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Wake County Public Schools
The Borden Fund, Inc. R.A. Bryan Foundation, Inc. Mary Grey Burney Foundation
The Elaine Tayloe Kirkland Fund
EDUCATION SUSTAINERS EDUCATION PATRONS EDUCATION BENEFACTORS
The Cole Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Corbett Corning Incorporated Foundation
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Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools
Carteret Community Foundation
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina
EDUCATION SUPPORTERS
SCHOOL
Gipson Family Foundation
The Norman and Rose S. Shamberg Foundation
Durham Public Schools
AnonymousAnonymous Fund Bailey Endowment, Inc.
The Dickson Foundation, Inc. Dover Foundation, Inc.
The Harold H. Bate Foundation Bell Family Foundation
Mark and Gayle Acuff Alamance County Government
Williams Curl and Myron R. Curl Charitable Fund
Gregory Poole Equipment
ENDOWMENTEDUCATIONFUNDS
Orange County Schools
supporters:
Craven County Community Foundation
The Ina Mae and Rex G. Powell
The Lundy Fetterman Family Foundation Trust George Foundation, Inc.
Florence Rogers Charitable Trust E.T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Foundation
Wake County Music Education Fund
Supporters are current as of July 2022
The Mary Whiting Ewing Charitable Foundation Fund
The Titmus Foundation The Unifour Foundation, Inc. Endowment Vance County Community Foundation Alex and Barbara Wilson Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation, Inc. Southern Bank Foundation Swearingen Tannenbaum-SternbergerFoundation Foundation, Inc.
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EDUCATION PARTNERS
Anonymous (2), Anonymous Trust / Simple Gifts Fund, The Bastian Family Charitable Foundation
The Joseph C. and Diane E. Bastian Fund for Music Education
Outer Banks Community Foundation
Granville County Community Foundation
William C. Ethridge Foundation, Inc.
Poole Family Foundation Prescott Family Charitable Trust W. Trent Ragland, Jr. Foundation Rete Mirable Fund
Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The Hellendall Family Foundation of North Carolina Iredell County Community Foundation
Onslow County Government
SUPPORTERSSYSTEM
The Ruby and Raymond A. Bryan Foundation Fund
Harry and Virginia Killian Charitable Endowment
Rockingham County Community Foundation
The North Carolina Symphony gratefully acknowledges financial support from Wake County, the City of Raleigh, and the State of North Carolina. NCS also gratefully acknowledges the following
Lenoir County Community Foundation Dr. Neil McLeod Moore County Community Foundation
New Hanover County Government Onslow Caring Communities Foundation
Margaret C. Woodson Foundation
Edgecombe County Schools
The Backyard Foundation, Robert P. Holding Foundation, Inc., Samuel P. Mandell Foundation, James J. and Mamie R. Perkins Memorial Fund, Youths’ Friends Association Inc.
NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY
The Janirve Foundation Fund
Cumberland County Schools
Harnett County Schools Lee County Schools New Hanover County Schools
The Hulka Ensemble and Chamber Music Programs Fund
FEATURED WORK Othello Suite, Op. 79, Dance
BIOGRAPHY
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was named after English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Many of his compositions were inspired by poetry, including poetry by his namesake.
BORN: August 15, 1875, London, England
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FUN FACTS
• During a visit to America, Coleridge-Taylor was invited to the White House to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt.
Introduction
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in London, England in 1875. His mother was also born in England, and his father in Sierra Leone. Coleridge-Taylor began studying violin at a young age and was admitted into the Royal College of Music in 1890, at age 15. He rose to success as a composer despite the rampant racism of the time. In 1899, ColeridgeTaylor first heard African-American spirituals, and soon began incorporating them into his own compositions. He toured America three times, in 1904, 1906, and 1910, and there met a large community of Black musicians who both admired and inspired him. In addition to composing, Coleridge-Taylor was also an activist. He was a prominent figure in the first Pan-African Conference in London in 1900, which aimed to address the issues of racism and colonialism. Additionally, he sought to fight for respect for music of the African diaspora by featuring it prominently in his compositions.
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DIED: September 1, 1912, Croydon, England
• At the Royal College of Music, ColeridgeTaylor studied music under Charles Villier Stanford, who also taught many other famous composers of the time, including Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Listen to all the different instruments!
• He spoke 15 languages! Travelling the world as a musician helped him pick up languages at nearly every stop.
