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	Henry Brant
		Henry Brant (born September 15, 1913) is a highly significant California-based composer of art music based on spatialization[?] and limited aleatory.
		Brant is credited as the inventor of contemporary spatial music[?]; i.e., music where players or groups of players are distributed over a large performance space, or asked to move about within the space.
		Brant was born in Montreal in Canada and studied first at the McGill Conservatorium[?] (1926-29) and then in New York City (1929-34).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Henry_Brant.html (126 words)

	Carl Fischer Music Publishing - Concert Dept
		Henry Brant, America’s pioneer explorer and practitioner of 20th Century spatial music, was born in Montreal in 1913 of American parents and began to compose at the age of eight.
		In 1950 Brant began to write spatial music in which the planned positioning of the performers throughout the hall, as well as on stage, is an essential factor in the composing scheme.
		Brant’s principal works since 1950 are all spatial; his catalogue now comprises nearly 100 such works, each for a different instrumentation, each requiring a different spatial deployment in the hall, and with maximum distances between groups prescribed in every case.
	www.carlfischer.com /Fischer/brantbio.html (1326 words)

	Classical Music Page
		Jacob Glick, viola solo; Catherine Satterlee, mezzo-soprano; Henry Brant, organ; Phyllis Martin Pearson, vibraphone and piano; Marianne Finckel, harpsichord; Louis Calabro, timpani and chimes.
		Henry Brant is one of the most singular figures in contemporary music.
		Inspired by Berlioz and Ives, Brant has spent much of his composing career exploring the effects of three-dimensionality on music (it's no surprise that his son is a sculptor).
	www.msu.edu /user/gualtie3/HenryBrant.htm (485 words)

	Issue 3, Article 13 - Henry Brant Tribute
		The thought of explaining to him that Brant was influential in the development of spatial music, and that he's received numerous awards and is very well-known in the music sphere came to mind, but I didn't want to sound like someone who was trying to impress her personal taste upon a friend.
		Henry Brant, however, doesn't reside in the fistfights at the theater realm of composers, nor does he reside in the cozy warmth of traditional European composition techniques.
		Henry Brant has been known to stand in the middle of the audience or at the back of the audience so as to be able to conduct all instruments.
	www.wesleyan.edu /wmj/issue3/13.html (681 words)

	Henry Brant - Biography - AOL Music
		Through the Depression and war years, Brant kept himself afloat through conducting and arranging on radio and working on independent films (he was an orchestrator for Pare Lorentz's unit at the WPA) and for swing dance bands, including that of Benny Goodman.
		Brant continued along these lines, producing works of gigantic proportions, for example his Orbits (1979), scored for soprano, organ, and 80 trombones.
		Brant also garnered much praise for his orchestration of Ives' Concord Sonata (1995), on which he had worked for nearly 30 years.
	music.aol.com /artist/henry-brant/2969/biography (491 words)

	Charles Amirkhanian Interviews Henry Brant
		Since 1950, Brant has pioneered spatial music, based on the planned positioning of performing groups throughout the hall as well as onstage, as an essential factor in his composing schemes.
		On Friday, August 31, 2001, Brant flew with his wife Kathy Wilkowski from their Santa Barbara home to San Francisco to meet briefly with Maestro Thomas to discuss the seating arrangements in the hall of the many different ensembles arranged throughout the architectural space and to test Davies Hall’s Ruffatti pipe organ.
		CA: Henry, I gather that one of the ideas of "spatial music" is that you can have a lot of things going on, but if they’re not all compacted together on the stage, everybody’s perception is enhanced.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Brantinterview.shtml (945 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		HENRY BRANT, America's pioneer explorer and practitioner of acoustic spatial music, was born in Montreal in 1913 of American parents and began to compose at the age of eight.
		In 1950 Brant began to compose spatial music in which the planned positioning of the performers throughout the hall, as well as on stage, is an essential factor in the composing scheme.
		Brant's Pulitzer Prize-winning Ice Field, for large orchestral groups and organ, was commissioned by Other Minds for the San Francisco Symphony and was premiered by the San Francisco Symphony in December, 2001.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=1019 (458 words)

