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	William Bolcom
		William Bolcom was born in Seattle, Washington in 1938.
		Bolcom's intent to break down distinctions between popular and serious music is realized in his own compositions, in which widely differing styles are often juxtaposed within the same work.
		Bolcom's ideology, rooted in the transcendentalism of Blake, inspires compositions concerned with momentous religious and philosophical themes, a concern expressed in intense, even flamboyant music of vivid illustrative power.
	www.ccm.uc.edu /musicx/Bios/bolcom.html (287 words)

	William Bolcom
		Composer and pianist, William Bolcom, born in Seattle, Washington, entered the University of Washington at age 11, where he studied piano and composition, earning A. degree there in 1958.
		Bolcom's work is well represented on recordings - as pianist, as composer, and in collaboration with his wife, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.
		To date Bolcom and Morris have recorded 20 albums together, of which After the Ball was nominated for a Grammy, as were Bolcom's Fourth Symphony (featuring Morris as soloist with Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra) and Orphee-Serenade (recorded by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Bolcom as piano soloist).
	sai-national.org /phil/composers/wbolcom.html (392 words)

	James Wierzbicki / William Bolcom
		Bolcom's gigantic ''Songs of Innocence and Experience'' is neither an opera nor an oratorio, but it is nonetheless dramatic in concept, and in its free-flowing mix of styles it is tellingly representative of what Bolcom the composer is all about.
		Bolcom's contract with the Lyric Opera would not be officially announced until 1989, a year after Bolcom won the Pulitzer Prize for his ''Twelve New Etudes'' for piano.
		Bolcom's musical contrasts are often bold, and the bleak-texted reggae segment is not his only use of irony.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /jameswierzbicki/bolcom.htm (3704 words)

	William Bolcom - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: Bolcom studied at the University of Washington, Mills College, Stanford University and with Messiaen in Paris.
		Bolcom wrote two operas, Dynamite Tonite and Greatshot, in the style of modern cabaret with topical satire.
		Bolcom has participated in the restoration of ragtime, both in his recordings of standards and his composition of original tunes.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/104/274/1/1042741.html (133 words)

	Amazon.ca: William Bolcom: The Complete Rags for Piano: Music: William Bolcom,John Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		William Bolcom is undoubtedly one of America's most important living composers and musicians.
		John Murphy, who plays all of Bolcom's piano rags on this collection, is a personal friend of the composer and presumably has his seal of approval.
		Nevertheless, the chances of anyone else recording all of Bolcom's 29 rags (including seven unpublished pieces) in the near future is remote, so this is an album fans of this composer ought to have.
	www.amazon.ca /William-Bolcom-Complete-Rags-Piano/dp/B00000IMH2 (467 words)

	Amazon.com: William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) / Slatkin, University of Michigan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bolcom's dream of setting Blake's poems to music began when he fell under their spell as a teenager; he worked on the composition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience on and off for 25 years, completing it in 1982.
		William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience date from the turbulent period in English and American history when the United States was in its infancy.
		Bolcom seems to be familiar with about every aspect of music making from every culture and has melded these variegated influences with his fine classical compositional technique into a huge work for large orchestra, solo instrumentalists, percussion, multiple choruses, and ten soloists - clearly monumental forces.
	www.amazon.com /William-Bolcom-Innocence-Experience-University/dp/B000641YZK (2600 words)

	New Music reBlog: William Bolcom, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
		William Bolcom, who knows the Songs of Innocence and of Experience very well, is certainly aware of the illustrations and mentions them in his introduction.
		Bolcom's study of the poetry led him to a range of musical setting for it.
		Bolcom's strength is probably the choral writing, as the pieces for the various choirs are all quite strong.
	netnewmusic.net /reblog/archives/2006/02/william_bolcom_1.html (1447 words)

	William Bolcom Born in Seattle May 26th
		Born in Seattle May 26th, 1930, William Bolcom entered the University of Washington at age 11 as a private student in composition with John Erall and in piano with Beth Poncy Jacobson, and took his BA there in 1958.
		Bolcom's work with American vernacular styles and in theatrical modes has been a strong impulse in his music-making both as a composer and a performer.
		William Bolcom and was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in Music for 12 New Piano Etudes.
	www.dranoff2piano.org /wbolcom.htm (509 words)

