Canonbusters
While the Repertory List focuses on living composers, we didn't want to leave behind those composers who are no longer living OR who might still be living but their careers have been overlooked and music underperformed. We're also highlighting composers who graduated or studied at Iowa, because let's support Hawkeyes!!
This is FAR from a comprehensive list, and it will grow over time. There's a list of about twenty more names we've planned to post here, so check back periodically to see what's been added!
Pauline Oliveros
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Listen to a recording of Oliveros's Sound Patterns, performed by UI Choirs in 1971 |
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Borrow the book Software for people : collected writings, 1963-80 by Pauline Oliveros |
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Watch "The difference between hearing and listening" a TEDx talk by Pauling Oliveros |
Florence Price
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Listen to a recording of Price's String Quartet in G Major, arranged for chamber orchestra, performed by the UISO (2020) |
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Read The Heart of a Woman: the life and music of Florence Price by Rae Linda Brown |
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Watch a performance of Price's Violin Concerto No. 2 by the Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra with violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins |
Zenobia Powell Perry
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Iowa ComposersT. J. Anderson
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Listen to a recording of T. J. Anderson's Chamber Symphony, conducted by UI professor James Dixon |
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Watch a clip from an oral history with T. J. Anderson (UI login required) |
Olly Wilson
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A City Called Heaven / by Olly Wilson |
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Voices / by Olly Wilson |
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Contrast: for solo B-flat trumpet / by T. J. Anderson, dedicated to Olly Wilson |
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Watch the Oberlin Sinfonietta perform A City Called Heaven
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Watch a clip from an oral history with Olly Wilson (UI login required) |