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	Joan Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joan Tower (born 1938) is a contemporary American composer.
		Tower was pianist and founding member of the Naumburg Award winning Da Capo Chamber Players, which commissioned and premiered many of her early works, including her widely-performed Petroushskates.
		Tower's style is of the 20th century, and the 21st.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joan_Tower (365 words)

	Reviews of Joan Tower Concertos
		Joan Tower is one of America's most honored and performed composers, and the d'Note disc of solo concertos for various instruments offers some reasons for it.
		Joan Tower has become a major force in American music who has in the last two decades found her musical voice, and its a voice which speaks directly to audience and performer.
		Joan Tower, a leading contemporary American composer, first attracted wide notice in the '70s with impressionistic works: "sequoia," "Silver Ladders," "Black Topaz." That tone of voice carries over into abstract words such as the four concertos she wrote between 1984- and 1991.
	www.dnote.com /jtreview.htm (2393 words)

	Greenwich Village Orchestra - Made in America Project - Joan Tower, composer
		Joan Tower is the first composer chosen for the ambitious new "Ford Made in America" commissioning program, a collaboration of the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer.
		Tower's 2003-04 season featured two significant world premieres: DNA, a percussion quintet commissioned for Frank Epstein and his New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble; and her third string quartet, Incandescent, for the Emerson String Quartet performed at the opening of the new Frank Gehry-designed Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College.
		Tower's 1990 Grawemeyer Award-winning Silver Ladders was written during her 1985-88 St. Louis Symphony residency, and was subsequently choreographed in 1998 by Helgi Tomasson and the San Francisco Ballet.
	www.gvo.org /bios/jtower.html (888 words)

	James Wierzbicki / Joan Tower
		What it means, Joan Tower says, is that she devotes a great deal of energy to thinking about whatever hand-written music happens to be just to the left of the spot at which her pencil has ground to a halt.
		Tower's entry in both the Friedheim and Grawemeyer competitions was the same: a 22 1/2-minute piece titled ''Silver Ladders'' that was commissioned by the St. Louis Symphony and premiered in Powell Hall on a snowy evening in January of 1987.
		Joan Tower says that, all kidding aside, she is deeply honored to have been given this year's Grawemeyer Award.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /jameswierzbicki/tower.htm (2627 words)

	HSO - Joan Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Joan Tower is the first composer chosen for the ambitious new "Made in America" commissioning program, a collaboration of the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer.
		The success of Ms Tower's second string quartet, In Memory, premiered by the Tokyo String Quartet in 2002 at the 92nd Street Y was a highlight of the ensemble's recent tour of three continents.
		Tower's 1990 Grawemeyer Award-winning Silver Ladders was written during her 1985-88 St. Louis Symphony residency, but saw the premiere of its choreographed version in 1998 by Helgi Tomasson and the San Francisco Ballet.
	www.hollandsymphony.org /info/bio-joan-tower.htm (1019 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Quartet to play local premiere of 'For Daniel' trio
		Tower said that making changes in her scores, even after a work has been performed, is not unusual.
		Tower's wish was that her nephew could hear a performance of the trio.
		Tower was a founding member of the Da Capo Players in 1970, an ensemble that is still in the forefront in promoting contemporary music.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595080734,00.html (744 words)

	Joan Tower: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Joan Tower (born 1938) is a contemporary American composer composer quick summary:
		Tower's style is of the 20th century 20th century quick summary:
		Joan la barbara (born june 8, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joan_tower.htm (839 words)

	Making Music: Joan Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tower’s wide-ranging curiosity drives her to readings and conversations that energize the privacy of her studio and inform the compositions that she creates there.
		Tower further honed her instrumental skills in residencies with symphony orchestras (the Saint Louis Symphony in the 1980s and, currently, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s).
		Tower has also taken up the conductor’s baton, adding further to her understanding of the inner workings not only of the music, but also of the people who perform it.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_4120_pf.html (1390 words)

	Joan_Tower
		Tower was born in New York City and was the daughter of Harold Spear and his wife, Helen. Spear was a founding partner of Spear, Leeds, and Kellogg, a specialist firm on the New York Stock Exchange. She graduated from Mary A. Burnham School in Northhampton, Massachusetts and Pembroke College, now Brown University. Mrs.
		Tower’s first serious project in Aiken. The Towers were the last Whitney heirs to occupy this mansion, which was established at the turn of the century by W.C. Whitney, New York business tycoon and Secretary of the Navy.
		Tower was also an organizer of the International Festival at the University of South Carolina in 1980 and the Aiken Polo Centennial in 1982. She was named Woman of the Year by the Aiken Chamber of Commerce in 1979.
	www.aikenracinghalloffame.com /Joan_Tower.html (396 words)

