Charlotte Chamber Music offers "Carolina Shout: A Musicial Tribute to Romare Bearden"
First Tuesday Concert, October 4
12:10 and 5:30pm FREE!
First Presbyterian Church
200 W Trade St
Charlotte, NC
Guest artists:
Tai Murray, violin
Ina Zdorovetchi, harp
will be performing TJ Anderson's "Vocalise" for violin and harp (ACA
published work from 1988)
Sponsored by CharlotteChamberMusic.org <http://www.cmsp.wordpress.com/>
TJ Anderson's ACA Composer page
T.J. Anderson is one of the leading composers of his generation. He
was born August 17, 1928 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania and received
degrees from West Virginia State College, Penn State University, and a
Ph.D in Composition from the University of Iowa. He also holds several
honorary degrees. After serving as Chairman of the Department of Music
at Tufts University for eight years, Thomas Jefferson Anderson became
Austin Fletcher Professor of Music and in 1990 became Austin Fletcher
Professor of Music Emeritus.
He now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he devotes full
time to writing music. He studied composition with George Ceiga, Philip
Bezanson, Richard Hervig, and Darius Milhaud. Anderson is well known
for his orchestration of Scott Joplin's opera, Treemonisha which
premiered in Atlanta in 1972. His first opera, Soldier Boy, Soldier
based on a libretto by Leon Forrest, was commissioned by Indiana
University. The opera, Walker was commissioned by the Boston Athenaeum
with a libretto by Derek Walcott and Slip Knot, commissioned by the
School of Music, Northwestern University is based on a historical paper
by T.H. Breen with libretto by Yusef Komunyakaa.