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Gordon Binkerd
12+ albums
2jumagammarecus-contemporary
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(1916-2003) For more than five decades, Gordon Binkerd, a sturdy andenergetic man of the Prairie, labored quietly writing music andtending his fertile black earth of trees and flowers. He delighted inmaking things grow. The strong musical forms that sprang from hisordered mind were as organic as plant growth, and as beautiful as thestark Nebraska landscape to which he was born. In discussion about SunSinger, Binkerd's first major orchestral work, Howard Pollack, in hisbook Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and His Students, from ElliottCarter to Frederic Rzewski, found it harder to describe Binkerd'sstyle than to label the music of his contemporaries: "The work'snational ambiance stood in some contrast to Piston's New England, orHarris's Far West, or even Kubik's Midwest, evoking rather Binkerd'snative Northern Plains, with its antiphonal textures and modalmelodies suggesting Lutheran Church music, and in its vigorous rhythmsand repeated snippets, Indian ceremonial music. And though the work'sregionalism bore some resemblance to that other symphonist fromNebraska, Howard Hanson, of whom Binkerd also could be seen assomething of a successor, Binkerd's classical elegance had no room forthe picturesque or sentimental, and his kind of dark, romanticregionalism probably was matched sooner by the novels of Willa Catherthan by the symphonies of Hanson or anyone else." Gordon Ware Binkerd, the eldest of three sons of Archibald andVerna Jones Binkerd, was born in Lynch, Nebraska on M
top songs
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Essays for the Piano V, She to Him
182Essays for the Piano IV, Lightly, like Music running
153Essays for the Piano VI, Shut out that Moon
124Essays for Piano (Excerpts): No. 6, Shut Out That Moon
55Essays for Piano (Excerpts): No. 5, She, to Him
46Symphony No. 2: Symphony No. 2: I. Moderately fast
4711 Chorale Preludes, Op. posth. 122: No. 8. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (arr. G. Binkerd)
38Symphony No. 2: Symphony No. 2: II. Slow
39Essays for Piano (Excerpts): No. 4, Lightly, Like Music Running
310Sonata For Piano (1955): Allegro Moderato
2albums
Choral Concert : Praetorius, M. / Bach, J.S. / Kirkpatrick, W.J. / Wade, J.F. / Silcher, F. / Berg, A. / Brahms, J.
Martin Perry Plays Gordon Binkerd & Charles Ives
Kay: Sinfonia in E; Binkerd: Symphony No. 2
Sonata For Piano (1955) / Sonata For 'Cello And Piano (1948)
Ulysses Kay: Sinfonia In E • Gordon Binkerd: Symphony No. 2
Gordon Binkerd: Sonata for Piano • Ernst Bacon: Sonata for 'Cello and Piano
Arnold Elston: String Quartet - Gordon Binkerd: Cello Sonata
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Binkerd: Symphony No. 4
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Sing Unto the Lord a New Song!
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Ulysses Kay: Sinfonia In E / Gordon Binkerd: Symphony No. 2
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Symphony No. 4
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Binkerd: Sun Singer / Weigel: Prairie Symphony