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  Lowell Liebermann
Liebermann was awarded the first American Composers' Invitational Award by the 11th Van Cliburn Competition after the majority of finalists chose to perform his Three Impromptus, which were selected from works submitted by forty-two contemporary composers.
Litton and the DSO recorded the symphony and the Liebermann Concerto for Flute and Orchestra for Delos, with Eugenia Zukerman the soloist for the concerto.
Liebermann: the Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, and the Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra.
www.kcballet.org /replist/composers/lowellliebermann.html   (833 words)

  
 Lowell Lieberman
Lowell Liebermann's compositions have been performed internationally by such orchestras as the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Cincinnati Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, L'Orchestre de Monte-Carlo, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Malmo Symphony Orchestra and many others.
Liebermann's many honors include a Charles Ives Fellowship and Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Grand Prize in the Delius International Composition Competition, Outstanding Composition Award from the Yamaha Music Foundation, as well as awards from ASCAP and BMI.
Liebermann can be heard conducting his two Piano Concertos with soloist Stephen Hough and the BBC Scottish Orchestra on the Hyperion label.
www.sai-national.org /phil/composers/llieberm.html   (557 words)

  
 Can this man save classical music? - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Liebermann's musical interests were ignited by parental influence and fanned by personal ambition.
At 14, Liebermann began to study composition with Ruth Schonthal, a distinguished pupil of Paul Hindemith, the foremost German composer between the two world wars, who was known for his neo-baroque style.
Liebermann had his orals before a formidable faculty jury of the giants of post-World War II modernism.
dir.salon.com /story/ent/music/feature/2002/11/21/liebermann/index.html   (774 words)

  
 NewMusicBox
Currently, Liebermann is writing a song cycle for the baritone Lester Lynch for a Marilyn Horne Foundation concert in April.
The poets Liebermann prefers to set--Whitman, Yeats, Crane, Randall Jarrell--use clear language that is not overly literary, he said.
Liebermann holds the opinion that the poem's language does not affect his musical language, and he characterizes the interaction between words and music as "actually kind of a parasitical relationship, a matter of the poet clicking with what you the composer want to do."
www.newmusicbox.org /article.nmbx?id=1640   (1011 words)

  
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This is a concert review of chamber works by Lowell Liebermann performed in the USC School of Music on Sept. 6.
Lowell Liebermann, a New Yorker born in 1961, is one of the younger composers in America who is getting a great deal of attention.
Liebermann writes chamber music with a symphonic concept, much of which is achieved by extraordinarily demanding piano parts.
www.free-times.com /Reviews/artsbeat/artsbeat091003.html   (408 words)

  
 Natural Born Composer: Lowell Liebermann
BUENA PARK, CA (December 20, 2002)—Being one of the world's most sought-after composers, Lowell Liebermann greets the 21st century with over 80 Opuses to his credit.
At the age of 15, Liebermann wrote his first major opus, Piano Sonata No. One, and his parents bought a Yamaha C7 Conservatory Grand Piano when he was a year younger.
Liebermann's youthful compositions are inspired by such composers as Dmitry Shostakovich, Frank Martin, and the later works of Franz Liszt.
www.giles.com /yamaha1/PR/mus/piano/liebermann_1202.htm   (586 words)

  
 Lowell Liebermann Première (+ Liszt, Schubert, Read Thomas, Hough, Wild), James Giles (piano), Wigmore Hall, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
There is no question, however, that Lowell Liebermann’s Sonata No.3 op.82 is of a very different magnitude to the other new works played in this recital.
Liebermann’s largest solo piano work to date, and his first piano sonata for 20 years, it has all the typical elements of lyrical brilliance and formidable virtuosity which were hallmarks of his two, incandescent piano concertos (recorded by Stephen Hough for Hyperion).
This is no better illustrated than in the middle part of this section with its low bass chords and high ringing, right-hand notes hit with penetrating (and piercing) force.
www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2003/Feb03/Lieberman164.htm   (1047 words)

  
 J S Bach, Lowell Liebermann, Anne Boyd & Theobald Boehm, RCM, 22nd March 2002 (CN)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
However, whilst these first and last pieces were essentially standard fare, it was in the middle two that Bicknell really relaxed and came into her own.
The Lowell Liebermann ‘Solilioquy’, commissioned in 1993 by Katherine Kemler, is an unaccompanied fantasy written without bar lines, allowing the musician real freedom in interpretation.
Composers (and Liebermann is no exception) happily ignore this problem leaving it in the court of the musician to try and breathe without interrupting phrases with audible gasps or leaving large, gaping holes in the music.
www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2002/Apr02/bicknell.htm   (593 words)

