Composer
Judith Shatin (1949-); USA
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A well-respected composer working in many musical genres, Judith Shatin Allen is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Douglass College, as well as a recipient of the M.M. from Juilliard School and a Ph.D. from Princeton. Among her awards are two NEA Composer Fellowships, a Chamber Opera Commission from the Ash Lawn Summer Festival, a New Jersey State Arts Council Grant, and awards from "Meet the Composer" and the American Music Center.
Her works have been performed by the Houston Symphony, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Contemporary Music Forum, the E.A.R. Ensemble, and the Sylvan and Clarion Wind Quintets. Her Icarus, for violin and piano, was performed at the National Gallery's American Music Festival in Washington, D.C., and her Glyph, for viola, string quartet, and piano, was premiered at the Thirteenth International Viola Congress in Boston.
Her Aura, for orchestra, was composed under an NEA Composer Fellowship in 1981, premiered in 1982 by the Charlottesville University and Community Orchestra; it was subsequently performed and recorded by the Richmond Symphony under the Direction of Jacques Houtmann in 1985. This recording is available on vinyl from Opus One Records.
Aura is a large-scale work of just under twenty minutes' duration. The basic musical material derives from a tone-row chosen for its whole-tone characteristics. According to the composer, "The surface of the piece focuses on small subgroups from the underlying row, with a resultant tonal quality; 'Aura' also refers to traditional form in its dramatic use of transposed recurrent themes which reach a state of resolution at its close."
The work has a distinct post-romantic quality while maintaining a tonally-flexible freedom; the composer effectively manipulates orchestral timbres to create a mystical aura consisting of clouds of sound materials. As the composer explained, "Just as every verbal utterance has its own tone of voice, its affective extension, so does every sound. It is this ineffable extra that 'Aura' celebrates."
© Philip Krumm, All Music Guide
Her works have been performed by the Houston Symphony, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Contemporary Music Forum, the E.A.R. Ensemble, and the Sylvan and Clarion Wind Quintets. Her Icarus, for violin and piano, was performed at the National Gallery's American Music Festival in Washington, D.C., and her Glyph, for viola, string quartet, and piano, was premiered at the Thirteenth International Viola Congress in Boston.
Her Aura, for orchestra, was composed under an NEA Composer Fellowship in 1981, premiered in 1982 by the Charlottesville University and Community Orchestra; it was subsequently performed and recorded by the Richmond Symphony under the Direction of Jacques Houtmann in 1985. This recording is available on vinyl from Opus One Records.
Aura is a large-scale work of just under twenty minutes' duration. The basic musical material derives from a tone-row chosen for its whole-tone characteristics. According to the composer, "The surface of the piece focuses on small subgroups from the underlying row, with a resultant tonal quality; 'Aura' also refers to traditional form in its dramatic use of transposed recurrent themes which reach a state of resolution at its close."
The work has a distinct post-romantic quality while maintaining a tonally-flexible freedom; the composer effectively manipulates orchestral timbres to create a mystical aura consisting of clouds of sound materials. As the composer explained, "Just as every verbal utterance has its own tone of voice, its affective extension, so does every sound. It is this ineffable extra that 'Aura' celebrates."
© Philip Krumm, All Music Guide
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Chamber Works
24 tracks
- Dreamtigers, for flute & guitar
1 track
- Fledermaus, for violin & piano (after Strauss)
4 tracks
- Gazebo Music, for flute & cello
1 track
- Icarus, for violin & piano
4 tracks
- Penelope's Song, for violin & piano
1 track
- Secret Ground, for chamber ensemble
1 track
- Spin, for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, ciola & cello
1 track
- Tower of the Eight Winds, for violin & piano
4 tracks
- View from Mt. Nebo, for chamber ensemble
3 tracks
- Werther, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
1 track
- Widdershins, for violin & piano
3 tracks
- Dreamtigers, for flute & guitar
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Vocal Works
4 tracks
- Choral Works
1 track
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Solo Vocal Works
3 tracks
- Choral Works
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Orchestral Works
8 tracks
- Piping the Earth
1 track
- Stringing the Bow
1 track
- Ruah
3 tracks
- The Passion of St. Cecilia
3 tracks
- Piping the Earth
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