Arlene Zallman (9 September 193425 November 2006) was an American composer and

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Life

Zallman was born in

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and graduated from the

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. She received a master's degree from the

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, where she studied composition with

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and

George Crumb George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected the widespread modernist usage of serialism, developing a highly personal musical ...

. In 1959 she received a two-year

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, to study with

Luigi Dallapiccola Luigi Dallapiccola (February 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions. Biography Dallapiccola was born in Pisino d'Istria (at the time part of Austria-Hungary, current Pazin, Cr ...

. She held positions on the faculty of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and

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and then became a professor of composition at

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in 1976. She received the Marion S. Freschl Award for Vocal Composition, and awards from

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, the

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, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her ''Three Songs from Quasimodo'' won awards from both the

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and the

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. She held fellowships at the

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, where she received the Faye Barnaby Kent Fellow. During 2001-2, she was a Fellow at the

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for Advanced Study. In 2003 Zallman was a guest composer-in-residence at the Rocca di Mezzo Music Festival in the

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region of Italy. Zallman has two daughters. She died in her home in Wellesley in 2006 and was buried in

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Works

Zallman completed a number of compositions on commission, including ''The Trio'' in 1999. Her works are published by the Association for the Promotion of New Music and by C.F. Peters. Selected works include: *''A Whimsical Offering'' piano solo 7 min 1994 *''Analogy'' for solo flute 5 min 1971 *''And with Ah! Bright Wings'' (G. M. Hopkins) chorus (SATB) and organ 8 min 1986 *''Emerson Motets'' for chorus (SATB) 12 min 1985 *''Letters'' (Dickinson) for mezzo-soprano and viola 5 min 1996 *''Luoghi'' (Places) tenor 14 min 1998 *''Nightsongs I'' for violin and piano 4 min 1984 *''Racconto'' for piano 8 min 1968 *''Shakespeare Sonnet CXXVIII'' (How oft, when thou my music) for baritone and piano 4 min 1980 *''Shakespeare Sonnet XVIII'' (Shall I compare thee) for soprano and piano 3 min 1958 *''Shakespeare Sonnets XXXIII'' (Full many a morning) & XL (Take all my loves) baritone, 7 min 1979 *''Soliloquium'' solo violoncello 5 min 1986 *''Sonnet/Sonata'' (Shakespeare CII My love is strengthened) for soprano and piano 7 min 1991 *''The Cigarette Butt Blues'' (Pavese: Il blues delle cicche) for women’s voices, 7 min 1991 *''Three Preludes'' piano solo 5 min 1979 *''Three Songs from Quasimodo'' (Three Italian Songs) soprano, 6 min 1976 *''To a Hurdy-Gurdy'' (Corrazzini: Per organo di barberia) for soprano and violoncello 4 min 1975 *''Vox Faminae'' (Carmina burana) Song cycle for soprano and piano 23 min 2002

References

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