  
 Crutchfield Advisor - Miscellaneous A/V Reports - 5 Living Composers Worth Checking Out
Liebermann's style traces a straight-line progression from the post-romantic composers like Mahler and Richard Strauss, and is focused on creating expressive music with beautiful, singing melodies.
Liebermann’s star continues to rise, and among classical audiences his music generates the same kind of anticipation usually reserved for the next Howard Shore or John Williams score.
Lowell Liebermann wrote his second symphony while serving as the Dallas Symphony's composer-in-residence, and the work plays to all the strengths of the orchestra and chorus.
www.crutchfieldadvisor.com /ISEO-ryspcspd/reviews/20040817/living_composers.html?page=3   (591 words)

  
 Welcome to Presser Online
Liebermann was involved in a highly successful residency in the summer of 2000.
Liebermann was an invitation to write a work for Raymond Leppard’s farewell concert with the Indianapolis Symphony: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini was performed in May to great acclaim.
Liebermann’s music is listener- and (not least of all) singer-friendly, for the seeping, transparent orchestration allows the lyricism lots of room in which to unfold."
www.presser.com /Composers/info.cfm?Name=LOWELLLIEBERMANN   (3721 words)

  
 Joe Lieberman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lieberman defeated liberal Republican Lowell Weicker to win election to the United States Senate in 1988 and was re-elected in 1994 and 2000.
Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1988, scoring the nation's biggest political upset that year by a margin of just 10,000 votes after being backed by a coalition of conservative Democrats, allied with conservative Republicans who were upset with Republican incumbent Lowell Weicker's liberal voting record.
He has also said to have pledged to spend over $1 million of his personal funds on the campaign, and has apparently received the backing of former U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker, who was unseated by Lieberman in 1988.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Lieberman   (1973 words)

  
 New York Phiharmonic: Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Lowell Liebermann's accomplishments as a composer have greatly expanded the contemporary classical canon.
Liebermann's opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray, premiered to critical acclaim at L'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and this February, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra-where he currently serves as composer-in-residence-premiered his Symphony No. 2.
Liebermann assumes the additional post of composer-in-residence for the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, summer home of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
www.yaddo.org /Yaddo/nyphilharmonic.shtml   (687 words)

  
 Artist Page - Lowell Liebermann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Lowell Liebermann was born in New York City on 22 February 1961.
Liebermann's Second Piano Concerto, commissioned by the Steinway Foundation and premièred by Stephen Hough and the National Symphony conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, was called by the Baltimore Sun 'perhaps the best piece in the genre since Samuel Barber's Concerto'.
Mr Liebermann's many honours include a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and awards from ASCAP and BMI.
www.hyperion-records.co.uk /artist_page.asp?name=liebermann   (320 words)

  
 CD Spotlight. Strongly neo-romantic - Chamber music by Lowell Liebermann, reviewed by Carson Cooman. 'The playing is ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This disc is the first release devoted entirely to the string chamber music of American composer Lowell Liebermann (born 1961).
For those who listen to a great deal of Liebermann's music another issue that can arise is a large harmonic sameness from work to work.
Unlike many contemporary composers (and like very many 18th and 19th century composers), Liebermann's music is almost never programmatic and, works are nearly always given simple titles based on their instrumentation or form.
www.mvdaily.com /articles/2005/01/liebermann1.htm   (365 words)

  
 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra featuring Steven Hough, piano
Lowell Liebermann is a 36-year-old New Yorker with a knack for writing punchy, accessible music of the tonal variety.
He is a rising star of his generation because of this ability to speak to the nostalgic tastes of the concert-going public.
Liebermann is a very talented composer; this music has shape, structure and texture of a highly refined nature.
citypaper.net /articles/112097/dq7.shtml   (227 words)

  
 Flute Sheet Music - Lowell Liebermann - Five Pieces (Instrumental Folio - Flute)
Melancholy - Composed by: Lowell Liebermann - From: Op.
Hommage A Faure - Composed by: Lowell Liebermann - From: Op.
Hommage A Alkan - Composed by: Lowell Liebermann - From: Op.
www.encoremusic.com /1040354.html   (368 words)

  
 David Korevaar - Discography
"Liebermann's music is unmistakably evocative of any number of past composers — Schumann, Alkan, Scriabin, Satie, Barber, early Copland, and Bartók being prime candidates — yet it manages somehow to escape being overtly or blatantly derivative.
I suppose this is another way of saying that Liebermann's music is accessible and falls graciously on the ear, which seems to be a characteristic of much post-modernist music, especially American, being written these days.
This is Volume 2 of Liebermann's solo piano works, which now completes all of the solo piano music written before 2001.
www.davidkorevaar.com /albums.shtml   (1427 words)