	Continental Harmony
		Santa Barbara, CA Henry Brant, America's pioneer practitioner of 20th century spatial music, began to compose at the age of eight.
		In 1950, Brant began to write spatial music, in which the planned positioning of the performers throughout the hall and on stage is an essential factor in the composing scheme.
		Brant's catalog of works in the years since includes nearly 100 spatial works, each for a different instrumentation and each requiring a different deployment in the performance space.
	www.continentalharmony.org /composers_detail.cfm?oid=1540 (382 words)

	HENRY BRANT: Short Bio
		Brant’s mastery of spatial composing technique gives him access to textures of unprecedented polyphonic and/or polystylistic complexity, providing maximum resonance in the hall and increased clarity of musical detail for the listener.
		Brant received an ASCAP/NISSIM Award in 1985, a Fromm Foundation grant in 1989, and a Koussevitzky Foundation award in 1995 as well as Ford Foundation and NEA awards.
		In the early 1950’s Brant came to feel that “single-style music…could no longer evoke the new stresses, layered insanities, and multi-directional assaults of contemporary life on the spirit.” At this juncture Brant began to explore spatial music, and his principal large-scale works and chamber music since 1950 are all spatial.
	www.jaffe.com /BrantBio.html (1044 words)

	NewMusicbox
		Brant himself was at the organ as soloist for the premiere.
		Brant, 88, says he never expected to win an award of this kind, but is, none-the-less, pleased with the recognition.
		Brant began writing spatial works in 1950 to express what he felt were the "multi-directional assaults of contemporary life on the spirit," and Ice Field falls right in line with that philosophy.
	www.newmusicbox.org /printerfriendly.nmbx?id=3850 (2032 words)

	Henry Brant
		Henry Brant is considered to be one of the principal pioneers of 20th Century spatial music, writing work in which the planned positioning of the performers throughout the hall, as well as on stage, is an essential factor in the composing scheme.
		Brant's work has spanned the spectrum of styles and genres from tone poems and chamber music to ritual oratorios and symphonies.
		At age 88, Brant remains a dynamic and prolific figure in modern music: his 1997 spatial work, Festive Eighty, had its first performance in Central Park in July, 1997, and in Vienna's Musikverein, the Vienna Radio Orchestra performed the premiere of Brant's completion of Schubert's B minor Symphony on October 14, 1997.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Brant.shtml (341 words)

	The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 2, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
		Composer Henry Brant is a significant figure in contemporary music and, in 2006, is the second to last man standing who participated in the first wave of American modernism (Elliott Carter is the other).
		Brant has never been well represented on recordings but, thanks to Innova, listeners are finally getting a comprehensive overview of the extensive catalog of this pioneer of American avant-garde, whose couple of hundred works span from the early '30s to the present time.
		As Brant has always trod his own path, reinventing the wheel with each new piece, it is inevitable that he should turn out a few duds, and unfortunately the opening work on Innova's The Henry Brant Collection, Vol.
	www.emusic.com /album/10827/10827608.html (619 words)

	Phoenix USA Presents "Henry Brant KINGDOM COME/MACHINATIONS".
		In most chronicles of 20th-century music, Henry Brant is given a special place as an innovator whose works explore the "spatial" possibilities of music.
		In live performances, Brant asks that one orchestra be onstage, the other in the balcony (for the recording, they were recorded in separate sessions).
		Brant is a significant figure in the history of American music, and I hope that this disc either signals or starts a reawakening of interest in his work.
	www.phoenixcd.com /search/Detail.CFM?Master__Catnumber=PHCD127 (310 words)

