William Bolcom
Born: 26th May 1938, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A
Nationality: American
William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. He taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973 until 2008 and was named the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Composition in 2006. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.
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Further Reading: Bolcom
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Marc-André Hamelin on the Rags of William Bolcom
18th Jul 2022
The pianist talks about his recently-released recording of rags by William Bolcom, the revivalist craze that Bolcom spearheaded, and his own relationship with an indefatigable veteran of the American composing scene.
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Marc-André Hamelin performs William Bolcom's complete piano rags
10th Jun 2022
The Canadian pianist brings the 1960s' great ragtime revival into the present with a new recording of the complete rags of one of its leading lights.
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Popular Works: Bolcom
- 9 Bagatelles (3)
- Amor (11)
- At the last lousy moments of love (2)
- Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1-4 (7)
- Cello Sonata (2)
- Classic Rags (3) (2)
- Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (2)
- Concerto Grosso (2)
- Epithalamium (3)
- Eubie's Luckey Day (2)
- Fields of Flowers (4)
- First Symphony for Band (2)
- Four Cabaret Songs (2)
- Fur (Murray the Furrier) (2)
- George (5)
- Ghost Rags (3) (3)
- Knight Hubert (2)
- Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise (3)
- Neighbors on this frosty tide (Carol) (2)
- Never more will the wind (2)
- New York Lights (2)
- Night, Make My Day (2)
- Over the Piano (3)
- Popular Rags (3) (2)
- Raggin' Rudi (3)
- Recuerdos (6)
- Song of Black Max (7)
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) (2)
- Surprise! (2)
- Symphony No. 5 (5)
- The Actor (2)
- The Brooklyn Dodge (4)
- The Garden of Eden (7)
- The Gardenia (2)
- The Graceful Ghost Rag (19)
- The Mask (2)
- Toothbrush time (4)
- Twelve New Etudes (4)
- Violin Sonata No. 2 (3)
- Waitin' (7)
Recent Best Sellers: Bolcom
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Bolcom: The Complete Rags
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th June 2022
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