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Normand Lockwood
Kay Norton
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Description for Normand Lockwood
Hardback. Series: Composers of North America. Num Pages: 545 pages, 7ill. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJ; AVGC6; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 32. Weight in Grams: 780.
From his birth in 1906 to the mid-1950s, Normand Lockwood followed the path of success as a composer in the U.S. Between 1925 and 1945 he studied with Nadia Boulanger, received the Rome prize and two Guggenheim fellowships, took prestigious academic positions, and established a flourishing career in New York, with considerable national success. His move to San Antonio in 1953 ended his national career, but he has continued to create works with high musical and aesthetic integrity, committed to creating good music regardless of popular recognition. Lockwood taught composition at Oberlin, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia, Westminster Choir College, ... Read more
From his birth in 1906 to the mid-1950s, Normand Lockwood followed the path of success as a composer in the U.S. Between 1925 and 1945 he studied with Nadia Boulanger, received the Rome prize and two Guggenheim fellowships, took prestigious academic positions, and established a flourishing career in New York, with considerable national success. His move to San Antonio in 1953 ended his national career, but he has continued to create works with high musical and aesthetic integrity, committed to creating good music regardless of popular recognition. Lockwood taught composition at Oberlin, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia, Westminster Choir College, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
545
Condition
New
Series
Composers of North America
Number of Pages
545
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810826830
SKU
V9780810826830
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About Kay Norton
Kay Norton is Associate Professor of Music History and Affiliate Faculty of the Women's Studies department at Arizona State University (Tempe). She previously held faculty positions at the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and at Brenau Women's College in Georgia. In addition to her work on Lockwood, she has published on American hymnody and music of the antebellum ... Read more
Reviews for Normand Lockwood
...author Norton has constructed an insightful profile of her subject's personality as a composer, teacher, and human being...perhaps the crowning achievement of Norton's research is the concluding section which is a catalogue of Lockwood's complete ouevre, including pieces that remain in manuscript...
Sonneck Society Bulletin
The information provided is thorough and well-researched. Norton's book will undoubtedly become the ... Read more
Sonneck Society Bulletin
The information provided is thorough and well-researched. Norton's book will undoubtedly become the ... Read more