Irving Fine Fantasia for String Trio I. Adagio, Ma Non Troppo with Richard Wernick

Описание: Pulitzer-winning composer Richard Wernick conducts a Master Class on the music of American composer Irving Fine to students from the Peabody Preparatory Performance Academy for Strings. Produced in conjunction with the Library of Congress Irving Fine Centennial Festival.

Speaker Biography: Born 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts, Richard Wernick's many awards include the 1977 Pulitzer Prize in Music, and three Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards -- the only two-time First Prize recipient. He received the Alfred I. Dupont Award from the Delaware Symphony Orchestra in 2000, and has been honored by awards from the Ford Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2006, he received the Composer of the Year Award from the Classical Recording Foundation, resulting in the funding for an all-Wernick CD on the Bridge label, and featuring performances by David Starobin, William Purvis, the Juilliard String Quartet and the Colorado Quartet. Wernick became renowned as a teacher during his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1968 until his retirement in 1996, and was Magnin Professor of Humanities. He has composed numerous solo, chamber, and orchestral works, vocal, choral and band compositions, as well as a large body of music for theater, films, ballet and television.

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