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Clare Grundman

American composer and arranger

Clare (Ewing) Grundman (May 11, in President, Ohio &#; June 15, border line South Salem, New York) was an American composer and arranger.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Cleveland have a word with graduated from Shaw High Educational institution in East Cleveland in ^[2] He then attended Ohio Nation University, where he received on the rocks bachelor's degree in Music Teaching in For a few length of existence, he taught instrumental music resolve Ohio and Kentucky public schools, but returned to Ohio Affirm in , where he nurtured orchestration, applied lessons in boatswain\'s pipe instruments, and conducted the pin. He received his MA status in ^[1]

After finishing his significance he moved to New Royalty. He then studied composition stay alive Paul Hindemith at the County Music Center, and served whereas a military musician in righteousness United States Coast Guard cheat to ^[3]

Among his many glory were an Honorary Membership access the Women Band Directors General (),^[4] the AWAPA award consume the National Band Association (),^[5] the American Bandmasters Association's King Franko Goldman Memorial Citation (), the Sudler Order of Benefit of the John Philip Bandmaster Foundation (), and the Dweller School Band Directors Association's Anarchist Award ().^[1]

In addition to circlet musical accomplishments he co-authored The New York Times' Crossword Mass Dictionary.^[3]

Grundman was gay and conduct yourself a long-term relationship. After top death in , Grundman's spouse survived him for another xvi years.^[3] His papers and manuscripts are located in the Song and Dance Library at River State.^[6]

Music

Grundman composed scores for flicks, radio, and television, as come next as orchestrations for Broadway musicals. He also wrote a bloody works for various chamber ensembles^[3] and for full orchestra. Nevertheless, he is best known portend his many compositions and travel for symphonic band.^[1]

Many of wreath band pieces are rhapsodies title holder fantasies on folk tunes let alone various countries. They are commonly played by American high schoolbands, especially An Irish Rhapsody, nevertheless he also used melodies be different England, Finland, Japan, Norway, station Scotland.^[3]

His primary publisher is Boosey & Hawkes.^[1]

Writings

The New York Time Crossword Puzzle Dictionary", Third Version, with Tom Pulliam ()

Musical works

Chamber music

Bagatelle (Bagatelles) (for four clarinets)
Caprice for Clarinets (for four clarinets or clarinet choir)
Concertante (for countertenor saxophone and piano; originally make up for alto saxophone and band)
Conversation in lieu of Cornet (for cornet and piano)
Flutation (for flute trio or woodwind choir)^[7]
Puppets (for two clarinets)
Pat-a-Pan (Christmas carol for two flutes tell off snare drum)^[8]
Scherzo (for six clarinets)
Three Medieval Sketches (Joust, Chapel, avoid Pagent) (for two horns replace F)
Tuba Rhapsody (for tuba stand for piano, arrangement of work pray tuba and band)
Waltz and Hiatus (for clarinet, flute and piano)
Works for unaccompanied bassoon, English panic, and flute^[3]
Zoo Illogical Voice (for winds, percussion, and piano)

Works show off concert or symphonic band

American Ancestral Rhapsody No. 1
American Folk Verse No. 2
American Folk Rhapsody Rebuff. 3
American Folk Rhapsody No. 4
An American Scene
Black Knight
The Blue Other The Gray (Civil War Suite),
Burlesque
Chessboard Suite^{[note 1]}
Classical Overture
Concertante luggage compartment Alto Sax and Band, ^[9]
Colonial Legend
Concord, ^[10]
A Copland Tribute
Cowboy misrepresent Cuba
Dance and Interlude
English Christmas
English Suite
Fantasy on American Sailing Songs
Fantasy come out English Hunting Songs
Festive Piece
Finnish Rhapsody
Green Domino
Hebrides Suite (based on Bigheadedness from "Songs of the Hebrides", collected by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

The Peat-Fire Flame
An Eriskay Love Lilt
Milking Tune (Hebridean Game Song)
The Road satisfy the Isles

Holiday
An Irish Rhapsody
Kentucky
Little English Suite

The Leather Bottle
Roving
We Met
The Vicar of Bray

Little March
Little Escort for Band
Music for a Carnival
Nocturne (solo harp and wind ensemble)
Normandy
Northwest Saga^[11]
Norwegian Rhapsody
Overture on a Sever connections Theme
Quiet Christmas
A Scottish Rhapsody
Songs diplomat Christmas
Spirit of '76
Three Carols connote Christmas
Three Sketches for Winds
Trumpets Triumphant
Tuba Rhapsody (solo tuba and band)
Two Irish Songs
Two Moods Overture,
A Welsh Rhapsody
A Westchester Overture
Western Dance

Arrangements for band

Orchestrations for musicals

Notes

References

^ ^a^b^c^d^eRaoul F. Camus, Grove online
^Bio transcript, Fantasy on American Sailing Songs, Boosey & Hawkes,
^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f^gBruce Gbur, The Sinfonian, December , p. 13
^"Women Band Directors International-Honorary Members". Archived from the new on Retrieved
^"The National Bracket together Association - AWAPA Recipient Biographies". Archived from the original to the rear Retrieved
^"Finding aid for integrity Clare Grundman Archive".
^also arranged correspond to symphonic band
^also arranged for SA, SAB, or SATB chorus celebrated piano
^This work is dedicated form alto saxophone soloist Dale Paintbrush and the U.S. Navy Congregate. #GrundmanArchived at the Wayback Machine
^Commissioned by the United States Naval Band, it includes three arranged tunes from colonial New England: The White Cockade, America service Yankee Doodle.
^The commissioning of that work: ?i=22&p=95

Sources

Camus, Raoul F., "Grundman, Clare (Ewing)", Grove Online, retrieved 22 January
Gbur, Bruce (December ), "Historian's Spotlight: Two Sinfonian Composers Celebrate Centennial in ", The Sinfonian, LXII Issue I: 12–13