Piston: Symphony No. 4 / Three New England Sketches
11/14/2003, 8 Tracks, 51:37
Featuring
Gerard Schwarz
Therese Elder Wunrow
Seattle Symphony
Walter Piston
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Performer Biography
Therese Elder Wunrow, the harpist on this recording, served as principal harp of the Seattle Symphony from 1986 through the 1992-93 season.
Composer Biography
Walter Piston was educated at Harvard, where he later joined the faculty in 1926 after studying in Paris with Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger.
Composer Biography
Walter Piston, born in Maine in 1894, was raised in Boston from age ten and served three years in the Navy, playing saxophone in the Navy band.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Walter Piston's music combines uncommon rigor with a tone-poet's sensitivity, earning him respect from composer colleagues like Stravinsky and Sessions.
Composer Biography
Walter Piston was an influential teacher at Harvard, instructing students such as Elliott Carter, Irving Fine, Harold Shapero, and Leonard Bernstein.
Composer Biography
Walter Piston received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934 and Pulitzer Prizes for his third (1948) and seventh (1960) symphonies.
Critical Reception
Despite his extraordinary ear for orchestral timbre and contrapuntal skills, Walter Piston has often been dismissed as an 'academic' composer.
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