Juli Nunlist

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Juli Nunlist (1916 – 2006) received a B.A. in English Composition from Barnard College in 1940, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. In 1957, at the age of 40, she entered Manhattan School of Music as a composition major, and received her Bachelor’s degree in 1961 and her Master’s in 1964, studying with Vittorio Giannini, Ludmila Ulehla, and Nicholas Flagello. Her Spells is a choral setting of six poems by the English poet Kathleen Raine and was chosen for performance by the University of Kansas Concert Choir (Clayton Krehbiel conducting) at the Sixth Annual Symposium of Contemporary American Music, April 1964. In addition to Spells, her works include this string quartet, piano, choral, and chamber music, and a symphonic tone suite after Juan Ramon Jimenez’ prose poems, Platero and I. Mrs. Nunlist was a member of ASCAP, the American Music Center and the American Women Composers, Inc., and was for fifteen years a member of the Cleveland Composers Guild. Much of her career was devoted to the teaching of music to dancers, dance teachers and choreographers in connection with the National Association for Regional Ballet at numerous Craft of Choreography conferences and workshops throughout the United States and Canada. She worked with Pauline Koner, Bella Lewitzky, Fernand Nault, Todd Bolender, Alexandra Danilova and Barbara Weisberger, and was personally commended for her work by the late George Balanchine. She designed and taught special courses in Music for Dancers and Dance Co

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Spells: Works of Juli Nunlist

Spells: The Works Of Juli Nunlist

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The Sky's The Limit: A Celebration Of 20th Century American Music For Flute

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Classical Music Discoveries

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