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Using Folk and Other Music as Material for Composing
Paul Chihara
Paul Chihara is Professor of Music Theory and Composition and Chair of the Composition Area at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also an accomplished composer for both the concert hall and for films, who studied with Nadia Boulanger, Ernst Pepping, and Gunther Schuller. His compositions have won numerous awards and have been played by notable ensembles around the world, and he has also written several groundbreaking ballets including Shin-ju and The Tempest. In addition, he has composed scores for nearly 100 feature films, including films by Sidney Lumet, Louis Malle, and Hayao Miyazaki.
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Description: Paul Chihara, Professor of Composition at UCLA, discusses his time working with the Ellington brothers and with Nadia Boulanger, and what he learned from them as to how one uses the music of their culture – whether folk, pop or jazz – as raw material for new compositions. He also discusses the near-universal appeal of big band music in every country he studied in, in the 1950s and 1960s, and draws from that some conclusions about what makes good material for composers.
Shoot Date: November 2007 |
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