	Orchestra of St. Luke's
		There is no intermission; Joan Tower introduces the composers, who talk briefly about their works, and a reception for the artists and audience follows the concert.
		Joan Panetti's "The instant gathers" is the first movement of a work for piano, violin, and cello written in homage to Joan Tower, with whom Panetti has been friends for years.
		Tower was born on September 6, 1938, in New Rochelle, New York.
	www.oslmusic.org /concerts/chamber/tower (797 words)

	Harkness Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Harkness Tower is a prominent Gothic structure at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut.
		The tower was constructed as part of Memorial Quadrangle donated to Yale by Anna Harkness in honor of her son.
		The title of this extraordinary collection of orchestral gems suggests both parody of and homage to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. But Joan Tower, as always, has her own artistic vision and nothing here is either a parody of or homage to anyo...
	www.freeglossary.com /Harkness_Tower (552 words)

	da capo Program Notes
		JOAN TOWER is one of this generation's most dynamic and colorful composers.
		In September 1985, Tower was appointed by conductor Leonard Slatkin to a three-year term as Composer-in-Residence with the St. Louis Symphony.
		Tower's cello concerto, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation, was performed and recorded by Lynn Harrell and the Saint Louis Symphony.
	www.k-c-p.com /dacapo/html/program_notes1.htm (2819 words)

	Joan Tower Instrumental Music NAXOS 8.559215 [HC]: Classical CD Reviews- October 2005 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tower’s second string quartet In Memory, originally planned as a tribute to a recently deceased friend, turned-out to be the composer’s reaction to the events of September 11, 2002 which happened about one month after she had started work on the piece.
		This is Tower in her outdoor mood suggesting a big landscape, "a Montana-like sky and maybe a lone wild stallion roaming freely..." (the composer’s words).
		Tower’s music is clearly of its time, closer to Bartók and Stravinsky than to Copland, and it is always colourful, well-crafted and immensely accessible.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/Oct05/Tower_8559215.htm (494 words)

	55th Festival of Contemporary Music - Guest Composer - Joan Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Quotes like these come fast and furious for composer Joan Tower, whose 60th birthday was celebrated in 1998 in over 25 cities throughout North America.
		Tower was the recipient of the Delaware Symphony's 1998 Alfred I. DuPont Award for Distinguished American Composers, and was inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		Her 1990 Grawemeyer Award-winning Silver Ladders (written during her 1985-88 St. Louis Symphony residency) was performed in its choreographed version by Helgi Tomasson and the San Francisco Ballet.
	festival.music.lsu.edu /fcm55/guest.html (161 words)

	Ford Made in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Joan describes her formative years in South America and its impact on her life, her view of the United States, and the inspiration for Made in America.
		An in-depth look into Joan's creative process, especially the way she thinks of her pieces as they are composed and then performed by musicians.
		Joan describes her own musical voice and the place of female composers in today's musical world.
	www.fordmadeinamerica.org /composer.shtml (1033 words)

	Sant Joan's tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sant Joan's tower, situated on top of the hill separating the beaches of Lloret and Fenals, dates from between the tenth and eleventh centuries.
		But it was a storm in 1923 which finally brought down the old castle tower.
		In 1992 the "homage" tower was restored, from where visitors can enjoy spectacular views, and in 2000 work began on excavating and cleaning up the central courtyard area to get more of an idea of the town's medieval history and to allow everyone interested in it to learn more about it.
	www.lloret.org /uk/castellsantjoan.htm (140 words)

	Three Questions before the First Night - Carson Cooman talks to Joan Tower about her new piece 'Chamber Dance'
		Joan Tower (born 1938) is one of America's most widely performed living composers of orchestral and instrumental music.
		Tower has been a faculty member at Bard College since 1972, where she is currently the Asher Edelman Professor of Music.
		Most recently, Joan Tower was the first composer chosen for the ambitious new 'Ford Made in America' commissioning program, a collaboration of the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2006/04/tower.htm (1338 words)

	Stepping Stones
		Tower sketched the first three minutes - the germinal material from which the other 18 minutes grew - to match the dance that she and Posin made up in her back yard.
		Tower was composer in residence for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 1988 as part of the Meet-the-Composer Orchestra Residency program.
		Tower has embraced several styles of composition over her career, her early works recall the pointillistic and rhythmically complex serial music she played with groups in the 1960s, and were scored exclusively for solo instruments or chamber ensembles.
	www.balletmet.org /Notes/Stones.html (1593 words)

