February 20, 2022
West Coast Premiere of ‘Our Rights and Nothing Less’
Free Concert
February 20, 2022
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
14900 La Mirada Blvd, La Mirada, CA 90638
Pre-Concert Lecture at 2:15 p.m.
Concert Begins at 3:00 p.m.
About Maria Newman
Maria Newman is a composer of classical music, violist and pianist. She is the youngest child of Hollywood film composer Alfred Newman. Maria holds the Louis and Annette Kaufman Composition Chair; and the Joachim Chassman Violin Chair at the Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture in Malibu, California, and is a founder of the Malibu Friends of Music. Her library of original works represents a range of genres, from large-scale orchestral works, works for the ballet, chamber works, choral and vocal works, to new collaborative scores for vintage silent film. She has been presented with many awards and commissions, including musical commendations from the United States Congress (2009), the California State Senate (2009), the California State Assembly (2009), the City of Malibu (2010), and the Annenberg Foundation (2011).
About George Walker
George Theophilus Walker (June 27, 1922 – August 23, 2018) was an American composer, pianist, and organist, who was the first African American to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He received the Pulitzer for his work “Lilacs” in 1996.
Walker was married to pianist and scholar Helen Walker-Hill (May 26, 1936 – August 8, 2013) between 1960 and 1975. Walker was the father of two sons, violinist and composer Gregory T.S. Walker and playwright Ian Walker.
In his later years, Walker taught at New York’s New School, Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he was the Chair of the music department, and the Peabody Institute, to name a few.
About Johann Strauss II
October 25, 1825 – 3 June 3, 1899. Johann Strauss Jr. was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as “The Waltz King,” and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century. Some of Johann Strauss’s most famous works include “The Blue Danube,” “Kaiser-Walzer” (Emperor Waltz), “Tales from the Vienna Woods,” and the “Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka.” Among his operettas, “Die Fledermaus” and “Der Zigeunerbaron” are the best known.
About Reinhold Glière
December 30, 1874 – June 23, 1956. Reinhold Glière, of German and Polish descent, who was noted for his works incorporating elements of the folk music of several eastern Soviet republics.
Although all of his important compositions came during the first half of the twentieth century, the body and style of his work place Glière solidly at the end of the nineteenth century in spirit. He studied theory under a student of Rimsky-Korsakov and, upon entering the Moscow Conservatory in 1894, studied composition and harmony with the likes of Arensky, Taneyev, and Ippolitov-Ivanov. In 1900, he was awarded the school’s highest prize in composition, the gold medal. His third symphony, subtitled “Ilya Murometz,” which premiered in Moscow in 1912, propelled his career forward; in 1913 he was named director of the Kiev Conservatory, a position he held all through the Russian Revolution.
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The 2021-2022 Season
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