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	George Crumb \| the LIFE
		Crumb, the winner of a 2001 Grammy Award and the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Music, continues to compose new scores that enrich the musical lives of those who come in contact with his profoundly humanistic art.
		George Henry Crumb was born in Charleston, West Virginia on 24 October 1929.
		George Crumb's music is published by C.F. Peters and the ongoing series of "Complete Crumb" recordings, supervised by the composer, is being issued on Bridge Records.
	www.georgecrumb.net /life.html (488 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia George Crumb - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George Crumb (born October 24, 1929) is an American composer of classical music.
		Crumb was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and began to compose at an early age.
		Several of Crumb's works, including the four books of madrigals he wrote in the late 1960s and Ancient Voices of Children, a song cycle[?] of 1970 for two singers and small instrumental ensemble (which includes a toy piano), are settings of texts by Federico Garcia Lorca.
	www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/ge/George_Crumb (561 words)

	George Crumb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Crumb (born October 24, 1929) is an American composer of modern and avant garde music.
		Crumb retired from teaching in 1997, though in early 2002 was appointed with David Burge to a joint residency at Arizona State University.
		Written for amplified string quartet (referred to as "electric string quartet" by the composer in the score, although the instruments called for are acoustic ones), the players are required to play various percussion instruments and to bow small goblets as well as to play their instruments in both conventional and unconventional ways.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Crumb (1029 words)

	George Crumb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Crumb is the last surviving Great American Composer; no one of his stature is left on this side of the Atlantic.
		Crumb trained in Berlin in 1954-55 and his interests are certainly global, but the result aches of his native West Virginia.
		Crumb's staggering plurality is only matched by his easygoing manner; he speaks and writes music with simple surfaces, concealing a vast pool of resources.
	hometown.aol.com /farolan1/crumb.html (449 words)

	George Crumb - Vox Balaenae
		$19.99 Buy CD George Crumb should be seen not as an isolated, iconoclastic voice who emerged unexpectedly in the '60s and continues to follow his own separate path, but as another importan historical figure in the long line of American maverick composers.
		It is in this company that George Crumb belongs.
		George Crumb (composer); Ensemble Fur Neue Musik Zurich.
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	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		George Crumb has been the recipient of numerous honors, awards and commissions, including the 1968 Pulitzer Prize, the 1971 International Rostrum of Composers (UNESCO) Award; Fromm, Guggenheim, Koussevitzky and Rockefeller Foundation Awards; and is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
		Crumb became the 36th recipient of the MacDowell Medal, an award named in honor of the American composer, and is awarded to a composer, writer or visual artist who, in the judgement of his/her peers has made an outstanding contribution to the nation's culture.
		Attributes of George Crumb's music which are frequently cited include the composer's extraordinarily sensitive ear for refined timbral nuance, his powerful evocative sense, and a sureness and conciseness in realizing his musical intentions.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=298 (253 words)

	DePauw University - School of Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Crumb attended Mason College in Charleston, and went on to study composition with Eugene Weigel at the University of Illinois, earning a Master’ s Degree in 1952.
		Crumb regards his principal composition teacher as Ross Lee Finney at the University of Michigan, where he completed his doctorate in 1959.
		Crumb feels himself to be very much the inheritor of musical practice of the early twentieth century, and cites his greatest influences as Debussy, Mahler, Bartok, and Ives.
	www.depauw.edu /music/21stcentury/crumb_bio.asp (576 words)

	George Crumb \| the NEWS \| travels & performances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George Crumb was on the composition faculty for the 25th June in Buffalo music festival.
		New York University Composers Forum celebrated George Crumb's 70th birthday with a panel discussion by the composer and Jeffrey Jacob, moderated by Dinu Ghezzo, followed by a piano recital by Mr Jacob, and concluding with a session of questions and answers with the public.
		George Crumb attended an open rehearsal the afternoon of the concert, at which students from UNCW met the composer.
	www.musicweb-international.com /crumb/travels.html (1246 words)

