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  William Bergsma: UW Composer of International Renown
"Bergsma is fondly remembered by his colleagues at the UW for his tremendous drive and leadership.
The late William Bergsma, director of the UW School of Music from 1963 to 1971, was a composer of international acclaim.
Bergsma was the recipient of many distinguished honors during his career.
www.washington.edu /research/showcase/1963a.html   (369 words)

  
 William BERGSMA - The Complete Piano Music [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- Feb 2003 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bergsma studied with Howard Hanson and with Bernard Rogers (whose own music really should be recorded).
Kurt Stone has described Bergsma's music as "resourceful and imaginative, essentially tonal, texturally conventional and predominantly lyrical." I would not dissent from that judgement.
Bergsma is mildly dissonant in the 30 minute Tangents which careers from a toughened neo-Bachian Finzian spiciness to a jerky upheaval of kinetic force redolent of late Copland.
www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2003/Feb03/bergsma.htm   (325 words)

  
 William Bergsma - Biography
William Bergsma was a major contributor to the American music scene during his lifetime.
Bergsma composed works for symphony orchestra, opera, chamber ensembles, solo instruments and choral groups, most of which has been recorded and continues to be available.
Bergsma's music is primarily linear; he is both a lyricist and a contrapuntist.
www.terrywinterowens.com /williambergsma/bio.html   (542 words)

  
 William Bergsma
In 1966 Bergsma founded the Contemporary Group at the University of Washington, which is an organization of Composers and Musicians who Stage performances of new Musical works and educate students and the public about contemporary music; the group remains active to this day.
Bergsma died in Seattle of a Heart attack, at the age of 72.
William Laurence Bergsma April 1 1921 March 18 1994 was an American composer After studying piano with his mother a former opera singer and then the viola...
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 Vietnam Bibliography, Mobile Riverine Force, Vietnam Books, Vietnam Periodicals, Brown Water Navy, Military Assistance ...
Cowan, William V. "Killer Forrest." [Marine Corps Gazette] 54 (August 1970): 31ff.
Dutcher, William E. "Naval and Maritime Events, January 1970- June 1971." U.S. Naval Institute [Proceedings] (Naval Review Issue) 97 (May 1971): 55ff.
Fulton, William B. "Mobile Riverine Forces in Combat." [Field Artilleryman] (April 1969): 15ff.
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 CD Baby: WILLIAM O. SMITH: Solo Music
Born in Sacramento, California, in 1926, William O. Smith began playing the clarinet at the age of ten.
In his teens, he initiated the dual life that he has followed ever since: leading a jazz orchestra while also performing with the Oakland Symphony: after high school and a year "on the road" traveling with various bands, he attended Julliard during the day while playing jazz clubs at night.
The virtuoso performers on SOLO MUSIC are clarinetist William O. Smith, flutist Jeffrey Cohan and trombonists Stuart Dempster and Chad Kirby.
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 William BERGSMA - The Complete Piano Music [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- Feb 2003 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bergsma studied with Howard Hanson and with Bernard Rogers (whose own music really should be recorded).
Kurt Stone has described Bergsma's music as "resourceful and imaginative, essentially tonal, texturally conventional and predominantly lyrical." I would not dissent from that judgement.
Bergsma is mildly dissonant in the 30 minute Tangents which careers from a toughened neo-Bachian Finzian spiciness to a jerky upheaval of kinetic force redolent of late Copland.
www.theclassicalsite.com /classrev/2003/Feb03/bergsma.htm   (321 words)

  
 Enlaces : Arts : Music : Composition : Composers : B : Bergsma,_William_Laurence :: 100cia.com
Bergsma, William - (1921-1994) University of Washington composer of international renown.
Bergsma, William Laurence - Biography noting influences and education, teaching position, and major works and genres from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio..
William Bergsma - (1921-1994) Picture, biography, works list, and recordings..
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WILLIAM O. - Philip Rehfeldt, New Directions for Clarinet, Revised Edition (1994)
In his teens, he initiated the dual life that he has followed ever since: leading a jazz orchestra while also performing with the Oakland Symphony: after high school and a year "on the road" traveling with various bands, he attended Juilliard during the day while playing jazz clubs at night.
His DUO FOR FLUTE AND CLARINET (1961) used these techniques, the multiple sonorities very likely being the first of their type to be precisely notated.
faculty.washington.edu /bills/bio1.html   (338 words)

  
 William Bergsma - American composer honored with a web site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bergsma's opera The Wife Martin Guerre has been hailed as one of the masterpieces of the twentieth century.
As Chair of the Juilliard Composition Department and later at the University of Washington, he influenced an entire generation of composers including Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
Bergsma's web site was designed by composer Terry Winter Owens and is hosted by worldlinkpages.com
www.mvdaily.com /news/item.cgi?id=300132   (143 words)

  
 Whitney Museum
For the next two years, he studied composition with Hall Overton, and from 1958 to 1961 he studied at the Juilliard School of Music with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti.
Prism’s creative work has been supported by the nation’s leading cultural philanthropies, including the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Presser Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fun, the Philadelphia Music Project (The Pew Charitable Trusts), and state arts councils in Pennsylvania, New York, and Michigan.
Champions of new music, Prism has premiered over 100 works, many by internationally celebrated American composers, including William Bolcom, Steven Mackey, William Albright, Chen Yi, Lee Hyla, Libby Larson, Greg Osby, and Jennifer Higdon.
www.whitney.org /www/exhibition/stevereich.jsp   (2287 words)

