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Marshall Rutter
Marshall Anthony Rutter (October 18, 1931 – December 4, 2024) was an American lawyer, arts patron and choral music administrator. He was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Master Chorale in 1964, and also a leader of the advocacy group Chorus America. His daughter is the arts administrator Deborah Rutter. Life and career Rutter was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He attended Radley College in the UK for one year (1949-50) on an Exchange Fellowship from the Hill School, then studied arts at Amherst College and law at the University of Pennsylvania. Rutter moved to Los Angeles in 1959 and was called to the bar in 1960. He joined the Los Angeles-based lawyers O'Melveny & Myers and later co-founded the Californian law firm Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff in 1973, specializing in family law. After retirement at the age of 75, he set up his own small practice in Pasadena from 2010 to 2019. At the urging of founding conductor Roger Wagner, Rutter helped set up the Master Chorale in 1964 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Master Chorale
The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a professional Choir, chorus in Los Angeles, California, and one of the resident companies of both The Music Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1964 by Roger Wagner to be one of the three original resident companies of the Music Center of Los Angeles County. Grant Gershon has been its music director since 2001, replacing Paul Salamunovich. The Master Chorale performs about ten times per year in its own season. It has presented more than 450 concerts, including early choral music to contemporary compositions. Noted for presenting numerous world, U.S. and West Coast premieres, the chorus has commissioned 24 and premiered 40 new works. The Master Chorale regularly performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, both at the Music Center and at the Hollywood Bowl, with such leading conductors as Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Zubin Mehta, André Previn, Pierre Boulez, Michael Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morten Lauridsen
Morten Johannes Lauridsen III (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer and teacher. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001, and is professor emeritus of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he taught for fifty-two years until his retirement in 2019. Biography A native of the Pacific Northwest, Lauridsen worked as a Forest Service firefighter and lookout on an isolated tower near Mount St. Helens. He attended Whitman College for 2 years, before traveling south to study composition at the University of Southern California with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen. He began teaching at USC in 1967. In 2006, Lauridsen was named an "American Choral Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007, he received the National Medal of Arts from the president in a White House ceremony, "for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Pennsylvania Law School Alumni
A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic monks. The University of Bologna (), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *being a high degree-awarding institute. *using the word (which was coined at its foundation). *having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees (with teaching conducted by both clergy and non-clergy): grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law and notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, , p. 55f.de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amherst College Alumni
Amherst may refer to: People * Amherst (surname) Amherst is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Baron Amherst (other), in particular: ** Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797), British army officer ** William Amherst (British Army officer) (1732–1781), y ..., including a list of people with the name * Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies, a title in the British Peerage; formerly ''Baron Amherst'' * Baron Amherst of Hackney of the City of London, a title in the British Peerage Places Australia *Amherst, Victoria Burma *Kyaikkami, Myanmar, formerly known as Amherst Canada *Amherst Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador *Middle Amherst Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador *Upper Amherst Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador *Amherst, Nova Scotia *Amherst Head, Nova Scotia *Amherst Internment Camp, Nova Scotia (1915–1919) *Amherst Point, Nova Scotia *Amherst Shore, Nova Scotia *East Amherst, Nova Scotia *West Amherst, Nova Scotia *Amherst Island, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