  
 James Giles: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The weightiest work was Lowell Liebermann's (b.1961) Third Piano Sonata, based on alteration of meditative melodic moments and fast, slightly jazzy eruptions.
The Liebermann, Thomas, and Wild pieces are the result of a major commissioning grant from the American Pianists Association through the Christel Award.
At age forty-one, Lowell Liebermann is one of today's most widely performed and commissioned composers.
www.jamesgiles.net /news.htm   (3985 words)

  
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American composer Lowell Liebermann is popping up everywhere these days.
On "The Piano Album 2" Hough plays Liebermann's Gargoyles, a nine-minute piece in four movements premiered at New York's Lincoln Center in 1989, which continues the technical innovations of Ravel and Prokofiev.
Coincidentally, Hyperion has just released Stephen Hough's recording of Liebermann's two piano concertos, the second of which will be performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Montreal Symphony on May 19 and 20, 1998.
www.scena.org /lsm/sm3-1/sm3-1CDHough.html   (370 words)

  
 Liebermann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bruno Franz Leopold Liebermann (1759-1844), Catholic theologian (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Carl Liebermann (Carl Lieberman) (1842-1914), chemist (co-discoverer of Alizarin synthese), see Carl Gräbe
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liebermann   (96 words)

  
 ITG News: Smith to Premiere Concerto
The New York Philharmonic will present the world premiere of Lowell Liebermann's Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, Op.64 as part of its subscription season on May 25, 26, and 27, 2000.
Lowell Liebermann is one of only a handful of young American composers in their thirties whose music has garnered numerous performances and has won acceptance with audiences.
Liebermann recently attended the February premiere of his Symphony No. 2 in Dallas.
www.trumpetguild.org /news/news00/liebermann.htm   (224 words)

  
 ezFolk Media Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Liebermann's music is so well-conceived and developed -- each movement is an exploration in sound, showing the color and possibilities of the flute and piccolo.
Of course, Galway's playing is very clear, showing changes in tone colors, beautiful phrasing, clean ariculation, and an overall understanding of the works as a whole.
by Lowell Liebermann, Lowell Liebermann, Glasgow BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Hough
www.ezfolk.com /cgi-bin/ae.pl?asinsearch=B00000DFKH   (255 words)

  
 SOLI September 2000 Concert Program Notes & Bios
As if all this were not enough, Liebermann spent the summer at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, where he was Composer-in-Residence and had many of his works played by soloists, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and chamber musicians, including the composer himself as collaborative pianist.
Liebermann has found a variety of ways to say what he wants within a tonally-based style and has already published 69 numbered works in nearly every form, including an operatic treatment of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Liebermann include two string quartets; two sonatas for cello and piano; quintets for piano and strings and piano, clarinet string trio; two pieces for violin and viola; and sonatas for violin and piano, viola and piano, bass and piano, flute and piano, flute and guitar and flute and harp.
www.solichamberensemble.com /sept_00.html   (1494 words)

  
 VARIATIONS Sound Recording vaa0999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Liebermann, Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra, Op.
Liebermann, Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra, Op.
Liebermann, Six pieces from Album for the Young, Op.
www.dlib.indiana.edu /variations/html/vaa0999.html   (123 words)

  
 JS Online:Finding a home for a world premiere
Lowell Liebermann's Piano Concerto No. 3 will debut on this weekend's program.
Liebermann's profile is high in the classical music world; press from all over the country came to Milwaukee for "Dorian Gray."
Even though Biegel and Liebermann had been classmates at Juilliard, the pianist felt a little shy about approaching the composer.
www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=422053   (773 words)

  
 OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: The Picture of Dorian Gray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Lowell Liebermann's opera offers a fresh perspective on a beloved novel.
Furthermore, Liebermann's opera reveals a leitmotif inherent in this historical overview of Dorian Gray in the arts: the dramatic and enduring power of Wilde's words.
Despite a lifelong fascination with English aristocracy, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 16 October, 1854, into the most Irish of middle class families.
www.operaworld.com /special/dorian1.shtml   (1578 words)

  
 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra | Purchase Tickets | Calendar | Performance Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Perhaps best known to Milwaukee audiences for the American premiere of his opera The Picture of Dorian Gray, performed by the MSO and the Florentine Opera on February 5, 1999, Lowell Liebermann is also celebrated for his first two piano concertos.
Particularly well suited to write piano concertos, Liebermann began to study piano at age eight and composition at fourteen.
Liebermann also studied conducting with Laszlo Halasz and now enjoys an active career as composer, pianist and conductor.
www.milwaukeesymphony.org /purchasetickets/calendar/view.asp?id=150   (1559 words)

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