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	Ralph Shapey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ralph Shapey (March 12, 1921 - June 13, 2002) was an American composer and conductor.
		Although Shapey's style is characterized by angularity, irony, and technical rigor, it eschews the pointillism, anti-emotionalism, and detached austerity of much twelve-tone music (e.g., Webern, Babbitt).
		Shapey was dubbed by critics Leonard Meyer and Bernard Jacobson as a "radical traditionalist," which pleased him immensely--he held a deep respect for the masters of the past, whom he regarded as his finest teachers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Shapey (488 words)

	The Musical Times: Ralph Shapey 1921-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Shapey thought of himself as ‘a classicist structurally, a romantic emotionally and a modernist harmonically’.
		Shapey was born in Philadelphia and began violin lessons at the age of seven and composition at nine.
		Shapey, naturally, received many awards, though the Pulitzer Prize, for his orchestral summa, Concerto Fantastique (1989), commissioned in honour of the joint centenaries of the University of Chicago and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, famously eluded him when it was withdrawn at the last moment.
	www.musicaltimes.co.uk /archive/0203/shapey.html (473 words)

	Contempo - Founder/Music Director Laureate, Ralph Shapey
		Born in Philadelphia on March 12, 1921, Ralph Shapey began musical training in violin at age 7.
		Though Shapey accepted a conducting position at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963, he moved to the composition faculty of the University of Chicago as a Professor of Music just a year later.
		As a conductor, Shapey led numerous ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the London Symphony, the London Sinfonietta and the New York Philharmonic Chamber Music Society.
	contempo.uchicago.edu /shapey.html (291 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts news \| Obituary: Ralph Shapey
		In truth, Shapey, was perhaps America's most relentlessly self-challenging composer, his catalogue having roughly 200 pieces for a huge range of ensembles.
		Whether or not this gesture had any direct impact, Shapey received a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, won the Kennedy Centre Friedheim composition award for his Concerto for Cello, Piano and String Orchestra, came within a hair of the Pulitzer Prize and was named to the prestigious Academy of Arts and Letters.
		Although his native Philadelphia is hardly a hotbed of radicalism, Shapey, the son of eastern European immigrants, grew up at a time when Leopold Stokowski was conducting the works of revolutionaries such as Edgar Varese with the Philadelphia Orchestra in many American and world premieres.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,11711,739015,00.html (713 words)

	Ralph Shapey, Composer
		As a composer, Ralph Shapey always pursued excellence in his own style, regardless of trends; and in a world that frequently places at least as much emphasis on the personality and image of the artist as on his work, he uncompromisingly held the idea that the music, once created, should stand on its own.
		In his conducting career, Ralph Shapey led many ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the London Sinfonietta, with whom he recorded his Rituals for Orchestra.
		Under Shapey's leadership, the Contemporary Chamber Players became a highly respected group, establishing a reputation for excellence in their commitment to the presentation of new music.
	www.collagenewmusic.org /shapey.html (455 words)

	Guardian \| Ralph Shapey
		Ralph Shapey, who has died at 81, was one of the fiercest American-modernist lions He composed music to the end of his life, whether the world could cope with it or not.
		That incident, reported by William R Trotter in his 1995 biography of Mitropoulos, is one of many that earned the composer a reputation for epitomising the self-indulgent "who cares if you listen?" mentality attributed to the American avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s.
		Shapey, whose father was a carpenter, was educated at Olney High School.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4434935-110427,00.html (702 words)

	Review/Concert; Honoring the Composer Ralph Shapey - New York Times
		Ralph Shapey remains one of our crustiest, most original and, in his sometimes dour way, appealing composers.
		Shapey's 70th birthday, he was honored at Town Hall by a concert of his own music and that of other composers he feels close to.
		Shapey and a few others are able to invest gestures that sound sterile with emotive meaning.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D9133BF93BA25750C0A967958260 (304 words)

