To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Mona Lyn Reese

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mona Lyn Reese
Composer Mona Lyn Reese
Composer Mona Lyn Reese
BornAugust 24, 1951
Morris, Minnesota
OccupationComposer
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Website
www.monareese.com
Mona Lyn Reese at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California.

Mona Lyn Reese (born August 24, 1951) is an American composer, best known for her operas and choral music.[1] Her work is melodic and accessible with an emphasis on driving or complex rhythms, movement, and contrasting textures.[2] Her music communicates and expresses emotions traditionally or experimentally without allowing a prevailing fashion to dictate style, form, or harmony.[2]

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/1
    Views:
    1 511
  • The Three Fat Women of Antibes (Opera Highlights)

Transcription

Biography

Reese was born in Morris, Minnesota, and began piano lessons at age six, flute lessons at age eight, and taught herself guitar at age 13.[1] She attended the University of Minnesota, Morris, (BA), where she also studied flute performance, composition and French.[1] She continued at the University of Kansas (MM Composition), writing Love Songs to the Moon and Piano Moods.[1] She began composing professionally in 1975, with music for woodwind quintet and percussion to a documentary film on Kansas.[1] Reese was Composer in residence at the Minnesota Opera from 1991 to 1999, where she arranged works for the Minnesota Opera touring company and conducted educational residencies to help students write and produce original operas.[1]

In 1993, Reese was awarded a Faith Partners Residency sponsored by the American Composers Forum and the Otto Bremer Foundation. During this residency, she collaborated with librettist Delores Dufner OSB, on the dramatic oratorio Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim which premiered at the Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis (Teri Larson, Music Director) in 1994. The following year, the Otto Bremer Foundation gave Reese an additional grant to write a symphonic version which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1995.[1] The symphonic version was performed by the Billings Symphony Orchestra & Chorale (Uri Barnea, Music Director) in 1996, and was also performed by the Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis (Teri Larson, Music Director), as part of the “Basilica 2000” series. In 2011, the San José Chamber Orchestra and Chorus released Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim (album), recorded at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California.[3] In 2014, the San José Chamber Orchestra and Chorus performed a suite from Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim in the San José City Hall Rotunda.

Reese received a Continental Harmony commission in 2000, created by the American Composers Forum and the National Endowment for the Arts to enable small to mid-size communities in each state to commission new pieces for the millennium.[1] Continental Harmony was an official partner of the White House Millennium Council. Reese composed Suite Carroll County for the Carroll County Orchestra and Chorale in Carrollton, Ohio.[4]

Reese's opera The Three Fat Women of Antibes received its premier performance with orchestra in May 2009 by the San José State University Opera Workshop (Michel Singher, Music Director, Daniel Helfgot, Director).[5][6] The opera, written with her husband and librettist Thomas Hassing, is a humorous chamber opera for four singers based on the W. Somerset Maugham short story of the same name. The opera premiered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1998. Other performances include the University of Kansas Opera Studio (2002), Goat Hall Productions (San Francisco, California, 2003, selections), and Gregory Weist (Munich, Germany, 2005, selections).[5]

In 2003, Reese was selected as a Studium Scholar-in-Residence at Saint Benedict's Monastery (St. Joseph, MN). During her time there, Reese planned the chamber orchestra composition Little Pieces from My Heart, commissioned by the San José Chamber Orchestra.[1]

Reese’s orchestral works have been performed by orchestras throughout the United States including the Minnesota Orchestra, the Livingston Symphony Orchestra (Livingston, New Jersey), the Atlanta Symphony, the Minnesota Sinfonia, and the San José Chamber Orchestra. She had her first European performance with the Czech Radio Symphony in 1997.[1]

Selected works

  • Stevens County Fair for symphony orchestra (1983)
  • The Mitten for orchestra ensemble and narrator (1986)
  • Tombeau for Michael Collins for harpsichord (1987)
    Tombeau for Michael Collins by Mona Lyn Reese, performed by Barbara Day Turner.
  • Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim dramatic oratorio (1994)
  • From My Heart Springs A Song for SSA choir (1994)
  • Prince for symphony orchestra (1994)
  • Suite Carrol County for SATB choir and chamber orchestra (2000)
  • Winter Melodies for string orchestra (2001)
  • Little Pieces From My Heart for string orchestra, flute, piano and percussion (2004)
  • Arise and Shine for SATB choir, organ and brass ensemble (2005)
  • Toboggan for SATB choir and flute (2005)
  • Land of Rest arranged for SSAA choir (2013)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j [1] Alburger, Mark, "Mona Lyn Reese", Grove Music Online, ed. D. Root. (Accessed September 19, 2011)
  2. ^ a b [2] Alburger, Mark, "Positively Mona Lyn Reese." 21st-Century Music, March 2011.
  3. ^ [3] San José Chamber Orchestra
  4. ^ [4] Continental Harmony, Celebrating Communities Through Music
  5. ^ a b [5] The Three Fat Women of Antibes opera
  6. ^ The Three Fat Women of Antibes opera on YouTube

External links

This page was last edited on 17 March 2024, at 06:39
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.