	Joan Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tower "grew up dancing" as a child in South America—an experience that she says has made rhythm an important part of all her works.
		Tower's early music reflected the serialism of her teachers at Columbia, and the spare texture of that style went well with her strong interest in chamber music.
		Tower's music is sophisticated and technically demanding, yet extremely approachable—qualities that have made her a favorite of musicians and listeners alike.
	www.wwnorton.com /enjoy/shorter/composers/tower.htm (504 words)

	Google Search: zwilich Joan Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tower: Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman, Joan Tower, Marin Alsop,...
		Joan Tower is one of the select group of most notable composers of Classical Music.
		Joan Tower's Made in America is part of Ford Made in America, (www.
	www.searchplay.com /search.php?searchwords=zwilich+Joan+Tower&fwwords=Joan+Tower (222 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Muir has substance, depth, meaning
		For a decade, the Muir Quartet has been closely associated with composer Joan Tower, performing a number of her works— often with her at the piano — during their annual three-week residency in Park City.
		Tower wrote the work for her nephew Daniel, who passed away last December at the age of 48, after a long battle with a debilitating illness.
		The music is filled with the anguish, pain and suffering that Tower must have felt at seeing her nephew slowly dying.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595082424,00.html (479 words)

	FACULTY - Joan Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Joan Tower is the first composer chosen for the new “Made in America” commissioning program, a collaboration of the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer.
		In Memory, Tower’s third string quartet, was premiered by the Tokyo String Quartet in 2002 at the 92nd Street Y and was a highlight of the ensemble’s recent tour of three continents.
		The choreographed version of Tower’s 1990 Grawemeyer Award-winning Silver Ladders, written during her 1985—88 residency with the St. Louis Symphony, was premiered in 1998 by Helgi Tomasson and the San Francisco Ballet.
	www.bard.edu /ci/interior/fac-JT.html (921 words)

	Geometry.Net - Composers: Tower Joan
		The tower joan was held in allowed for othersto easily hear what happened in her cell without being seen.
		One of these towers is called the Joan of Arc Tower, however modern scholars feel she was not imprisoned in that particular tower.
		The tower Joan was held in allowed for others to easily hear what happened in her cell without being seen.
	www.geometry.net /detail/composers/tower_joan.html (1771 words)

	Art of the States: Petroushskates
		Tower was born in New Rochelle, New York and grew up in South America, where she became interested in rhythm and percussion.
		Tower's first orchestral work, Sequoia (1981), has been performed widely in the US and abroad; Silver Ladders (1986), written for the Saint Louis Symphony, won the 1990 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
		Tower currently serves as composer-in-residence for the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York City, co-artistic director of the Yale/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut, and composer-in-residence at the Summit Institute for the Arts and Humanities in Utah.
	www.artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=25 (535 words)

	Music Department opens with Joan Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The music of Joan Tower, one of this generation's most dynamic and colorful composers, will open the Department of Music's fall 1996 concert series Sept. 14 at 8:15 p.m.
		Tower's bold and energetic music has won large and enthusiastic audiences nationwide.
		Tower's appearance at Cornell is underwritten by Meet the Composer, a program supported by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
	www.news.cornell.edu /chronicle/96/9.12.96/JoanTower.html (341 words)

	Colorado College news release: Joan Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		COLORADO SPRINGS -- Joan Tower, one of the most significant American composers in the last 20 years, will have her works performed at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, November 4, in Colorado College's Packard Hall.
		Tower is currently the Asher Edelman Professor of Music at Bard College, the co-artistic director for the Yale/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and composer-in-residence at the Deer Park Valley Institute in Utah.
		Joan Tower will be spending a few days on campus meeting with students and faculty, attending rehearsals, and conducting the piece, Black Topez, at the November 4 performance.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /Publications/NewsReleases/Nov99/Tower.html (294 words)

	Alibris: Joan Tower
		This one-movement piece about death and loss was written in memory of one of Tower's friends, and later, of those who died in the September 11th terrorist attacks.
		Tower's Rain Waves, which musically explores the motion of a wave form, was written in 1997 as a commission by Michigan State University for the Verdehr Trio.
		Joan Tower's Clarinet Concerto, while performable on the standard A clarinet, takes advantage of...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Joan_Tower (666 words)

	Joan Tower, First Lady of American Composers
		Tower, who takes a highly pro-active feminist position when it comes to women performers and composers in today’s classical music marketplace, will surely not regard Thomas as a rival.
		Tower, however, readily acknowledges influences and she’s aware of sounding “American” — although just how music manages to sound that way is something that eludes easy definition.
		The Tower and Thomas presentations are placed like bookends on SummerFest La Jolla 2000(August 2 through 20), our city’s most important annual chamber music event — and, in fact, one of the finest chamber music festivals anywhere in America.
	www.sandiego-online.com /forums/dance/tower.stm (1078 words)

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