	IU Opera to present first collegiate production of Bolcom's "A View from the Bridge"
		Bolcom will be in Bloomington on Feb. 4 and 5 for the first two performances of A View from the Bridge, which will kick off the IU Opera Theater's spring season at the Musical Arts Center.
		Seattle native William Bolcom is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for music and a distinguished professor of music at the University of Michigan.
		Bolcom began the arduous task of setting Blake's popular set of poems to music in the mid-1950s as a student at the University of Washington, but then he set the project aside until he arrived at the University of Michigan to teach composition in 1973.
	newsinfo.iu.edu /news/page/normal/1776.html (1115 words)

	Mills Music Alumnus William Bolcom Receives 2006 National Medal of Arts
		Currently the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan, Bolcom is internationally known for his eclectic music that pulsates with vernacular from ragtime to reggae.
		Bolcom has received commissions from the Vienna Philharmonic (Salzburg Mozarteum), Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Domaine Musical, Saarlandischer Rundfunk, American Composers Orchestra, Saint Louis, National, Pacific, and Boston Symphonies, The MET Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Mendelssohn Quartet, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, and many others.
		Bolcom earned his BA from the University of Washington-Seattle, his MA from Mills College, and his DMA from Stanford University.
	www.mills.edu /news/2006/newsarticle11252006bolcom_award.php (534 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bolcom & Adler: Music for Piano & Flute: Music: William Bolcom,Samuel Adler,Sydney Phillip Hodkinson,David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I heard William Bolcom's Piano Concerto on the radio years ago and have thought about it ever since.
		William Bolcom plays the Piano and the Rochester Orchestra is wonderful.
		Bolcom is a master of using contrast for optimal artistic purposes.
	www.amazon.ca /Bolcom-Adler-Music-Piano-Flute/dp/B000001KE3 (358 words)

	William Bolcom and Joan Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		James Levine and the Vienna Philharmonic premiered the Fantasia Concertante for viola, cello, and orchestra in 1986 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg; the Fifth Symphony was premiered in 1990 by The Philadelphia Orchestra and Maestro Davies.
		Bolcom and Weinstein’s 1990 cabaret opera, Casino Paradise, was revived by the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia in May 2004 and was presented as part of the American Songbook Series in the Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center in February 2005.
		Bolcom has taught composition at the University of Michigan since 1973; he has been a full professor since 1983 and was Chairman of the Composition Department from 1998 to 2003.
	www.bolcomandmorris.com /bolcom.html (1676 words)

	usOperaweb - William Bolcom Interview Spring 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bolcom has demonstrated strength-to-strength achievement in a plethora of musical genres, and has provided incidental music for a number of stage plays as well as the orchestral scores for the films Hester Street and Illuminata.
		Bolcom's operatic output has included three commissions from the Lyric Opera of Chicago; McTeague, A View From The Bridge, and A Wedding, a comedy based on Robert Altman's film, which will premiere in Chicago under Altman's direction on December 11, 2004.
		Bolcom, in examining the listings of your compositions, one is quite taken away with how eclectic your career has been.
	www.usoperaweb.com /2004/autumn/bolcom.htm (4292 words)

	usOperaweb - William Bolcom Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		William Bolcom and librettist Arnold Weinstein discuss A View from the Bridge with Arthur Miller in Weinstein's apartment at Chelsea Hotel in New York (1999).
		Showing exceptional musical promise from a young age, William Bolcom entered the University of Washington at age of eleven and studied composition with John Verrall and piano with Berthe Poncy Jacobson.
		Bolcom's interest in developing a uniquely American opera form helped in the choice of Miller's play as well.
	www.usoperaweb.com /2002/december/bolcom.htm (1081 words)

	William Bolcom - 2
		Bolcom performed his Fourth Violin Sonata and Graceful Ghost Rag with Malcolm Lowe, concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, on July 19, 2002, at Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.
		Bolcom's opera, A View from the Bridge (with libretto by Arthur Miller and Arnold Weinstein, based on Miller's play of the same name), will be performed seven times at The Metropolitan Opera / New York in December 2002.
		Bolcom's Ragomania will be performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Lorin Maazel in early January 2003.
	www.sai-national.org /phil/composers/wbolcom2.html (730 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Bolcom (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		William Bolcom, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		William Bolcom (William Elden Bolcom), 1938–;, American composer, b.
		Bolcom was involved in the 1960s revival of ragtime and has given many piano recitals of American popular songs, often accompanying his wife, the mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BolcomWlm.html (290 words)

	William Bolcom sets to music Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
		I reviewed the standard CD version of this song cycle in December of last year and though I didn’t mention it in the review I was thinking surely this huge undertaking was recorded multichannel at the same time and perhaps we’ll eventually hear a hi-res version of it.
		The different unexpected sounds in Bolcom’s wildly eclectic score are enhanced due to their spatial qualities.
		Bolcom determined at age 17 that he would set all of the poems to music eventually, and he did.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=170 (804 words)

