Steven Stucky

about

Steven Stucky (November 7, 1949 − February 14, 2016) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. Stucky was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. At age 9, he moved with his family to Abilene, Texas, where, as a teenager, he studied music in the public schools and, privately, viola with Herbert Preston, conducting with Leo Scheer, and composition with Macon Sumerlin. He attended Baylor University and Cornell. Stucky worked with Karel Husa and Daniel Sternberg. Stucky wrote commissioned works for many of the major American orchestras, including Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and St. Paul. He was long associated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was resident composer 1988–2009 (the longest such affiliation in American orchestral history); he was host of the New York Philharmonic's Hear & Now series 2005–09; and he was Pittsburgh Symphony Composer of the Year for the 2011–12 season. For Pittsburgh, he composed Silent Spring, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson's epochal book of the same title. He teamed with the celebrated pianist and author Jeremy Denk to create his first opera, The Classical Style (based on the celebrated book by Charles Rosen), which premiered in June 2014 at the Ojai Music Festival. Other noteworthy compositions by Stucky include the symphonic poem Radical Light (2007), Rhapsodies for Orchestra (2008), the oratorio August 4, 1964 (2008), a Symphony (2012), and

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albums

Stucky: Spirit Voices - Pinturas de Tamayo - Concerto for Orchestra No. 2

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Stucky: Dreamwaltzes / Chen: Duo Ye / Kilar: Krzesany

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Colors of Love

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Dialoghi

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Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba

Stucky: August 4, 1964

Steven Stucky: American Muse

Amargos: Northern Concerto / Bortz: Pipes and Bells / Stucky: Etudes

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Music for Wind Ensemble by Steven Stucky

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In Shadow, In Light

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Many are the wonders

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2014 American Choral Directors Association, Western Division (ACDA): Brigham Young University Singers & University of Arizona Symphonic Choir [Live]

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