  
 William McCauley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Howard Hanson Conducts Barber, Piston, Griffes, McCauley, Kennan, Bergsma
by: Samuel Barber, William Bergsma, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Kent Kennan, William McCauley, Walter Piston, Harold Lawrence, Howard Hanson, Joseph Mariano, Robert Sprenkle
by: Cecile Chaminade, Jean Coulthard, Gabriel Faure, William McCauley, Joaquin Rodrigo, Camille Saint-Saens, Mario Bernardi, Timothy Hutchins, CBC Vancouver Orchestra
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 PROLADES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1974), which was the published version of his M.A. thesis (550 pages) at Fuller.
In 1985, Dr. Paul Bergsma joined IMDELA as Director of the School of World Mission, on loan from the Christian Reformed Church.
and was replaced by Dr. Paul Bergsma; he also resigned from the Latin America Mission and became a full-time staff member of IDEA Ministries, with headquarters in Orange, California.
www.prolades.com /index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=2   (2114 words)

  
 William B Gudykunst THEORIZING ABOUT COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE
William B Breuer - Daring Missions of World War II
William B Werther Jr Third Sector Management: the Art of Managing Nonprofit Organizations
William B Werther Jr This Is About Vision Interviews With
www.contemporaryliterature.com /242978_william-baird.html   (224 words)

  
 CHARBO'S ANTIQUARIAAT
The life and letters of Henry William Paget, First Marquess of Anglesey K.G. (3rd impr.).
BERGSMA, W., Aggaeus van Albada (c.1525-1587), schwenckfeldiaan, staatsman en strijder voor verdraagzaamheid.
BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, DUKE OF, Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV and Victoria.
www.charbo.nl /cha_biography.htm   (2156 words)

  
 MBR: Children's Bookwatch, April 2003
Extravagantly beautiful full-color art by author/illustrator Jody Bergsma hallmarks this captivating and enthusiastically recommended fairytale fable for all ages.
Beverly Cleary's Henry And Beezus (0807210269, $18.00) also appears unabridged, with William Roberts providing the fun rendition of this story of a boy who longs for a classy bicycle.
Two beautiful 'Nature Unfolds' titles may not be entirely appropriate choices for the rigors of library lending, but promise a world of attraction and will prove suitable for at-home learning, at the least.
www.midwestbookreview.com /cbw/apr_03.htm   (6205 words)

  
 Classical Music : William Bergsma - Shop for Outdoor Gear, Outdoor Clothing, and Footwear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
by: John Russo, William Bergsma, Emma Lou Diemer, Ernesto Pellegrini, Max Reger, Norma Wendelburg, Michael Phillip Zak, Marilyn Costello, Lydia Walton Ignacio, Reiko Uchida
by: William Bergsma, John Biggs, Elliott Carter, Anthony Plog, George Rochberg, Gunther Schuller, William Schuman
by: William Sharp, Samuel Barber, William Bergsma, Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Pierre Max Dubois, Gabriel Faure, George Gershwin, Mikhail Glinka, Morton Gould
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 World Famous Comics: William Bergsma Love's Secret and Other Songs by American Composers
William Bergsma Love's Secret and Other Songs by American Composers
They range from the demanding complexity of Barber's "Nuvoletta" and Ives's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" to the lyricism of the Ernst Bacon songs to texts by Emily Dickinson.
The final song on the CD, John McCollum's performance of Henry Cowell's "The Donkey", is especially memorable; I recommend this version over the one on the Albany label's "Songs of Henry Cowell" CD (which I bought because my interest in Cowell's songs was raised by hearing "The Donkey").
www.worldfamouscomics.com /shopping/music-performed-by-William+Bergsma.shtml   (514 words)

  
 Bergsma, William Laurence: Quest For Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 Whew Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: B: Bergsma, William Laurence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
» Bergsma, William - (1921-1994) University of Washington composer of international renown.
» Bergsma, William Laurence - Biography noting influences and education, teaching position, and major works and genres from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
» William Bergsma - (1921-1994) Picture, biography, works list, and recordings.
www.whew.co.uk /directory/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/B/Bergsma,_William_Laurence   (132 words)

  
 USC Law Faculty Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
“Ethical Aspects of Major Increases in Life Span and Life Expectancy.” In Coping with Methuselah: The Impact of Molecular Biology on Medicine and Society (Henry J. Aaron and William B. Schwartz, eds.) (Brookings Institution Press, 2004).
In Ethical, Social and Legal Dimensions of Screening for Human Genetic Disease (D. Bergsma, ed.) (The National Foundation, 1974).
"In Praise of William May's 'Attitudes'" (How the Report Made a Difference).
lawweb.usc.edu /faculty/acapron.htm   (5920 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Music: Howard Hanson Conducts Barber, Piston, Griffes, McCauley, Kennan, Bergsma [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Samuel Barber (Composer), Walter Piston (Composer), Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Composer), Kent Wheeler Kennan (Composer), William McCauley (Composer), William Bergsma (Composer), Howard Hanson (Conductor), Harold Lawrence (Conductor), Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra (Orchestra), Joseph Mariano (Performer), James Austin (Performer), Francis Tursi (Performer)
While Dorati, and to a lesser extent Paray, recorded these lesser known works, Howard Hanson was their champion.
So collectors, and even those who aspire to be, should pick up as many Mercury Living Presence discs as possible now, before they all die.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000057LI/ref   (1110 words)

  
 Genetic Books
Students learning genetics and biotechnology through forensic cases-to-solve, cases related to genetic diseases, cases related to agriculture, hands-on activities, extraction of DNA from a vegetable or fruit, or making a DNA model
Bergsma, Daniel, Birth Defects Compendium, Alan Liss, Inc., 1979
Shows how our eyes, teeth, hands, feet, brain, bones, and skin have changed over the last five million years.
www.kumc.edu /gec/allbooks.html   (7995 words)

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