The style emerged out of the political crisis in 1956, following Stalin's death ; that same year saw the Warsaw Autumn music festival inaugurated, from whence came additional popularity for the Polish Composers ' School.

Kuster stated that the idea for Myrrha came when she was asked by the American Composers Orchestra to write a love-and-erotica themed concert.

Composers came from all over Europe to study with him, and his standards were high both for singing and composition.

Many of Bennett ’ s original works came about through direct commission ; the 1939 World ’ s Fair, CBS radio (" Hollywood " for orchestra ), and the League of Composers (" Mademoiselle " for the Goldman Band ) provide prominent examples.

Composers from northern Europe — especially Flanders and France — were already renowned as the most skilled composers in Europe, and many of them came to Venice.

Composers from the north, especially the Franco-Flemish composers from the present-day Low Countries, came to sing in his chapel and write masses, motets and secular music for him.

Composers who visited Ferrara during the period included numerous important masters such as Claudio Monteverdi, John Dowland, Orlande de Lassus, Claudio Merulo, and, most importantly, Carlo Gesualdo.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

In 1972, Wills accepted a citation from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in Nashville.

Composers from this period sought dramatic effects, striking melodies, and clearer textures.

In her 60-year-long career, Peggy was the recipient of three Grammy Awards ( including the Lifetime Achievement Award ), an Academy Award nomination, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ) Award, the President's Award, the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center.

Lee is a recipient of North Dakota's Roughrider Award ; the Pied Piper Award from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ); the Presidents Award, from the Songwriters Guild of America ; the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement, from the Society of Singers ; and the Living Legacy Award, from the Women's International Center.

The group had hoped to cover a number of different artists, but only two albums from this period saw completion and release-1984's George and James ( dedicated to George Gershwin and James Brown ) and 1986's Stars & Hank Forever: The American Composers Series ( featuring tributes to Hank Williams and John Philip Sousa ).

The film also won an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

The song " The Ballad of Jack Eric Williams ( and Other Three-Named Composers )" from William Finn's song-cycle Elegies refers to him.

**" Tears In Heaven " (# 2, nominated for a Golden Globe award, 1993 Grammy for Song Of The Year, 1993 Ivor Novello award from British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors )

The SFS has won eleven awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for programming of new music and commitment to American music.

For the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers ( CISAC ), Gibb served as president from 2007 to 2012.

The music industry and fans have bestowed Lifetime Achievement honors from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award – 2002 ), NAACP ( Hall of Fame – 1994 ) and the BET Awards ( Lifetime Achievement Award – 2002 ).

A live album from the band's 1980 performance in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, entitled Live In Rio, was released on Maurice White's Kalimba Records label in 2002, and that same year EWF was honored with the Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

* Matthew de Lacey Davidson • QUATRE MÉLODIES QUÉBÉCOISES: Music set to four poems by three Québécois authors: Albert Lozeau ( 1878-1924 ), Blanche Lamontagne-Beauregard ( 1889-1958 ), and Émile Nelligan ( 1879-1941 ), 2012 ( 1 partition: 44 pages, available from the Canadian Music Centre, The American Composers Alliance, and SOUNZ-The New Zealand Music Centre ).

Composers who reference the Council ’ s reforms in prefaces to their compositions do not adequately claim a musical basis from the Council but a spiritual and religious basis of their art.

Composers from this era included Ferenc Szabó, Endre Szervánszky, Pál Kadosa, Ferenc Farkas and György Ránki.

He also received other awards including Music Accomplishment Award ( from Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Ltd .), Highest Honour Award ( from RTHK Ten Best Chinese Music Program ), Best Music Award and Best Lyric Award ( from Asia Film Festival ), Hong Kong Film Awards, Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards and many others.

Composers such as Richard Strauss and Giacomo Puccini heaped praise on him, and many famous conductors, soloists and singers added his works to their repertoires.

He has played and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Jackie McLean, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard and The New Jazz Composers Octet, Benny Golson's New Jazztet, One for All ( Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth ), Hank Jones, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Eddie Henderson, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band ( featuring Slide Hampton, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove ), Avishai Cohen, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Michael Weiss, among many others.

A New York group, the Herbie Nichols Project ( part of the Jazz Composers ' Collective ) has recorded three albums largely dedicated to unrecorded Nichols ' compositions, many of which Nichols had deposited in the Library of Congress.

Composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, Carlos Chávez, and Heitor Villa-Lobos used folk themes collected by themselves or others in many of their major compositions.

In 1964 Bley was instrumental in the formation of the Jazz Composers Guild-a co-operative organisation which brought together many free jazz musicians in New York: Roswell Rudd, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, his ex-wife Carla Bley, Michael Mantler, Sun Ra, among others.

