Fake Composer Bios!
an ongoing series of profiles of some of America's leading contemporary composers that will show that the classical music scene in America is FAR from dead!*
Charles Campbell Richardson
Charles Campbell Richardson caught the music bug at an early age, and has been composing ever since he was 3. Born and raised in Norfolk, Virgina, Richardson attended Norfolk Music Conservatory and earned a degree in Composition and Ethnomusicology, where his specialty was the musics of Pokomoke Indians of the Eastern United States.
To date he has written over 9000 compositions from large operas to children's songs. He has written over 400 pieces for the Kazoo, including a concerto for Kazoo, Pokomoke Pan Flute and Brass entitled The Dream of Standing Bull.
2001 saw the premiere of his 6-hour opera on the Diary of Anne Frank, Dear Kitty, premiered at Shenanigans Dinner Theater Cabaret in Norfolk to rave reviews from Richardson's wife, Gail.
The year also saw the premiere of a large cantata for soprano, mixed choir, and large orchestra (with organ) inspired by the events of September 11th, 2001, We Will Never Forget. Dedicated to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, it is a 2 hour long, emotionally harrowing work of great pathos, which quotes the National Anthem, Sousa marches and Copland for it's triumphant ending. Written and completed in the 20 minutes after the second plane hit the tower, Richardson's score was premiered at a charity concert in the park by the Norfolk Policeman's Choir and Orchestra, with Richardson's wife Gail as soprano soloist.
For his future projects, Richardson remains quiet, but admits to working on a set of songs on the poems of singer-songwriter Jewel ("A great talent" says the composer), another opera on Yann Martel's Life of Pi, a set of ballets for Norfolk's Johnson High's dance troupe on Dan Brown's Da-Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, and another large work for orchestra and chorus about September 11th, Martin Luther King, Indians, and Anne Frank.
Whatever he writes, when Richardson puts pen to paper it's solid proof that America's composers rival those of Europe's and can write great music without being too "ugly" as Richardson puts it. Richardson is also currently eagerly waiting the deaths of Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen and Milton Babbitt.
We can expect great things from this composer in the future.
an ongoing series of profiles of some of America's leading contemporary composers that will show that the classical music scene in America is FAR from dead!*
Charles Campbell Richardson
Charles Campbell Richardson caught the music bug at an early age, and has been composing ever since he was 3. Born and raised in Norfolk, Virgina, Richardson attended Norfolk Music Conservatory and earned a degree in Composition and Ethnomusicology, where his specialty was the musics of Pokomoke Indians of the Eastern United States.
To date he has written over 9000 compositions from large operas to children's songs. He has written over 400 pieces for the Kazoo, including a concerto for Kazoo, Pokomoke Pan Flute and Brass entitled The Dream of Standing Bull.
2001 saw the premiere of his 6-hour opera on the Diary of Anne Frank, Dear Kitty, premiered at Shenanigans Dinner Theater Cabaret in Norfolk to rave reviews from Richardson's wife, Gail.
The year also saw the premiere of a large cantata for soprano, mixed choir, and large orchestra (with organ) inspired by the events of September 11th, 2001, We Will Never Forget. Dedicated to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, it is a 2 hour long, emotionally harrowing work of great pathos, which quotes the National Anthem, Sousa marches and Copland for it's triumphant ending. Written and completed in the 20 minutes after the second plane hit the tower, Richardson's score was premiered at a charity concert in the park by the Norfolk Policeman's Choir and Orchestra, with Richardson's wife Gail as soprano soloist.
For his future projects, Richardson remains quiet, but admits to working on a set of songs on the poems of singer-songwriter Jewel ("A great talent" says the composer), another opera on Yann Martel's Life of Pi, a set of ballets for Norfolk's Johnson High's dance troupe on Dan Brown's Da-Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, and another large work for orchestra and chorus about September 11th, Martin Luther King, Indians, and Anne Frank.
Whatever he writes, when Richardson puts pen to paper it's solid proof that America's composers rival those of Europe's and can write great music without being too "ugly" as Richardson puts it. Richardson is also currently eagerly waiting the deaths of Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen and Milton Babbitt.
We can expect great things from this composer in the future.
posted by PWS at 3:18 PM
5 Comments:
bios of fake composers or fake bios of composers? 9000 compositions? you're shitting me. Telemann only managed 3000 some.
I dont like this, and i trust no one who wants people to die.
ok, you are shitting me. I shouldnt be so gullible... 9000 compositions? ....but i still dont understand... whhhhy?
I made this guy up and just found a picture of some dude. I just wanted to make fun of horrible composers.
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worked well, though i was somewhat concerned and confused. The description certainly made the music sound terrible.
Sadly this is pretty common. Look on Sequenza 21 and associates and you'll have quite a few composers like this-dull, cliched, way too prolific etc.
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