Joel spiegelman
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Joel Spiegelman is an American composer, conductor, concert pianist, harpsichordist, recording artist, arranger, author and teacher.
As a composer, Spiegelman has been widely known as a creative innovator for his blending of techniques from traditional classical music, dodecaphonic music, aleatoric music
, gospel, Russian folk, and electronic idioms of musical expression. He has written original music for string quartet, piano trio, piano quintet, chamber music with percussion, solo instruments, wind ensembles, symphony orchestra, ballet, film, choral and vocal music.
Bakers Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Nicholas Slonimsky
Groves Dictionary of Music
Harvard Short Dictionary of Music
The 18th Century in Russia, Ed. by John Garrard, Oxford University Press, wrote article on 18th century Russian keyboard music
As a composer, Spiegelman has been widely known as a creative innovator for his blending of techniques from traditional classical music, dodecaphonic music, aleatoric music
Aleatoric music
Aleatoric music is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer...
, gospel, Russian folk, and electronic idioms of musical expression. He has written original music for string quartet, piano trio, piano quintet, chamber music with percussion, solo instruments, wind ensembles, symphony orchestra, ballet, film, choral and vocal music.
Incidental music
- Fables for Our Time by James Thurber. Composed the music for the theatrical event presented at the Brandeis University Theater first performed there in 1956
- Medea - composed an electronic score for the Robinson Jeffers play based on Sophocles' Medea performed in 1964 at the Brandeis University's Spingold Theatre*
- They - composed the first electronic music score written for a film based on a novel by Marya Mannes. Produced by NET New York, 1969.
- The Possessed - composed music for a ballet by Pear Land based on the play The Dybbuk. First performed in 1974 at the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City.
Orchestral works
My New York for full symphony orchestra, Paris, 1958, World premier Moscow, 1994 by Moscow Radio SymphonyExternal links
- Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra Joel Spiegelman, Conductor
- Recital: Joel Spiegelman in Retrospect
- Joel Spiegelman interviewed on the Joe Franklin Show, August 1988
- HARPSICHORD GETS ELECTRONIC VOICE; Stanley Lock and Joel Spiegelman Perform
- und Dirigent Joel Spiegelman mit Wohnsitzen in New York und Paris -->
Bakers Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Nicholas Slonimsky
Groves Dictionary of Music
Harvard Short Dictionary of Music
The 18th Century in Russia, Ed. by John Garrard, Oxford University Press, wrote article on 18th century Russian keyboard music