	Henry Brant
		Henry Brant: Born in Montreal in 1913 of American parents, Brant began composing at the age of eight.
		In 1950, Brant began to write "spatial" music, in which the positioning of performers throughout the hall, as well as on stage, is an essential factor in the composing scheme.
		In explaining his compositional techniques, Brant wrote that he had "come to feel that single-style musicians could no longer evoke the new stresses, layered insanities, and multi-directional assaults of contemporary life on the spirit." He regards space as music's "fourth dimension," supplementing pitch, time measurement, and timbre.
	www.eroica.com /phoenix/jdt115-hb.html (316 words)

	Henry Brant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brant was born in Montreal, Canada of American parents in 1913, Henry Brant began composing at the age of eight, and studied first at the McGill Conservatorium (1926-29) and then in New York City (1929-34).
		Brant continues to experiment with new combinations of acoustic timbres, even creating entire works for instrumental family groups of a single timbre: Orbits for 80 trombones, Ghosts and Gargoyles for 9 flutes, and others for multiple trumpets and guitars.
		A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Brant was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Ice Field (2001).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Brant (667 words)

	Art of the States: Henry Brant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Montreal, Canada, Brant began composing at the age of eight using his own homemade instruments.
		In the late 1940's Brant taught at Columbia University and the Juilliard School, and from 1957 to 1980 at Bennington College in Vermont.
		Brant is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Ford, Fromm, Guggenheim, and Koussevitzky Foundations, American Music Center, and National Endowment for the Arts.
	artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/compbio.pl?compname=branthenry (287 words)

	Carl Fischer Music Publishing - Concert Dept (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brant, the primary explorer and practitioner of spatial music, was born in Montreal in 1913 of American parents.
		Dispersing performers (voices and/or instruments) throughout the performance space did not begin with Henry Brant, but he has both expanded and refined the concept, in some cases pitting whole ensembles against one another in vast frescoes of sound, designed for outdoor performance.
		A multicultural and polystylist, long before these terms were even in current usage, Brant has incorporated Jazz, Gamelan music, Gospel, Bluegrass, African and Caribbean drumming into his works to an extent and degree unparalleled in the music of our or any time.
	www.carlfischer.com /fischer/brantnews.html (590 words)

	Browse by Artist: BRANT, HENRY
		It's just that the scope and magnitude of Brant's work, its seemingly inexhaustible creative intensity, its expressive deployment of musicians in space, its fantastic combinations of tonal flavors, and, most importantly, its intrinsic listenability, would seem to make it a prime candidate for big-screen exploitation.
		It is with the development of his use of space as an intrinsic part of his musical vocabulary that Brant established himself as a major figure in American music of the twentieth century.
		Brant wrote 'Angels and Devils' (1931), now recognized as the first flute orchestra or 'flute choir' piece of the twentieth century, in 1931 at the age of 18, after having heard a performance of Stravinksy's Symphony of Psalms and being struck by the unique use of five flutes in the orchestration.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/brant.henry.html (581 words)

	Henry Brant : Kingdom Come (1970) for Orchestra, Circus Band and Organ / Machinations - Listen, Review and Buy at ...
		Kingdom Come is a truly zany, tragi-comic and outrageous musical social commentary in the tradition of Brant's compositions that explore spatial distribution as a musical parameter.
		Thus the two orchestras function, or rather dysfunction as pathological states or beings -- the stage (symphonic) orchestra "celebrates life in the human pressure cooker" by playing stridently, in high tension and "expresses its anxieties in long frenzied phrases"; the mechanistic, compulsive balcony (circus) orchestra is the other side of this crazed, violent interchange.
		In "Machinations," all the instruments (timpani, chimes, zylophone, glockenspiel, organ, Eb flute, ceramic flute, double ocarina, double flageolet and harp) are played by the composer, and it is an example of Brant's "instant composing." The improvisations are expressively wild and free and the vari-speed manipulations are wonderfully disorienting.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,367394,00.html (436 words)