	Ralph Shapey, “radical traditionalist” composer, 1921-2002
		Ralph Shapey, an original and influential American composer who united avant-garde and romantic sensibilities, died today of natural causes after a long illness.
		Shapey served as the Chamber Players’ music director and conductor for 27 years and taught many eminent composers, including Pulitzer Prize winner Shulamit Ran, now a Professor in Music and the College at the University of Chicago.
		Shapey is survived by Charlston, his son Max, from his previous marriage with painter Vera Klement, and their two grandchildren.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/02/020613.shapey.shtml (891 words)

	Joel Krosnick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Recently released was a disc of the cello and piano sonatas of Johannes Brahms.
		Especially noteworthy is a recording devoted to the cello and piano music of Ralph Shapey; soon to be released is a disc of Forgotten Americans, including music of Ernst Bacon, Hall Overton, Ben Weber, and Otto Luening.
		One of the recitals was a memorial to the composer Ralph Shapey, involving among other Shapey works the [[Sonata for Cello and Piano (1954)]], the Kroslish Sonata, and the Songs of Life, as well as the premiere of the Duo Variations for violin and cello, a composition from 1985.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joel_Krosnick (729 words)

	village voice > news > Kyle Gann by
		But Shapey's legendary querulousness was in part caused by the fact that contemporary music had moved in directions he found sterile.
		Shapey got hired at Chicago in 1964; Feldman at SUNY Buffalo in 1972 (both without college degrees; Shapey liked to joke about how "iggerant" he was).
		Shapey didn't arrive at as personal or instantly recognizable a language as Feldman's, but his music has the same delicate touch, the same exquisite ear for harmony, the same painterly sense of balanced chords, though in a thornier and—truly—muscular idiom.
	www.villagevoice.com /news/0228,gann,36163,1.html (761 words)

	Juilliard \| The Juilliard Journal Online
		The duo will present a tribute to their close friend and great American composer Ralph Shapey, who was born in 1921 and passed away last June.
		In the Songs of Life and the Kroslish Sonate (and in the 1983 Krosnick Soli), the C string of the cello is tuned down to A, reaching to a commanding and deep tone, in an already demanding cello part often rooted in four-pitch chords.
		Shapey received the MacArthur Prize (1982); first prize in the Kennedy Center Friedheim Competition (1990, for Concerto for Cello, Piano, and String Orchestra); and the Paul Fromm Award in 1993.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/730journal_story_0211.asp (595 words)

	The Harbinger. Modern Composers. March 28, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Shapey was a true child prodigy as a violinist and also as a conductor and composer.
		Mitropoulos commissioned a work for orchestra by Shapey, and the rehearsal and performance of that piece marked the beginning of Shapey's reputation for being a difficult conductor as well as a difficult composer.
		Though he was considered a virtuoso conductor and composer, Shapey was not well known by the public during the 1940s and 50s.
	www.theharbinger.org /xviii/000328/forbus.html (431 words)

	Ralph Shapey - Evocation II for Cello, Piano & Percussion (1979); Evocation IV for Violin, Cello, Piano & Percussion ...
		Shapey's gaze at the world is not a pleasant one, his music is uncompromising yet full of conviction for the human situation, the attenuation of the human emotions.
		Shapey's timbres alone are fantastic, the attacks and the sputtering of the musical statement is powerful.
		Shapey controls all this like a prophet over his flock,with an affinity for the classical canon of musical form, duos,trios, and cadenzas.
	www.truefresco.org /bookshop/viewproduct.php?country=us&asin=B00000K08X (496 words)

	Amazon.com: Works By Bolcom/Druckman/Shapey/Wright: Music: William Bolcom,Jacob Druckman,Ralph Shapey,Maurice Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ralph Shapey withdrew his music from public performance until 1976,fed up with the American music scene, of cliques, and politics to get a piece played,the indifference toward creativity and real culture, not Hollywood's market concoctions in this country.
		Shapey's music has a transgressive side that not all is right with the state of the world.
		Shapey was a student of Stefan Wolpe, and was a close friend of Edgar Varese and Willem de Kooning, all that seems to be part of the Quintet.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000030EJ?v=glance (739 words)