Born in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed promise at an early age. Watching his older sister practice the piano helped shape his basic understanding of musical concepts. It wasn’t long before his father, an accomplished composer and musician, began tutoring him to advance his playing. At just six years old, he and his sister started performing for audiences. The stress of touring presented frequent health issues within the family and made for a difficult childhood. These obstacles didn’t stop Mozart from carrying on as a composer and a performer. As he got older, Mozart eventually arrived in Vienna where he wrote music, taught lessons, and performed in various venues. His life wasn’t long, but he performed often and collaborated with other composers to create timeless art. He continued to write operas, string quartets, symphonies, and more until the end of his life, becoming one of the most well-known composers in history.
BORN: January 27, 1756, Salzburg, Austria
BIOGRAPHY
• Mozart had many different pets, including a horse, a dog, and two songbirds: a starling and a canary.
Mozart
FUN FACTS
DIED: December 5, 1791, Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus
FEATURED WORK Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, Molto allegro
• He was disorganized and would refuse to organize his music. Decades later, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel catalogued everything and saw how much music Mozart had written.
FORM How ofsectionsthemusic are put together... the structure
DYNAMICS The softness or loudness of the sound FEATURED WORK Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Allegro
DIED: March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria
BIOGRAPHY
FUN FACTS
Ludwig van Beethoven began his musical schooling when he was a small child. Both his father and grandfather were musicians at the Court of the Elector of Cologne, located in Beethoven’s hometown of Bonn. Although Beethoven’s father began his son’s musical education, it was clear that the boy had surpassed his father’s abilities by the age of nine. By age 12, Beethoven had composed his first work of music. In his young adult life, he worked as a conductor and organist for the court band. Like many other composers, Beethoven traveled to Vienna, Austria to find inspiration. Here, he played for famous musicians such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn, who later became some of his mentors. Beethoven was very restless, always jumping from one composition to another. His musical ideas frequently became fused together in the chaos, creating some of his most memorable works. As an adult, he began to lose his hearing. Although this loss was devastating, he continued to compose for nearly 25 more years until his death in 1827.
• He was very fond of nature and often took long walks in the countryside to find inspiration.
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• Beethoven was known for having a hot temper and occasionally lashing out at his fans.
• More than 20,000 people lined the streets of Vienna for Beethoven’s funeral procession.
BORN: December 1770, Bonn, Germany
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Rhythm A pattern of notes of varied lengths and accents... the beat or the pulse of the music FEATURED WORK Symphony No. Symphony,”“Afro-American1,Scherzo
Still
• He was known as “The Dean of African American Classical Composers.”
BORN: May 11, 1895, Woodville, Mississippi
BIOGRAPHY
• William Grant Still studied medicine at Wilberforce University before going on to study composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
FUN FACTS
• He was the first African American to conduct a major American orchestra— the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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William Grant Still was born in Woodville, Mississippi, but was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas by his mother and grandmother. He studied composition at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio. Later, he went to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and studied under George W. Chadwick. After his time in Boston, he began studying with a composer of the avant-garde, Edgard Varèse. In the 1920’s, he began working in jazz music. He was a jazz arranger for Paul Whiteman, a dance-band leader of the time, and for blues composer W.C. Handy. In 1939, he moved to Los Angeles after getting married to pianist Verna Arvey. After moving, he began composing works for chamber orchestra; two of his early works are Darker America and From the Black Belt. Still’s concern with the treatment of African Americans in the U.S. can be seen in many of his works. This can especially be seen in the Afro-American Symphony, his ballet, Sahdji, and his operas, Troubled Island and Highway 1 U.S.A. These pieces were composed after Still’s extensive study and research on African music. His eclectic musical style, which included many different musical influences, was enjoyed by audience members of every race and ethnicity. Still is remembered as one of America’s greatest composers, and his music is widely performed today.
DIED: December 3, 1978, Los Angeles, California
• Although we know him as Georges Bizet, his original full name was Alexandre César Léopold Bizet. By his baptism two years later, his family was referring to him as Georges, though it is unclear how or why this name came about.
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Georges Bizet was born in 1838 and began showing his own musical talent at a young age. He began his studies at the Paris Conservatoire at age 10, where he continued to work on his composing. For one of his early compositions, he won an award called the Prix de Rome in 1857, which led to a pension to work at the French Academy in Rome. He lived in Rome for the next two years before returning to France in 1860. Later in his life, although he was admired by other composers of the time, Bizet was often overlooked and forgotten by the public. Furthermore, he seemed frustrated with his own compositions, starting several operas and then leaving them unfinished. Bizet wedded Geneviève Halévy in 1869; they had a son and a generally happy marriage. Bizet passed away at the early age of 36. Although he didn’t achieve widespread success during his lifetime, appreciation for his works continued to grow after his passing, with several of his operas reaching widespread popularity that Bizet would never get to see.
