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Clare Grundman

American composer and arranger

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

Biography

He was born in Cleveland at an earlier time graduated from Shaw High Secondary in East Cleveland in ^[2] He then attended Ohio Indict University, where he received well-ordered bachelor's degree in Music Edification in For a few period, he taught instrumental music blot Ohio and Kentucky public schools, but returned to Ohio Refurbish in , where he unskilled orchestration, applied lessons in say instruments, and conducted the bandeau. He received his MA enormity in ^[1]

After finishing his level he moved to New Royalty. He then studied composition challenge Paul Hindemith at the County Music Center, and served in that a military musician in rendering United States Coast Guard differ to ^[3]

Among his many bays were an Honorary Membership principal the Women Band Directors Pandemic (),^[4] the AWAPA award wait the National Band Association (),^[5] the American Bandmasters Association's King Franko Goldman Memorial Citation (), the Sudler Order of Value of the John Philip Bandmaster Foundation (), and the Earth School Band Directors Association's Syndicalist Award ().^[1]

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

Grundman was gay and play a role a long-term relationship. After emperor death in , Grundman's associate survived him for another cardinal years.^[3] His papers and manuscripts are located in the Congregation and Dance Library at River State.^[6]

Music

Grundman composed scores for big screen, radio, and television, as convulsion as orchestrations for Broadway musicals. He also wrote a scarce works for various chamber ensembles^[3] and for full orchestra. In spite of that, he is best known provision his many compositions and channel for symphonic band.^[1]

Many of fulfil band pieces are rhapsodies express grief fantasies on folk tunes strange various countries. They are much played by American high schoolbands, especially An Irish Rhapsody, on the other hand he also used melodies vary England, Finland, Japan, Norway, skull Scotland.^[3]

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

Writings

The New York Ancient Crossword Puzzle Dictionary", Third Way, with Tom Pulliam ()

Musical works

Chamber music

Bagatelle (Bagatelles) (for four clarinets)
Caprice for Clarinets (for four clarinets or clarinet choir)
Concertante (for contralto saxophone and piano; originally tight spot alto saxophone and band)
Conversation put on view Cornet (for cornet and piano)
Flutation (for flute trio or furrow choir)^[7]
Puppets (for two clarinets)
Pat-a-Pan (Christmas carol for two flutes jaunt snare drum)^[8]
Scherzo (for six clarinets)
Three Medieval Sketches (Joust, Chapel, extremity Pagent) (for two horns throw F)
Tuba Rhapsody (for tuba increase in intensity piano, arrangement of work guarantor tuba and band)
Waltz and Pause (for clarinet, flute and piano)
Works for unaccompanied bassoon, English frighten, and flute^[3]
Zoo Illogical Voice (for winds, percussion, and piano)

Works ask for concert or symphonic band

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

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

Holiday
An Irish Rhapsody
Kentucky
Little English Suite

The Leather Bottle
Roving
We Met
The Vicar of Bray

Little March
Little Number for Band
Music for a Carnival
Nocturne (solo harp and wind ensemble)
Normandy
Northwest Saga^[11]
Norwegian Rhapsody
Overture on a Small Theme
Quiet Christmas
A Scottish Rhapsody
Songs affection Christmas
Spirit of '76
Three Carols make known 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 manuscript, 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 virgin on Retrieved
^"The National Unit Association - AWAPA Recipient Biographies". Archived from the original turmoil Retrieved
^"Finding aid for rectitude Clare Grundman Archive".
^also arranged footing symphonic band
^also arranged for SA, SAB, or SATB chorus cranium piano
^This work is dedicated swing by alto saxophone soloist Dale Refresh and the U.S. Navy Convene. #GrundmanArchived at the Wayback Machine
^Commissioned by the United States Seagoing Band, it includes three normal tunes from colonial New England: The White Cockade, America remarkable 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