T.J. Anderson is one of the leading composers of his generation. He was born August 17, 1928 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania and received degrees from West Virginia State College, Penn State University, and a Ph.D. in degrees. After serving as Chairman of the Department of Music at Tufts University for eight years, Thomas Jefferson Anderson became Austin Fletcher Professor of Music and in 1990 became Austin Fletcher Professor of Music Emeritus. He studied composition with George Ceiga, Philip Bezanson, Richard Hervig, and Darius Milhaud. Anderson is well known for his orchestration of Scott Joplin's opera, Treemonisha which premiered in Atlanta in 1972. His opera, Soldier Boy, Soldier, was commissioned by Indiana University and is based on a libretto by Leon Forrest. His chamber opera, Walker, was commissioned by the Boston Athenaeum with a libretto by Derek Walcott <more…> (back to top) (to About Slavery Documents) |
The Korean-American, Boston-based composer Donald Sur, who died in May 1999, wrote the original Slavery Documents exclusively at artist colonies throughout the United States, including the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Cummington Community for the Arts (MA), Ragdale Foundation (IL), and MacDowell Foundation (NH). Prior to his fellowships at these colonies he served on the faculties of Longy School of Music, MIT, SUNY/Purchase, Tufts, and Harvard. In addition, he lectured at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and Queens University, Ontario. Mr. Sur received his master's degree from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His works have been performed throughout the United States as well as in the Netherlands, West Germany, England, and Korea. <more...> (back to top) (to About Slavery Documents) |
David Hoose has been Music Director of the Cantata Singers & Ensemble since 1982. He is also Music Director of Collage New Music and the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and is Director of Orchestral Activities and Chairman of the Conducting Department at the Boston University School for the Arts. David Hoose received his Bachelor of Music degree in composition and theory at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and continued with graduate study at Brandeis University. In 1980 he received the Dmitri Mitropoulos Award as a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he studied with Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa, and Leonard Bernstein. He has recorded for Nonesuch, Koch, CRI, Delos and New World Records. As a horn player Mr. Hoose was a founding member of the Emmanuel Wind Quintet, which won the 1981 Walter W. Naumburg Award for Chamber Music. <more...> (back to top) (to About Slavery Documents) |
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Slavery Documents:
Karyl Ryczek, Cynthia Clarey, Rockland Osgood, David Arnold, David Howse
Classroom Cantatas:
Daryl Yoder, Suzanne MacAllister, Genithia Lilia Hogges
Soprano Karyl Ryczek has performed widely throughout the northeast corridor on the opera, oratorio and concert stage. Ms. Ryczek’s singing has been described as informed, involved and dramatically expressive. A frequent soloist with The Cantata Singers, Ms. Ryczek has also appeared with Boston Baroque, the Monadnock Music Festival and the Boston Academy of Music. Ms. Ryczek made her Boston operatic debut with Collage New Music in the premier performance of Charles Fussell’s opera, The Astronaut’s Tale. Ms. Ryczek holds faculty positions at the Longy School of Music and at Bridgewater State College. <more…> (back to top) (to About Slavery Documents) |
Mezzo-soprano Cynthia Clarey is an international artist with a wide range of concert and operatic versatility. In Europe she has appeared with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Paris’s Opéra Comique and Théâtre de Chatelet , Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Festival , the Wexford Festival and Barcelona’s Teatre del Liceu. She has also performed with major European orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony, BBC Symphony, and Hallé Orchestra. In the United States, she has performed with the opera companies of Chicago, Dallas, New York, Seattle, Santa Fe, Saint Louis, Grand Rapids, Omaha, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, Utah, Tulsa, Long Beach and Binghamton’s Tri-Cities Opera. Her orchestra appearances include the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and the orchestras of Saint Louis, Baltimore, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Houston, Minnesota. She is closely associated with conductor Sir Simon Rattle as well as Bernard Haitink, Andrew Litton, Raymond Leppard, Andrew Davis, and Leonard Slatkin. <more…> (back to top) (to About Slavery Documents) |
Tenor Rockland Osgood has distinguished himself in a wide variety of musical idioms from the baroque to the latest in contemporary compositions. He is frequently praised for his exemplary musicianship, eloquence of expression and immaculate diction. Highlights of his present season include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Te Deum of Berlioz, Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Messiah at Lincoln Center, and Donald Sur’s Slavery Documents in Boston’s Symphony Hall. He will also be featured with the Hartford Symphony in Messiah. Mr. Osgood has performed on several occasions with the Cantata Singers including in the World Premier of Donald Sur’s Slavery Documents in 1990. Mr. Osgood holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Huntingdon College and a Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. He currently teaches voice at Tufts University. <more...> (back to top) (to About Slavery Documents) |
Baritone David Arnold, is one of the superb examples of a great American tradition which has produced an impressive proportion of the world’s great baritone singers of the likes of Lawrence Tibbett, Robert Merrill, George London and Sherrill Milnes. Mr. Arnold made his debut in 1983 with the Metropolitan Opera as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, and has scored successes in symphonic music performing the Bach Passions with Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, Richard Westenburg, Harold Rosenbaum, Blanche Moyse, Sergio Comissiona, and Norman Scribner. And for six seasons Seiji Ozawa has chosen him as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; this has included four seasons of the BSO’s New York concerts at Carnegie Hall. He recorded Gurrelieder with Ozawa and the BSO on the Philips label. Mr. Arnold has won the New York City Opera Gold debut award, a Sullivan Foundation Award, and a Shoshana Foundation award and he was presented a Career Grant by Kurt Herbert Adler on behalf of the National Opera Institute, a grant which included a monetary award as well as a concert hosted by Beverly Sills at the Kennedy Center. He made a guest appearance at the White House on the occasion of a State Dinner honoring Prime Minister Thatcher. In 1996, Coretta Scott King invited him to sing at the annual commemorative service in Atlanta honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth; the principal speaker at this event was President Clinton. <more...> (back to top) (to About Slavery Documents) |
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