• He was not the first musician in his family!
FUN FACTS
• He left a lot of unfinished works. Of the thirty operas we know he started in his lifetime, he only finished six. However, he often reused material from pieces he left incomplete in his later works.
BORN: October 25, 1838, Paris, France
His father was a voice teacher and his mother a skilled amateur pianist.
DIED: June 3, 1875, Bougival, France
BIOGRAPHY
Bizet
Tempo The speed of the music... how fast or how slow FEATURED WORK Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Texture The way melody and harmony are atogetherarrangedtocreatecompletesound FEATURED WORK Spirituals of Liberation
Kelley
FUN FACTS
• Anthony Kelley teaches composition at Duke University.
• He grew up in Henderson, an hour north of Raleigh. His first introduction to classical music was a field trip to see the North Carolina Symphony perform in Vance County.
The North Carolina Symphony gratefully acknowledges support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
BIOGRAPHY
In addition to composing, Kelley has spent much of his time introducing younger people to music creation. He likes to focus on helping young composers transfer their musical ideas from their minds into notes on a page. One of the ways that he does this is through teaching in a way that allows for freedom of musical ideas, regardless of the amount of classical music training students have.
BORN: February 28, 1965, Henderson, North Carolina Anthony
• He was inspired to pursue music as a career after hearing the second movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in high school.
Anthony Kelley is Associate Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University. He joined the Duke University music faculty in 2000 after serving as Composer in Residence with the Richmond Symphony for three years under a grant from Meet the Composer, Inc. One of the main goals of this program was to introduce children to the idea that the word “composer” applies to people living among us today, and not only people from hundreds of years ago like Bach and Beethoven.
• He writes movie music! Movies Kelley has written music for include Kudzu Vine and The Doll.
• J. Rosamond Johnson arranged over 150 spirituals and over 160 musical theatre songs!
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John Rosamond Johnson was one of the most successful African American composers of his time. Born in 1873 in Jacksonville, Florida, he left in 1890 to study at the New England Conservatory. He then moved to London to continue his studies for a short period of time, before returning to his hometown of Jacksonville and becoming a public-school teacher. Around the same time, he also formed a songwriting duo with his older brother, poet James Weldon Johnson.
BORN: August 11, 1873, Jacksonville, Florida
In 1900, Johnson moved to New York City to work with his brother and fellow composer Robert Cole. Together, the team worked on a vaudeville show and put together a couple of Broadway operettas, remaining collaborators until Robert Cole’s death in 1911. Johnson continued in show business in various ways for the rest of his life, touring with vaudeville groups, writing songs, performing in shows, and editing music collections. He also worked to teach the next generation, founding the New York Music School Settlement for Colored People, a music school in Harlem.
The main idea of the music... the line that you walk away singing
DIED: November 11, 1954, New York City, New York
• He was a musical prodigy and was considered to be an accomplished pianist by age four.
• Although famous as a composer and arranger, he was also a talented performer, appearing in multiple Broadway shows during his time in New York.
FEATURED WORK “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Melody
FUN FACTS
BIOGRAPHY
Rosamond
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FEATURED
FUN FACTS
• In addition to playing in a mariachi band, his father played the violin and worked in construction to support his family.
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BORN: December 20, 1950, Álamos, Sonora, Mexico
• After completing his composition studies at the Music Conservatory of Mexico, he received a scholarship to continue his studies in Paris from the French Government.
BIOGRAPHY
Arturo Márquez was born in Mexico and grew up listening to a variety of musical genres. One of the avenues of exposure was from his father who was a mariachi musician. Growing up around the musical culture of Sonora, Mexico during his childhood helped influence his drive to become a composer and musician. Márquez began his musical education and composing at the age of 16 in La Puente, California in 1966. He later went on to study at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico, followed by studies with French composer Jacques Castérède in Paris. Some of his most popular compositions draw inspiration from danzón, the ballroom dancing born out of Cuba in the 1800s. His later compositions take inspiration from Mexican urban music. Finale All elements work together to form music! WORK Conga del Fuego Nuevo
• Márquez was born in the Sonoran Desert, where summer temperatures can reach more than 110°F!
