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Artist
Lois V. Vierk
12+ albums
contemporary classicalcomposeramericaninstrumentalClassical
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The composer Lois V Vierk does not use a period after the initial V in the middle of her name. Check any of her commercially available recordings, her Web site Lois V Vierk or any other usage over which she has had editorial control and you will always see her name spelled without a period after the letter V. Yes this is a non-standard English spelling, but it is her chosen spelling of her name. Should we start listing Jimmy Hendrix and Susie and the Banshees rather than Jimi Hendrix & Siouxsie and the Banshees because these names use the standard English spellings of their names? I think not. Vierk's wikipedia bio is below: Lois V Vierk (born August 4, 1951, Hammond, Indiana) is a "post-minimalist" or "totalist" composer who lives in New York City. She received a B.A. degree in piano and ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1974. She then attended Cal Arts, studying composition with Mel Powell, Leonard Stein, and Morton Subotnick, receiving her M.F.A. in 1978. She has conducted extensive study of gagaku music, studying for ten years with Suenobu Togi in Los Angeles, and for two years in Tokyo with Sukeyasu Shiba (the lead ryūteki player in Japan's Imperial Court Orchestra). She has written many chamber works for different ensembles which are multiples of the same instrument. Her work uses glissando prominently and builds exponentially in level of activity. More recently she has exampled to mixed instrument ensembles, such as in her piece Timberline (music) commissioned by the