	Welcome to Presser Online
		Shapey creates a jagged, shrieky instrumental hubbub and yet has you marveling at its sheer transparencyâ¦ and the audible fact that it all proceeds in purposefully measured phrases to exciting destinations.
		Shapey is very independent, and so is his powerfully cast music of which this is a striking example.
		Shapey has produced is a composition of abstract expressionism that seems to lay bare the most secret and elemental doubts, yearnings, torments, and despairs of the human soulâ¦"
	www.presser.com /Composers/info.cfm?Name=RALPHSHAPEY (6917 words)

	Earplay 05-06 Season
		Born in Philadelphia, Ralph Shapey (1921-2005) showed early talent as a violinist, conductor, and composer.
		Compositionally, Shapey always pursued excellence in his own style, regardless of trends; and in a world that frequently places at least as much emphasis on the personality and image of the artist as on his work, he uncompromisingly held the idea that the music, once created, should stand on its own.
		This commitment, along with a refusal to compromise his integrity and disillusionment with the musical climate of the time, led him to withdraw his compositions from 1969 to 1976, believing that people were unable to appreciate and perform his work for its own sake.
	www.earplay.org /this_season/concert1.html (1694 words)

	Nov. 12 Shapey tribute concert will feature his ‘Songs of Life’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The musical legacy of Ralph Shapey, the late composer and Professor Emeritus in Music, will be honored at 7:30 p.m.
		Shapey, a controversial and influential American composer who united avant-garde and romantic sensibilities, and who was involved with the University Department of Music for more than 40 years, was 81 when he died in June of this year.
		Also allied with Shapey and performing in the tribute concert is his long-time pianist Gilbert Kalish.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /021107/shapey.shtml (439 words)

	Capstone Records: Twilight Remembered
		One of the strongest works is a piece I also recorded with my flute and percussion duo, Movement of Varied Moments by Ralph Shapey.
		Ralph Shapey deftly mixes flute and vibraphone in Movement of Varied Moments.
		The activity is varied on a different scale in David Heuser's Still Life with Fruit, with a panoply of percussion and flute engaging in fleet conversation.
	www.capstonerecords.org /CPS-8721.html (1045 words)

	Ralph Shapey Biography / Biography of Ralph Shapey Biography
		Beginning in the early 1950s, the American composer, conductor, and teacher Ralph Shapey (born 1921) devoted himself to the cause of new music.
		Ralph Shapey was born on March 12, 1921, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-ralph-shapey (237 words)

	Ralph Shapey - American composer dies on 13 June 2002
		Ralph Shapey - American composer dies on 13 June 2002
		American composer, teacher and freelance violinist Ralph Shapey died in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 13 June 2002, aged 81.
		Born in Philadelphia, Ralph Shapey studied violin from the age of 16 with Emanuel Zetlin, served in the war, and then studied composition with Stefan Wolpe in New York.
	www.mvdaily.com /news/item.cgi?id=103180 (139 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		Next Saturday night (February 16), the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago will mark the 80th birthday of its founder Ralph Shapey with a performance of PRAISE, his oratorio for bass-baritone, double chorus and chamber ensemble.
		Ralph Shapey is one the those maverick American composers whose work stands as a monument to rugged individualism.
		As a composer, Shapey has always pursued excellence in his own style, regardless of trends; and in a world that frequently places at least as much emphasis on the personality and image of the artist as on his work, he uncompromisingly holds the idea that the music, once created, should stand on its own.
	www.sequenza21.com /021102.html (2222 words)

	The Juilliard School - Press - Press Release
		On Thursday, November 14 at 8 PM in Juilliard’s Paul Hall Juilliard String Quartet cellist and longtime faculty member Joel Krosnick appears in the first of two recitals with guest artist and longtime collaborator, pianist Gilbert Kalish as part of Juilliard’s Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series.
		Kalish pay homage to the memory of their good friend, composer Ralph Shapey, who died on June 13, 2002.
		The program features three works by Ralph Shapey: Sonate for Cello and Piano (1954), the "Kroslish" Sonate, which was written specifically for Mr.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/press/712current_releases_story.html (1046 words)

