BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Earle Brown was born on December 26, 1926, in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has received commissions from Pierre Boulez, Merce Cunningham, Luigi Nono, Lukas Foss, the city of Darmstadt, Germany, and the Rome Radio Orchestra, among others.

He has served as Composer-in-Residence at California Insitute of the Arts, Peabody Conservatory, Aspen Music Festival, American Academy in Rome, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Conservatory. He was also a visiting professor at the Cologne Conservatory, Basel Conservatory, SUNY at Buffalo, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Univ. of Southern California and Yale Univ.

In 1970, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Peabody Conservatory.

He worked with John Cage on the Project for Music for Magnetic Tape (1952-55).

Earle Brown died on July 2, 2002, after a long illness.

OTHER COMPOSITIONS INCLUDE

• Music, for vln., vcl., piano. (1952)
• Music for 'Tender Buttons', for speaker, flute, horn., hp. (1953)
• Octet I, for 8 tapes (1953)
• Indices, for chamber orchestra. (1954)
• Music, for vcl., piano. (1955)
• Pentathis, for ensemble. (1957)
• Hodograph, for ensemble. (1959)
• Available Forms I, for 18 musicians (1961)
• Light Music, for orchestra., lights, electronics (1961)
• Available Forms II, for orchestra, 2 conductors. (1962)
• Novara, for ensenble (1962)
• From Here, for SATB ensemble and 20 instruments (1963)
• Times Five, for ensemble and tape (1963)
• 9 Rarebits, for 1 or 2 harpsichords (1965)
• String Quartet (1965)
• Modules I-II, for orchestra. (1966),
• Calder Piece, for 4 percussion and mobile (1967),
• Event: Synergy II, for 11 woodwinds and 8 strings (1968),
• Module III, for orchestra. (1969),
• Small Pieces for Large Chorus (1970),
• Syntagm III, for 8 instruments (1970),
• New Piece (1970),
• New Piece Loops, for 17 instruments (1971),
• Time Spans, for orchestra (1972),
• Sign Sounds, for 18 instruments (1972),
• Centering, for vln. and chamb. orchestra (1973),
• Cross Sections and Color Fields, for orchestra (1975),
• Patchen, for chorus and orchestra (1979),
• Windsor Jambs, for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble (1980),
• Folio II, for unspecified instruments (1981),
• Sounder Rounds, for orchestra (1982),
• Tracer, for ensemble and tape (1984),
• Tracking Pierrot, for ensemble (1992).

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY ON NEW ALBION

Earle Brown: Works for Piano(s), 1951-1995
performed by David Arden, Piano(s)

• Corroboree (1964)*
  Three Pieces (1951)
• I
  
• II
  
• III
  Folio
  
• October 1952
  
• November 1952
  
• December 1952
  
• MM - 87
  
• MM - 135
  
• Music for Trio for Five Dancers
  June 1953
  
• 1953
  
• Perspectives (1952)
  
• 25 Pages (1953)*
  
• Forgotten Piece (c. 1954)
  
• Four Systems (1954)
  Summer Suite ‘95
  
• 6/12/95
  
• No Horns At All
  
• 18 6/14/95
  
• Untitled O
  
• Untitled O2
  
• 21 6/30/95
  
• Template 1
  
• Segment 2
  
• July 5
  
• July 6
  
• Segment 3A
  
• July 14
  
• August 1
  

  * The three piano parts in these works were recorded separately and mixed in post-production.

LINK
http://www.earle-brown.org