	George Crumb
		George Crumb's career is rather typical for American composers in the second half of the twentieth century.
		Crumb's music is a rich blend of new and innovative techniques, often involving aspects of theater.
		Here Crumb allows the singer to turn her voice into a different kind of instrument, using clicks, sighs, laughs, and yells to create dramatic effects (he also asks instrumentalists to speak, sing, or shout, often as a part of playing).
	www.wwnorton.com /classical/composers/crumb.htm (604 words)

	George Crumb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George Crumb was born on October 24, 1929, the same day as the infamous great Crash on Wall Street.
		George Crumb concentrated most on playing and composing for the piano throughout his college years at Mason College of Music in Charleston.
		Crumb is known for his “unusual and hauntingly evocative timbres and for incorporating mysterious voices and sounds of unconventional instruments into his works,” and for his innovative use of theatrical techniques in chamber music.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/appendix/composers/C/GeorgeCrumb.html (307 words)

	Interivew with Georg Perle, George Crumb & David Diamond
		George Crumb and with him David Diamond and George Perle have observed the comings and goings (and returns) of serialism, neo-romanticism, minimalism and structuralism.
		Crumb, who came to the fore in the '60s with darkly evocative timbres and mystical rituals, also emphasizes a composer's responsibility to add only exceptional pieces to music history's long list of works.
		Crumb claims he's slowed down in the last few years ("I think maybe it's age," says the composer, who was just in one door from the Bowdoin Festival in Maine and was almost out another door to Boulder, Colorado).
	www.americancomposers.org /millen1.htm (1368 words)

	PHF-Panel Discussion with George Crumb
		Celebrated composer George Crumb, was joined by music professors Eugene Narmour and Anna Weesner of Penn, and Robert Maggio of West Chester University in a special preconcert panel discussion at 7:00 pm of Crumb's Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), a work that symbolizes prehistoric time.
		Crumb's reply was that "with each different group of performers [the Vox Balanae] is reborn" and thus will always maintain a newness that is perhaps obscured by the date of composition.
		Musical time is psychological time." Thus, Crumb's insight would seem to deny the apparent association between performance - which is metered with a significant degree of precision - and the perception of performance within which is revealed the expression of timelessness.
	humanities.sas.upenn.edu /01-02/crumb.htm (372 words)

	Who is George Crumb? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George Crumb is one of the most important living composers.
		Crumb’s listeners experience the genius of invention, admiration for craft, and an endless fascination with the sheer variety of sounds and shapes that the human mind can find.
		Crumb will interact with student performers, chamber music concerts presented by Carnegie Mellon faculty and distinguished guest artists, and an orchestra concert presenting his extraordinary work for very large orchestra.
	www.cmu.edu /cfa/music/crumbfest/whoiscrumb.html (268 words)

	Bridge Records Management: George Crumb
		Crumb first taught theory and analysis at Hollins College, Virginia before being appointed as instructor and assistant professor in piano and composition at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1958.
		Though George Crumb began composing as a teenager, he regards most of his early music as juvenilia, and has discouraged performances of these early compositions.
		In the 1960s and 1970s, George Crumb produced a series of compositions that were highly successful, earning the composer numerous international performances, recordings, and awards.
	www.bridgerecords.com /gc_manage.htm (502 words)

	CDeMUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is George Crumb's 70th birthday album, and the three works it contains span the career of this noted American composer.
		The performances are by the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra and choir (Thomas Conlin, conductor), with the Warsaw Boy's Choir, Susan Narucki (soprano), Joseph Alessi (solo trombone), George Crumb and Paul Cesarczyk (bell ringers); David Sarobin (guitar) with George Crumb (percussion); Ann Crumb (soprano) and George Crumb (piano).
		Crumb's unusual instrumentation and unique style are well known and widely admired.
	www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?CurrentPage=4&keywords=br1 (1482 words)

