composing the American Hero (M.Mus. thesis). Tallahassee: OCLC 859534113.
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