Dr. Barney Childs is Regents' Lecturer
May 4, 1967
Dr. Barney Childs, composer and poet, has been appointed by the University of California Board of Regents to lecture during a two week period for the Department of Music at the San Diego campus. He will give two free programs open to the public, Thursday, May 11 and Friday, May 12. Both begin at 8:30 p.m. in the east wing of Building 210, Matthews Campus.
The Thursday program will be an illustrated lecture entitled "Poetry and Music as Sound Structures." Friday's program will be a lecture-concert on "New Indeterminate Music." The world premier performance for David Jones' composition "Dimensions II," and two other works, "Concerto for Anything" by Philip Krumm, and "Sonata VI" by David Ahlstrom are scheduled for the program.
Dr. Childs is presently the Dean of Deep Springs College, California. He received his B.A. from the University of Nevada, and a B.A. with honors from Oxford University. He earned his masters degree from Oxford and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Dr. Childs, a Rhodes Scholar, has received numerous awards and fellowships, including: the Stanford University Humanities Prize for Musical Composition, the Stanford University Fellowship in Creative Writing, the Serge Koussevitsky Memorial Award in Composition, Tanglewood, and two fellowships, to the Bennington Composers Conference and to the MacDowell Colony.
As a composer, Dr. Childs considers himself primarily self-taught. He studied with Leonard Ratner at Stanford, Carlos Chavez and Aaron Copland at the Berteshire Music Festival (Tanglewood) on Crofts Fellowships, and Elliott Carter in New York.
Dr. Childs is a member of the American Composers Alliance, American Society of University Composers, American Music Center and the Philological Association Of the Pacific Coast.
An accomplished writer, Dr. Childs has written music reviews, record and book reviews, as well as many articles and poems for leading literary magazines. He was co-editor with Elliott Schwartz of "Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music."
Dr. Childs, who has written more than 80 works, including two symphonies and six string quartets, has received commissions from Bennington College, Wolverhampton Technical College (England), University of Illinois Contemporary Players, Montreal Brass Quintet, and individual musicians.