	George Crumb MP3 Downloads - George Crumb Music Downloads - George Crumb Music Videos
		American modern composer George Crumb is known for his innovative means of composition, including his use of numerology and new playing techniques to generate keyboard and orchestral pieces like Ancient Voices of Children (1970).
		Crumb went on to earn his Master's at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he studied under Eugene Weigel.
		By this time, Crumb had already taught theory and analysis at Virginia's Hollins College, and served as assistant professor in piano and composition at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
	www.mp3.com /george-crumb/artists/798/biography.html (356 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A Killer 'Whale' From The George Crumb Trio
		George Crumb's neoimpressionist "Vox Balenae" ("Voice of the Whale"), one of the 20th century's most evocative pieces of music, received a brilliant performance Tuesday night at the Austrian Embassy.
		The George Crumb Trio, an Austrian group headquartered in Linz, vigorously and subtly demonstrated its right to use the name of the American composer with hints and fragments of melody reinforced by sounds that evoked seagulls, the mysterious underwater songs of whales, buoy bells and heaving ocean swells.
		The music is written for flute, cello and piano, plus a variety of percussion instruments, and the Crumb Trio, trained in the Central European classics but now known particularly for contemporary music, brought out every descriptive nuance.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A18530-2004Jan14?language=printer (292 words)

	Crumb, George Henry on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		CRUMB, GEORGE HENRY [Crumb, George Henry] 1929-, American composer, b.
		He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his orchestral Echoes of Time and the River (1967) and is particularly noted for his settings of the poems of Federico García Lorca, e.g., Ancient Voices of Children (1970).
		Crumb also taught at the Univ. of Colorado (1959-64) and the Univ. of Pennsylvania (1965-97).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/crumbg1eor.asp (396 words)

	Colorado College \| News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Crumb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award, began his relationship with Colorado College in 1973, when his composition “Makrokosmos,” Volume 1, received its world premier on the campus.
		Crumb will first appear at a reception on Monday, October 18 at the opening of an exhibit of his artful scores, accompanied by a running slide show of his composition books and his music.
		Lecture on “George Crumb: An Appreciation” by James Keller, p rogram annotator for the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, and former staff music writer for The New Yorker.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /news_events/releases/October2004/crumb.asp (657 words)

	Be Prepared
		Freeman, who says he has played virtually all of Crumb’s piano music (and is one of the soloists on the classic premiere recording of "Music for a Summer Evening"), says that "the piano is his instrument.
		In his long tenure at Penn, where the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer was a star fixture of an illustrious faculty, Crumb left his stamp on a generation of engaging new composers.
		This formulation is bound to attract dog lovers from across the Delaware Valley and beyond, but anyone interested in discovering the music of a composer whose sensational and innovative techniques have stood the test of time should also join in celebrating the life and work of this unique musical master.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/101499/feat.cov.piano.shtml (592 words)

	George Crumb Ensemble
		The Crumb Ensemble's tour program spans 55 years of George Crumb's creative output, and finishes with the composer himself taking center-stage and performing the percussion part to his duo for guitar and percussion- Mundus Canis.
		Now approaching his 75th birthday year, Crumb, the winner of Grammy and Pulitzer Prizes, continues to compose new scores that are enriching the musical lives of all who come in contact with his profoundly humanistic art.
		Crumb then composed two works for Starobin–a guitar chamber concerto entitled Quest (1994) and the duo Mundus Canis ("A Dog's World") (1998) for guitar and percussion.
	www.bridgerecords.com /gce_artists.htm (966 words)

	Phoenix USA Presents "George Crumb SONGS, DRONES AND REFRAINS OF DEATH, Roger Sessions CONCERTINO FOR CHAMBER ...
		George Crumb,who has created other musical settings of poetry by Federico Garciá Lorca, embraces these texts with a singularity of purpose.
		Even Crumb's manuscripts are crafted to reflect the words: in some cases the music is set down in various shapes (such as circles).
		In Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, for example, Crumb deftly uses the sounds of the jew's harp, water-filled crystals,guitars(both acoustic and electric),"altered" piano, and a cacophony of percussion instruments to highlight Lorca's textual canvas.
	www.phoenixcd.com /search/Detail.CFM?Master__Catnumber=PHCD137 (358 words)

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