	Juilliard String Quartet - About JSQ - Press Releases
		Ralph Shapey's influence in American music has been felt for over half a century.
		His many honors include the first prize in the Kennedy Center Friedheim Competition, and his election both to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1989 and to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1994.
		Shapey continues to influence deeply the shape of the international musical community.
	www.juilliardstringquartet.org /about/pr_feb27_2002.html (349 words)

	CP2 114 Shapey • Reigger • Piston • Crumb • Sollberger • Berger
		The six works included herein were originally part of a collection of fourteen released in 1972 on Desto DC 6435/37.
		It is amusing that the Shapey and Riegger and the Sollberger and Berger still ended up next to each other as in the original LP set.
		Shapey has this to say about the philosophical and technical antecedents of his Evocation: "In my music, the initial space-time image generates through expansions of itself all textures and a structural totality.
	www.musicalobservations.com /recordings/cp2_114.html (1012 words)

	[Announce] Composer Ralph Shapey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce the death of composer Ralph Shapey.
		In a career which encompassed composition, conducting, and teaching, Ralph Shapey received numerous awards and commissions.
		He will always be remembered by his friends, colleagues and students as a composer with integrity who wrote music of great intensity and refused to compromise his artistic vision.
	online.colum.edu /pipermail/announce/Week-of-Mon-20020610/000828.html (202 words)

	CNM 2002-03 Concert Information, School of Music, The University of Iowa
		Ralph Shapey, dubbed a "radical traditionalist," is self described as a classicist structurally, a romantic emotionally, and a modernist harmonically.
		In addition to being a composer and teacher, Ralph Shapey was well-known as a conductor, and he founded and conducted the University of Chicago's Contemporary Chamber Players.
		In 1982 Shapey was the first composer to receive a MacArthur Prize from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
	www.uiowa.edu /~cnm/37.030406.html (1636 words)

	Amazon.ca: Works by Faye-Ellen Silverman & Ralph Shapey [Import]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It's dedicatees,cellist Joel Krosnick and pianist Gilbert Kalish have long been Shapey devotees, they both understand his music immesely,the overwhelming lyricism,the gruff,rugged power and precision necessary to impart Shapey's uncompromised sense of musical statement and severity.
		The "Second" movement is simply a masterpiece in an of itself, 13 minutes of unrestrained beauty over a frozen terrain of rolled sonorities in the piano with the cello trying to maintain a sense of lyricism spread over triple octaves.
		Shapey's best music always engages the family of strings(look for his late "Quartets"),so the cello here encompasses a wide emotive field from the rounded sonorities in the lower depths to harmonics up in the stratospheres.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000030DX (441 words)

	American composer Ralph Shapey, 1921–2002
		Ralph Shapey, an American composer who united avant-garde and romantic sensibilities, died Thursday, June 13.
		In the fall of 1964, Shapey joined the composition faculty at Chicago as a Professor of Music.
		But, Shapey had said his father “seemed to have had one inch more brains than the doctors themselves.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /020711/obit-shapey.shtml (750 words)

	WhosWho Chicago: Ralph Shapey : CenterstageChicago.com - Chicago City Life in Chicago, Illinois
		In April 1992, the Pulitzer Prize music jury unanimously chose Shapey's "Concero Fantastique," jointly commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the University of Chicago to honor their respective centennials, for the 1992 Pulitzer for music.
		In a completely unexpected move, the panel was overruled by the Pulitzer board who chose "The Face of Night" by Wayne Peterson instead.
		Shapey was the founder and director of the Contemporary Chamber Players from 1964 to his retirement in 1996.
	centerstage.net /music/whoswho/RalphShapey.html (159 words)

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