	IHAS: Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A composer of songs, operas, and instrumental works, a pianist of distinction who frequently accompanies his wife mezzo-soprano Joan Morris in recital, an artist who has worked in a variety of idioms from classical to cabaret, Bolcom is a fresh voice on the American music scene.
		This latter interest culminated in 1984 with Bolcom's powerful cycle, SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE, in which he set forty-six Blake poems for solo voice and piano, orchestra and chorus.
		Demonstrating a flair for the dramatic, a fondness for experimentation and combination of pre-existing styles with his own dissonant textures and jaunty vernacular idiom, Bolcom's catalogue encompasses the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1988 TWELVE ETUDES FOR PIANO, VIOLIN, CLARINET, FLUTE, AND PIANO, ten string quartets, and five piano concerti.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/composer/bolcom.html (162 words)

	William Bolcom News
		News about William Bolcom continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Gann's classes he] played several examples of "postmodern" pieces that combined classical and symphonic idioms with jazz or rock or country and western, starting with William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and...
		William Bolcom and Joan Morris will come to the Gilmore riding the crest of a huge accomplishment.
	www.topix.net /who/william-bolcom (538 words)

	Item #1706679FK - William Bolcom - Nine New Bagatelles - Piano Solo
		This enchanting piece by William Bolcom is a wonderful piano solo and will bring you hours of enjoyment.
		Composer(s): "William Bolcom - Nine New Bagatelles" was composed by William Bolcom.
		Publisher: "William Bolcom - Nine New Bagatelles" was published by Edward B. Marks Music Company.
	www.superdupermusic.com /piano/1706679.html (307 words)

	Amazon.com: William Bolcom: Songs: Music: Carole Farley,William Bolcom,Farley,Bolcom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) / Slatkin, University of Michigan School of Music ~ William Bolcom
		Bolcom is one of this country's most versatile and brilliant composers, and those qualities are demonstrated to great effect in the songs on this album.
		Bolcom also has done so in his piano music, much of which is heavily influenced by ragtime.
	www.amazon.com /William-Bolcom-Songs-Carole-Farley/dp/B0009F4UBQ (1320 words)

	William Bolcom - famous William Bolcom Classics hit collection and William Bolcom Music Reviews. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The composer/pianist William Bolcom was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1938.
		He began private composition studies at age 11 with John Verrall and piano lessons with Berthe Poncy Jacobson at the University of Washington.
		His work is summarised in his monumental setting of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, written between 1956 and 1981.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/6583.htm (231 words)

	Interview with William Bolcom
		Genre-hopper extraordinaire William Bolcom first became famous as a leader of the ragtime revival of the 1970s.
		Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, his setting of 46 William Blake poems, was 25 years in the making.
		The Boston Globe called the two and a half hour work for nearly 500 performers (chorus, symphony, ensembles, and vocalists) "the greatest achievement of synthesis in American music since Porgy and Bess." These deceptively simple mystical poems in the style of children's verse comment on the passage from childhood to adulthood.
	www.adventuresinmusic.biz /Archives/Interviews/bolcom.htm (2788 words)

	NPR : The Ragtime Music of William Bolcom
		Hear William Bolcom's 'Graceful Ghost' and the 'Incinerator Rag'
		Performance Today, January 19, 2006 · American composer William Bolcom has made some 30 CDs of popular American music and more than 100 CDs with his other music on them.
		The Lark Quartet played Bolcom's arrangements of two of his own rags, when they performed at Washington D.C.'s National Academy of Sciences recently.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5162536 (168 words)

	William Bolcom - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jury chairman William Bolcom, also a well-known composer, said, "There are a slew of awards for young composers.
		Michigan composer William Bolcom has won the highest honor for artistic excellence in the USA.
		The medals for Bolcom and Interlochen president Jeffrey Kimpton will be awarded by President George W. Bush in the Oval Office in Washington.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/bolcom (1267 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Martha Argerich, William Bolcom Lead Classical Grammy Nominations
		Pianist Martha Argerich, the Emerson String Quartet, conductor Mariss Jansons, and composer William Bolcom are among the most-cited classical nominees for the 48th Grammy Awards, announced this morning in New York.
		Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, a choral setting of Blake's poems, was nominated for best classical album, best choral performance, and best contemporary composition.
		A collection of Bolcom's songs recorded by soprano Carole Farley was also nominated in the vocal category and the best-engineered classical album category.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/3445.html (585 words)

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