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	Music Associates of America Roster ~ Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
		Widely considered to be one of America's leading composers, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was born in Miami, Florida in 1939.
		Zwilich is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Music (the first woman ever to receive this coveted award).
		She was elected to the Florida Artists Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 1995, was named to the first Composer's Chair in the history of Carnegie Hall.
	www.musicassociatesofamerica.com /roster/zwilich/zwilich.html (272 words)

	FSU College of Music . Faculty & Staff . Faculty
		ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH, Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor, is widely considered to be one of America's leading composers.
		Zwilich is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Music (the first woman ever to receive this coveted award).
		A prolific composer in all media except opera, Zwilich has produced four symphonies and other orchestral essays, numerous concertos for a wide variety of solo instruments, and a sizable canon of chamber and recital pieces.
	www.music.fsu.edu /zwilich.htm (245 words)

	Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939) was a highly regarded American composer who received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1983 for her Symphony No. 1 (Three Movements for Orchestra).
		Zwilich was born in Miami, Florida, in 1939 and began writing music when she was ten years old.
		Zwilich described Severinsen as a "killer trumpet player." A long time fan of the Peanuts comic strip, she composed Peanuts Gallery (1997) with the blessings of Charles Schultz, the strips' creator.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/ellen-taaffe-zwilich (1317 words)

	Ellen Taffe Swilich Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra: A Musical Analysis by Terry Roberts
		Zwilich’s ability to capture the character of the horn, from warm and soulful to bold and brassy, contributes to making this concerto a staple of the repertoire from the last decade of the twentieth century.
		Zwilich gives instructions for the horn in the score, “mellow, broad, brassy and free.” This embodies her idea of the range of horn timbre from sensitive to brassy as described earlier on page twelve of this chapter.
		Zwilich had no objection to this change, she only wanted there to be a change in sound, either muted to open or stopped to open.
	alpha1.fmarion.edu /~finearts/TARHorn.htm (9180 words)

	Floridian: Imagination reborn as sound
		Zwilich, a symphony orchestra violinist before devoting her life to composing, worked out Episodes on her fiddle before sending it to Perlman and de Silva.
		Zwilich, who grew up in South Florida and now divides her time between New York and Pompano Beach, was a logical choice for the commission.
		Zwilich was inspired by the idea of having the legendary violinist play her work.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/02/20/Floridian/Imagination_reborn_as.shtml (1067 words)

	First Edition Reissues Music Of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Review By Joe Milicia
		n the 1980s and early '90s Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was perhaps a more talked-about or in-the-news composer than at present, though she has continued to write for major orchestras and soloists (notably a couple of symphonies and several wind concertos).
		But the term "symphony" is appropriate, considering not only the development of motifs in one 16-minute movement but also the frequent doubling of musical lines, creating a somewhat dense sonority at times.
		Zwilich's Symphony No. 2 of 1985 is a "Cello" Symphony not in the sense of Benjamin Britten's symphony with virtuoso solo part (originally for Mstislav Rostropovich), but because it prominently features the whole cello section.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/1204/classical/zwilich.htm (698 words)

	Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939- ) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe, 1939- -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.
		Author: Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe, 1939- Title: Concerto grosso 1985 : to Handel's Sonata in D for violin and continuo, First movement / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
		Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe, 1939- Concertos, trumpet, instrumental ensemble.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~Mcneil/cit/citlczwilich.htm (3937 words)

	FSU.com :: FSU's Ellen Taaffe Zwilich elected to prestigious academy
		FSU professor of music and 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was recently elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences, regarded as one of the highest honors in academia.
		Zwilich, who holds the rank of Eppes Professor, was one of 178 new fellows and 24 foreign honorary members who were elected to the organization this year.
		Zwilich joins men and women in the 224-year-old academy who are world-renowned leaders in scholarship, business, the arts, science and public affairs.
	www.fsu.com /pages/2004/05/26/zwilich.html (558 words)

	NPRN Composer of the Month - Women Composers
		It has fallen to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich for some of those firsts for women composers: in 1975 she became the first woman to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition at the Juilliard School of Music in New York (where her teachers were Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions).
		In 1983, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich won the Pulitzer Prize in composition for her Symphony No. 1, the first woman to receive that award.
		Her music that stemmed from her period of study tended to be angular and bristling, but beginning in 1979, after the death of her husband, she began to work with a greater desire to communicate with performers and listeners, and her music has become successively more approachable.
	net.unl.edu /musicFeat/composer/cmwellenzwilich.html (346 words)

	Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
		Like the great masters of bygone times, Zwilich produces music "with fingerprints," music that is immediately recognized as the product of a particular American composer who combines craft and inspiration in reflecting her optimistic and humanistic spirit in her compositions.
		In 1995, she was named to the first Composer's Chair in the history of Carnegie Hall, and she was designated Musical America's Composer of the Year for 1999.
		Many of her works have been issued on recordings, and Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians [85h edition] states:"There are not many composers in the modern world who possess the lucky combination of writing music of substance and at the same time exercising an immediate appeal to mixed audiences.
	www.sai-national.org /phil/composers/ezwilich.html (527 words)

	Office of Research: Spotlight on Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
		Her music, which is performed and recorded by leading orchestras and ensembles, and listened to by audiences the world over, is known as distinct—music that is immediately recognized as her product and that reflects her optimistic and humanistic spirit.
		After receiving BA and MA degrees in music composition from FSU, and a doctorate from the Julliard School, Zwilich was invited to play violin in the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski (from 1965 to 1972).
		Tap into the Zwilich sound: Many of her works are available on CD and are performed here on campus by local and visiting musicians.
	www.research.fsu.edu /spotlight/Zwilich.html (338 words)

	Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Biography (Composer) — FactMonster.com
		Zwilich studied music at Florida State University and the Juilliard School, earning her doctorate in composition.
		Zwilich has made many recordings and won numerous awards and accolades, including four Grammy nominations, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a spot in the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
		Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Violin Concerto; Rituals (Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Michael Stern, Nexus, IRIS…
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/ellentaaffezwilich.html (221 words)

	[Susan Halpern, Program Notes] Program Notes Samples
		Her teachers there were very much of the American twentieth century, Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions, and in 1975, Zwilich was awarded the first doctorate in composition that the School gave to a woman.
		Zwilich comments, “For me, it is important that the orchestra play a crucial role in the dialogue, but I want the violin to be free to be expressive in its mezzo piano range.
		Zwilich has not written a formal cadenza for the violin, which is a usual part of the concerto, and she explains, “My Violin Concerto has a lot of cadenza-like material in it but no authentic cadenza.
	www.halpernprogramnotes.com /samples_om_zwilich.html (909 words)

	Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Biography (Composer) — Infoplease.com
		Zwilich studied music at Florida State University and the Juilliard School, earning her doctorate in composition.
		Zwilich has made many recordings and won numerous awards and accolades, including four Grammy nominations, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a spot in the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
		Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Violin Concerto; Rituals (Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Michael Stern, Nexus, IRIS…
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/ellentaaffezwilich.html (195 words)

	Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonata in 3 Movements By Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
		Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Lullaby for Linus Composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939-).
		Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: [interviewed] by Janice Fournier in Riverdale, New York, on October 1, 1986 (American music series)
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/zwilich (707 words)

	TIME.com: A Bold, Brash 'Cello Symphony -- Nov. 25, 1985 -- Page 1
		Today Zwilich is that rarity, a composer who makes her living entirely from commissions, performance fees and royalties, without having to rely on teaching or grants to ensure a modest but adequate income.
		Her 1979 Chamber Symphony, a kind of elegy to her late husband, Metropolitan Opera Violinist Joseph Zwilich, is reminiscent of Shostakovich in its arching melodies and air of melancholic brooding.
		Zwilich's new symphony is a 24-minute, three-movement, fast-slow-fast essay that daringly transforms the cello section into a collective soloist, a throaty protagonist locked in combat with the rest of the orchestra.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050612,00.html (797 words)

	The Piano Education Page - Musical Discovery: Some Thoughts on Choosing Repertoire
		Two modern composers whose works I especially enjoy are William Bolcom, born in 1938, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, born in 1939 (pronunciation of her name rhymes with "safe hillock").
		Bolcom and Zwilich have in common an international acclaim for their music and commissions from some of the world's leading orchestras and soloists.
		Although Ellen Zwilich was at one time a professional violinist, she also studied piano, and writes very sympathetically for the instrument.
	pianoeducation.org /pnoreper.html (1170 words)

	cyberecital.com
		Composer Ellen Zwilich's 'Millennium Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra' began a long journey Friday night at Music Hall.
		Zwilich to write 'Millennium Fantasy,' asked for something on the order of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue.” You might call it "Rhapsody in Sage" instead, for its use of a folk song, “Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens” (compare “I am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger”) and its meaty, flavorful construction.
		In two-movements, the 20 minute work also recalls Vaughan Williams' 20th-century masterwork, "Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis," not just in the shape of the tune, but in the use of plucked strings at the beginning.
	www.cyberecital.com /wso5.htm (347 words)

	Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1983, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is among the most acclaimed American composers.
		A graduate of Florida State University, she was the first woman to receive a Doctorate in Composition from The Julliard School.
		Zwilich is the recipient of many prizes and honors, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition, the Arturo Toscanini Music Critics Award in 1987, the Alfred I. Dupont Award, three Grammy nominations, and in 1992, she was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.florida-arts.org /programs/halloffame/zwilich.htm (90 words)

	Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - famous Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Classics hit collection and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Music Reviews. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From a more astringently contemporary style, her music has developed into a more generally tonal idiom, using more conventional materials, blending suggestions of neo-classicism with the neo-romantic, in a language that has proved popular with American audiences.
		Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's orchestral music includes four symphonies, Symphony No.1 (THree Movements for Orchestra) in 1982, Symphony No.2 (Cello Symphony) in 1985, Symphony No.3 in 1992, and Symphony No.4, for children's chorus, mixed chorus and orchestra, in 1999.
		She has written solo concertos for trombone, flute, oboe, horn, trumpet, bassoon, and violin, two piano concertos, and a double concerto for violin and cello, with a triple concerto for violin, cello and piano.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/6547.htm (242 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Zwilich
		Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was born in Miami, Florida in 1939, and is considered one of America's leading composers.
		Zwilich's music has received numerous prizes and honors, including the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Symphony #1.
		A prolific composer in virtually all musical media, Zwilich has produced symphonies and other orchestral essays, numerous concertos for a wide variety of solo instruments, and a sizable canon of chamber and recital pieces.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/zwilich.html (406 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		This morning I had the pleasure of participating in the New York Philharmonic�s Composers Forum, featuring Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
		The Phil is performing her �American Concerto� for trumpet and orchestra this weekend, and this morning�s Forum consisted of an open rehearsal followed by an hour-long question-and-answer session.
		Zwilich has been to � and very much approves of � our little patch of cyberspace here.
	www.sequenza21.com /2006/04/at-composers-forum-with-ellen-taaffe.html (297 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: KAIZER, LARAINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ellen Taafe Zwilich’s music has had undeniable success with many audiences.
		This thesis first examines the musical qualities of Zwilich’s music that may be considered accessible.
		This thesis does not assume that Zwilich is the first or likely last composer to exhibit all the qualities examined in this paper; instead, these elements are identified and discussed as part of her style.
	www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?ucin1092247003 (145 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Something Eternal ~ September 12 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		A classical musician dedicated to life's meaning, composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939-) was born in Miami, Florida.
		Her Millennium Fantasy was inspired by a folk song her grandmother sang to her as a child.
		Considered to be one of America's leading composers, her optimistic and inspired arrangements have been commissioned by many leading orchestras.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /091203.htm (279 words)

	Press Releases and Reviews
		Sandwiched between the Dvorak bookends came the Miami premiere of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Millennium Fantasy" and Franck's Symphonic Variations, both with Jeffrey Biegel as fluent and eloquent piano soloist.
		Zwilich begins with muted trumpets and faint cymbal rolls.
		Her bluesy orchestra, with musing woodwinds, is by turns plaintive and perky, the pianist a strong presence but in spurts of striding chords or gently cascading scales.
	www.cyberecital.com /miamiherald.htm (380 words)

	Amazon.com: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Violin Concerto; Rituals: Music: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich,Michael Stern,Nexus,IRIS ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		My 3 star isn't against Ellen Zwilch who deserves high marks for another fine concerto but for Naxos who gets low marks for a poorly designed program, and at only 52:04, a stingy one at that.
		When Ellen Taafe Zwilich wrote her Violin Concerto in 1998 she brought a violinist's perspective to it; she had played in Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra for a number of years.
		Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Violin Concerto; Rituals ~ Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
	www.amazon.com /Ellen-Taaffe-Zwilich-Concerto-Rituals/dp/B000AMMSOE (1164 words)

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