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Meyer Kupferman (July 3, 1926 – November 26, 2003) was an American composer and clarinetist . Life. Meyer Kupferman was born in New York City to Jewish parents. [1] . A self-taught composer, Kupferman first gained attention in the late 1940s when his early opera "In A Garden" was premiered at the Tanglewood and Edinburgh Festivals.
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Dec 3, 2003 · Meyer Kupferman, a prolific composer whose music embraced both jazz and 12-tone techniques, died on Wednesday near Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 77 and lived in Rhinebeck. The cause...
Jun 9, 2014 · Meyer Kupferman (July 3, 1926 -- November 26, 2003) was a prolific American composer and clarinetist. Meyer Kupferman was born in New York City. A self-taught composer, Kupferman first...
Often enthusiastically celebrated for his catholicity of musical materials, his creative defiance of academic as well as stylistic strictures, and, especially, his combinations as well as juxtapositions of jazz with contemporary concert (read “classical”) music, Meyer Kupferman addressed most of the traditional forms and formal structures ...
Meyer Kupferman was a composer and professor of music. He was a prolific writer of concertos, chamber and solo pieces, operas, ballets, and symphonies. He taught for over 40 years at Sarah Lawrence College. Stylistically his music included both jazz and 12-tone techniques.
May 19, 2010 · based on the Sarah Lawrence College catalogue for five singers (high soprano, two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, contralto), three speakers, chorus (SSA), dancers and piano. Voices For A Mirror (1954) one-act opera libretto by Alastair Reid duration 45 minutes for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano and bass baritone.
