Wayne B. Barlow was an American composer of contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music

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. He was also a professor of music, organist, and choir director.

To be distinguished Wayne Barlowe

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Barlow received bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music

Eastman School of Music

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, majoring in composition and theory and becoming in 1937 the first American to receive a doctorate in music composition. He also studied with Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

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 in California

California

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, as well as with Myron Schaeffer, the director of the Electronic Music Laboratory at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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. He served as a professor at the Eastman School of Music from 1937 to 1978, where he directed the Electronic Music Studio from 1968 to 1978, and also served as Dean of Graduate Studies from 1973 to 1978. From 1978 to 1996 he held the position of Emeritus Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music. His notable students include James Cohn

James Cohn

James Cohn is an American composer born in 1928 in Newark, New Jersey. After taking violin and piano lessons in his native town, he studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, and majored in Composition at Juilliard, graduating in 1950.He has written solo, chamber,...

, Lucrecia Kasilag

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, Samuel Jones

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, Robert Jordahl, Norma Wendelburg, Martin Mailman

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, Charles Carter

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, Warner Hutchison, Raymond Helble, Don Freund

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, Robert Mols, Michael Miller

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, Edwin Childs, Richard Lane, and Thom Ritter George.

Among his best-known compositions is The Winter's Passed, for oboe

Oboe

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 and string orchestra.

He died at the age of 84.

Selected works

Stage

• False faces, Choral Ballet in a prologue and 2 scenes (1935); libretto by Leone Coffer
• Three Moods for Dancing, Ballet (1940)

Orchestral

• Nocturne for small orchestra (1946)
• Rondo-Overture (1947)
• Sinfonia da camera (1960)
• Vistas (1963)
• Rota for chamber orchestra (1959)
• Hampton Beach, Overture (1971)
• Soundscapes for orchestra and tape (1972)
• Night Song (1977)
• De Profundis, Symphonic Poem

Concertante

• The Winter's Passed for oboe and string orchestra (1940)
• Lyrical Piece for clarinet and string orchestra (1947)
• Images for harp and chamber orchestra (1963)

Chamber music

• Intrada, Fugue and Postlude for brass ensemble (1960)
• Elegy for viola and piano (1967)
• Intermezzo for viola and harp (1980)
• Prelude, Air and Variation for bassoon, string quartet and piano
• Piano Quintet
• Triptych for string quartet

Piano

• Impressionist (1940)
• Dynamisms for 2 pianos (1966)
• Prelude in E
• Piano Sonata

Organ

• Three Christmas Tunes (1960)
• Four Chorale Voluntaries (1981)

Vocal

• Zion in Exile, Cantata for soprano, tenor, baritone and bass soli, mixed chorus and orchestra (1937)
• Madrigal for a Bright Morning for mixed chorus (1942); words by John R. Slater
• The Twenty-Third Psalm for mixed chorus and organ (1943)
• Poems for Music, Four Songs for soprano and orchestra (1958); poems by Robert Hillyer
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• Diversify the Abyss for male chorus and piano (1963); words by Hyam Plutzik
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• Missa Sanctis Thomae for unison voices (1963)
• We All Believe in One True God for mixed chorus, brass quartet (ad libitum) and organ (1968); words by Tobias Clausnitzer
• Voices of Darkness for reader, piano, percussion and tape (1974)
• Voices of Faith for soprano solo, narrator, mixed chorus and orchestra (1975)
• Three Songs after Shakespeare for soprano and piano

External links

• Wayne Barlow page
• [ Allmusic page]
• Interview with Wayne Barlow by Bruce Duffie, September 10, 1988