	Henry Brant - The Henry Brant Collection Volume 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brant specializes in spatial music, which is created by the effect of placing different performing ensembles throughout a space.
		Incidentally, some of these performing environments are quite large; Brant once composed a piece for musicians on gondolas, who traveled throughout Venice by water in order to achieve the necessary spatial effects.
		I have fond memories of a New York performance where musicians were seated in every place conceivable in the hall: The balcony, the front, the back, offstage, and even behind closed doors in the hallway.
	www.copperpress.com /new/reviews/html/brantv1.html (304 words)

	The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 1, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
		Like Carter, Brant was in the first generation of American composers to benefit from the direct influence of the music of Charles Ives.
		Recordings of Brant's works have been few and far between, and known only to a tight minority of the hardest-core collectors of American contemporary music.
		Brant comes right out of the center of that tradition -- while there is plenty of music on this collection that sounds unusual and out of the way, there is little that sounds unfamiliar or difficult to grasp.
	www.emusic.com /album/10812/10812584.html (698 words)

	American Mavericks: An interview with Henry Brant
		Henry and his wife Kathy Wilkowski on the front porch.
		Henry prefers to stand, even when playing the piano.
		Those are real mavericks and Henry Cowell, more because of his ideas and what he's done for a music written in the Americas, than for the actual example of his music.
	musicmavericks.publicradio.org /features/interview_brant.html (5251 words)

	Jazz News: Spatial Music Pioneer Henry Brant Featured in New CD Series
		Brant has since composed over 100 pieces that similarly involve multiple groups of musicians spaced throughout the auditorium (or sometimes gym, park, church or canal).
		The latest installment, The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 3, features a work Brant wrote at the age of 90 for Milwaukee's Present Music ensemble supplemented with four choirs, two organs, and five trumpets all perched around the cathedral.
		Brant resides in Santa Barbara, Calif. and is finishing a treatise on orchestration techniques.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=8521 (277 words)

	Henry Brant - Classical music composer
		Born in Montreal in 1913 of American parents, Brant began composing at the age of eight.
		In explaining his compositional techniques, Brant wrote that he had "come to feel that single-style musici [...] could no longer evoke the new stresses, layered insanities, and multi-directional assaults of contemporary life on the spirit." He regards space as music's "fourth dimension," supplementing pitch, time measurement, and timbre.
		Although he has continued to experiment with new combinations of acoustic timbres, Brant has not used electronic materials or permitted amplification of his music.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/brant (816 words)

	Henry Brant - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Henry Brant is considered to be one of the principal pioneers of 20th Century spatial music, writing work in which the planned positioning of the performers...
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	Henry Brant - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: One of the great iconoclasts within modern American music, Canadian-born composer Henry Brant is a radical figure whose work is impossible to classify.
		His 2001 composition Ice Field won Brant the Pulitzer Prize for music.
		It may take another century to sort out, and fully grasp, this prolific and innovative 20th century composer's output.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/868/Henry-Brant/30087553.html (430 words)

	Henry Brant MP3 Downloads - Henry Brant Music Downloads - Henry Brant Music Videos
		~ Uncle Dave Lewis, All Music Guide', 'One of the great iconoclasts within modern American music, Canadian-born composer Henry Brant is a radical figure whose work is impossible to classify.
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		Henry Brant Plays Michael Ingham Sings Charles Ives
	www.mp3.com /henry-brant/artists/2463/summary.html (405 words)

	Amazon.com: Kingdom Come/Machinations: Music: Henry Brant,Gerhard Samuel,Robert G. Hughes,Oakland Symphony ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry Brant Sheet Music — Buy the sheet music for Henry brant at Sheet Music Plus.
		Henry Brant is probably most famous for his explorations of music involving spatially separated orchestras and ensembles.
		Indeed, many of his innovations in this direction preceded European avant-garde rivals--as the rather strident inlay note points out.
	www.amazon.com /Kingdom-Come-Machinations-Henry-Brant/dp/B000009LUW (1003 words)

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