Bethany Beardslee (born December 25, 1925) is an American soprano . She is particularly noted for her collaborations with major 20th-century composers, such as Igor Stravinsky , Milton Babbitt , Pierre Boulez , George Perle, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and her performances of great contemporary classical music by Arnold Schoenberg , Alban Berg , Anton Webern . Her legacy amongst mid-century composers was as a "composer's singer"—for her commitment to the highest art of new music. Milton Babbitt said of her "She manages to learn music no one else in the world can. She can work, work, work." In a 1961 interview for Newsweek, Beardslee flaunted her unflinching repertoire and disdain for commercialism: "I don't think in terms of the public... Music is for the musicians. If the public wants to come along and study it, fine. I don't go and try to tell a scientist his business because I don't know anything about it. Music is just the same way. Music is not entertainment."
16-527: Beardslee is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bethany Beardslee (born 1925), American soprano noted for her performances of contemporary classical music Donald Beardslee (1943–2005), United States murderer executed by means of a lethal injection in San Quentin State Prison, California Henry Curtis Beardslee Sr. (1807–1884), American physician, botanist and state legislator, with
32-664: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bethany Beardslee Beardslee was born in Lansing, Michigan . She trained first in the Music Department of Michigan State College (now Michigan State University ), where she received her B.M. (cum laude), and later did post-graduate work at the Juilliard School . She trained with Louise Zemlinsky (wife of Alexander Zemlinsky ) She received an honorary doctorate from Princeton University in 1977, an honorary Ph.D. from
48-976: The National Endowment for the Arts and the International Society for Contemporary Music . She held fellowships at the MacDowell Colony , where she received the Faye Barnaby Kent Fellow. During 2001-2, she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2003 Zallman was a guest composer-in-residence at the Rocca di Mezzo Music Festival in the Abruzzi region of Italy. Zallman has two daughters. She died in her home in Wellesley in 2006 and
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80-720: The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible See also [ edit ] Beardslee Castle , castle in Little Falls, New York, USA, constructed in 1860 as a replica of an Irish castle Beardslee Telegraph , portable military telegraph developed by George Beardslee and adopted by Alfred Myer Beardslee trout , local form of Rainbow trout endemic to Lake Crescent in Washington Beardsley (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
96-775: The New School of Music in Philadelphia, PA in 1984, and from the New England Conservatory in 1994. Her first husband, the French conductor Jacques-Louis Monod , whom she married in 1951, introduced her to the basic vocal repertoire of the Second Viennese School . Together they toured the United States through the 1950s and gave recitals of this literature combined with basic Lieder. Monod's influence brought Beardslee onto
112-566: The Second Viennese School. Beardslee started working closely with Milton Babbitt in 1949. Babbitt was one of Beardslee's longest and most important musical collaborations. He composed a number of pieces for Beardslee's sharp crystal soprano and dramatic wit, including: Du a Song Cycle for soprano and piano on the poetry of August Stramm, "Vision and Prayer: poetry by Dylan Thomas," Philomel text by John Hollander, "A Solo Requiem" in honor of her late husband, Godfrey Winham. In 1962 she
128-681: The US and abroad. In 1961, Beardslee sang for Martha Graham 's premiere of Clytemnestra . She premiered new works by Babbitt, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Krenek, Webern, Dallapiccola, Berg. Her first performance of Pierrot Lunaire was in New York at Town Hall with Jacques-Louis Monod conducting, for Camera Concerts in November 1955. Beardslee performed with the following major orchestras: These Quartets: Lieder Recitals with: Arlene Zallman Arlene Zallman (9 September 1934 – 25 November 2006)
144-724: The Weill Recital Hall in New York City. About that performance, Alex Ross wrote in The New York Times that "the legendary soprano Bethany Beardslee-Winham, now well into her sixties, remains a compelling interpreter of new music." In retirement, she was president of APNM (Association for the Publication of New Music) and produced a number of CDs of her own performances, as well as the compositions of her late husband Godfrey Winham, and her friend Arlene Zallman . She has lived for
160-567: The botanical author abbreviation H.C.Beardslee Henry Curtis Beardslee (1865–1948), American botanist and mycologist, with the botanical author abbreviation Beardslee Lester A. Beardslee (1836–1903), United States Navy officer who served as the commander of the Department of Alaska from 1879 to 1880 Robert Beardslee (1868–1926), Republican city attorney of Stockton, California and state legislator William A. Beardslee (1916–2001), professional theologian who made major contributions to
176-789: The faculty of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Yale University and then became a professor of composition at Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1976. She received the Marion S. Freschl Award for Vocal Composition, and awards from Meet the Composer , the Mellon Foundation , the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation . Her Three Songs from Quasimodo won awards from both
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#1732848123084192-455: The past thirteen years (as of when, the latest source is 2007) in a historic Georgian mansion, Maizeland, in the Hudson Valley, near her family. Her virtuosity is displayed in many recordings of music of the Second Viennese School as well as works written for her, notably Milton Babbitt 's Philomel . During the 1950s, she performed world premieres and made historic recordings of music of
208-409: The path that would become her career in contemporary classical music. In 1956, she married the composer Godfrey Winham , a pioneer in the research of computer music of the period. They have two children, Baird and Christopher Winham. Godfrey Winham died in 1975. She retired officially in 1984, though she performed a number of times in the decade that followed. Her final public performance was 1993 at
224-526: Was an American composer and music educator . Zallman was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Juilliard School of Music . She received a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania , where she studied composition with Vincent Persichetti and George Crumb . In 1959 she received a two-year Fulbright Scholarship to Florence, Italy , to study with Luigi Dallapiccola . She held positions on
240-489: Was given the American Composers Alliance Laurel Leaf Award for "distinguished achievement in fostering and encouraging American music." The Ford Foundation Award in 1964 gave Beardslee the possibility to commission Milton Babbitt to write "Philomel". Beardslee's recording with Robert Craft of Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" (Columbia Records, 1961) was a milestone in 20th-century music. It
256-633: Was the first recording of the piece that used the sprechstimme in the way that Schoenberg had conceived the piece. Craft, who conducted it, said to Beardslee that "your performance is the first that anyone can listen to beginning to end with total pleasure and belief in the sprechstimme medium. You have made a permanent document." It was also the recording used by Glen Tetley when he choreographed Pierrot Lunaire . In 1977–78, Rudolf Nureyev , dancing Tetley's choreography to Beardslee's live performances, appeared together in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. Beardslee went on to perform "Pierrot" over fifty times in
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