During her career she has won many awards, including the George Ladd Prix de Paris, the Rome Prize ( 1978 ), and the ISCM National Composers Competition ( twice ).

In 1982, he won first prizes for composition and went on to win many more, including the Acanthes Prize in 1983, the Beethovenpreis awarded by Bonn in 1986, the Marescotti Prize ( 1986 ), both the Gaudeamus International Composers Award and the Henriette Renié prizes in 1988, and the Siemens-Förderpreis ( 1990 ).

At the 2005 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Pop Music Awards, Dupri received the ASCAP Golden Note Award for co-writing the song, alongside his many achievements and contributions to American popular music.

He joined the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers ( ASCAP ) in 1941 and went on to compose the music for many motion pictures.

Composers represented in the annual festival have included such artists as Meredith Monk, Muhal Richard Abrams, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Frederic Rzewski, Margaret Leng Tan, Henry Brant, Conlon Nancarrow, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Lou Harrison, Laurie Anderson, LaMonte Young, Leroy Jenkins, Janice Giteck, Kyle Gann, Olly Wilson, William Parker, Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman, Brian Eno and many others.

This has been reissued on CD, together with many more of Stravinsky's early recordings, by EMI as part of their " Composers in Person " series.

Composers who do not have programming experience to create the technology end of a piece for ensemble and electronics are provided with an assistant who helps them to realize technically intensive parts of the piece.

Composers are routinely trained in the " Palestrina style " to this day, especially as codified by the 18c music theorist Johann Joseph Fux.

Composers of the Renaissance wrote a fair amount of program music, especially for the harpsichord, including works such as Martin Peerson's The Fall of the Leafe and William Byrd's The Battell.

Composers who have written settings of the Stabat Mater include Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Antonio Vivaldi, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ; of the latter's setting, the German poet Tieck opined: " I had to turn away to hide my tears, especially at the place, ' Vidit suum dulcem natum '".

Composers who have written music especially for Sigmund Groven include Øistein Sommerfeldt, Terje Rypdal, James Moody, Johan Kvandal, Oddvar S. Kvam, Ketil Bjørnstad, Kristian Lindeman, Henning Sommerro, Iver Kleive, Egil Kapstad, Kenneth Sivertsen, Johan Øian, John Surman, Siegfried Steinkogler, Lars Tilling, and Fried Walter.

Composers who wrote solo harpsichord music were numerous during the whole Baroque era in European countries including Italy, Germany, England and France.

Composers who wrote a called " Missa Solemnis " have included France Ačko ( 1941 ), Hendrik Andriessen ( 1946 ), Marco Betta, František Brixi, Antonio Buonomo ( 1983 ), Alfredo Casella ( 1944 ), Paul Creston, Georg Druschetzky ( 1804 ), Bohumil Fidler ( 1901 ), Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Konstanty Gorski, Michael Haydn ( 1772 ), Václav Emanuel Horák, Sigurd Islandsmoen ( 1954 ), Friedrich Kiel, Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Josef Lammerz ( 1990 ), Boleslaw Ocias and Johann Nepomuk Schelble, Wolfgang Seifen, Johann Baptist Vanhal ( 1778 ), Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann ( 1848 ).

Composers such as Claude Le Jeune, who was to become the most influential musician in France in the late 16th century, and Jacques Mauduit, who carried the Academie's ideas into the 17th century, soon joined the group, which remained secretive as to its intents and techniques.

Her works have been performed at festivals such as Holland Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, Music Biennale Zagreb, Archipel Festival ( Swiss ), Time of Music ( Finland ), Festival Aspekte ( Austria ), A-devantgarde ( Germany ), Manca ( France ), International Review of Composers ( Serbia ) among others.

Frazin's music is for the most part recognizably tonal, and is characterized by an expressive style that often develops and repeats distinctive small motifs, Frazin's works have been performed throughout the US, Canada, France, and Russia, including festivals at Aspen, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Gamper Contemporary Music Festival, Yellow Barn Summer Music Festival, the Janus 21 Ensemble Summer Series, the Composers ' Forum of New York, the Society of Composers National Conference, and elsewhere.

Composers at least some of whose work can be described as galant include Jean-Féry Rebel of France, Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Baldassare Galuppi, and Antonio Vivaldi of Italy, the three most important Bach sons ( W. F., C. P. E. and J. C .), Georg Philipp Telemann, and Johann Gottlieb Graun of Germany, and in England Thomas Augustine Arne, William Boyce, and John Stanley.

Among Mackey's notable awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, two awards from the Kennedy Center for the performing arts, and the Stoeger Prize for Chamber Music by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Miami performing arts center acknowledged his contributions to orchestral music with a special career achievement award, the Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress, the Fromm Foundation, the 1987 Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, and was chosen to represent the United States in the International Composers Rostrum in Paris, France.