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Composer's UM talk helps people appreciate music more
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Nov. 26, 1996
Contact: Richard Drake, 243-2981; Bruce Adolphe, (212) 875-5793 at work or (212) 787-7088 at home.
COMPOSER S UM TALK HELPS PEOPLE APPRECIATE MUSIC MORE
MISSOULA -
A composer whose works have been played all over the world will help a Missoula audience understand how to get more out of music when he visits The University of Montana Friday, Dec. 6.
Bruce Adolphe, education director and music administrator of the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center in New York City, will blend piano playing and discussion in a public lecture, “What to
Listen for in the World." Presented as part of the 1996-97 President’s Lecture Series, Adolphe’s free talk will begin at 8 p.m. in UM’s Music Recital Hall.
Adolphe is known for taking academics out of his talks and using humor and imagination to discuss the meaning of music in our lives and how music communicates.
A music educator, Adolphe has written two books that are used nationwide by educators: “The
Mind’s Ear (Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination)” and “What to Listen for in the World.”
He has composed chamber, orchestral, theatrical and operatic works that are performed by Itzhak
Perlman, the Beaux Arts I rio, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
“He has extraordinary and wide-ranging talent,” said Richard Drake, UM history professor and lecture series organizer.
Adolphe lectures before the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s concerts in Alice Tully
Hall. He also teaches workshops for children, young musicians, teachers and audience members.
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Adolphe has taught at Julliard School of Music, Yale University and New York University.
The Bitter, Sour, Salt Suite,” Adolphe’s recent comic composition for adults, is a solo violin
piece with poems about food that has been performed by Perlman at Avery Fisher Hall, The Kennedy
Center, Symphony Hall in Boston and other recital halls in the United States and Canada. Adolphe has
served as composer-in-residence at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music From Angel Fire.
Bravo! Colorado, the Grand Teton Festival and Chamber Music Northwest.
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