Karen Anne Tarlow (born September 19, 1947) is an American composer and music educator who has composed multi-media pieces and many choral works based on Hebrew texts.
Tarlow was born in
Brookline
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, Massachusetts. She received a BM and MM from the
University of Massachusetts
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, and a DMA from
Boston University
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. She received a Howard Lebow Memorial Scholarship in 1972 and studied in Germany at the
University of Freiburg
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. In 1978 she won first prize in the Boston University Composition Competition. Her teachers included
Philip Bezanson,
Wolfgang Fortner
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Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense ...
,
Charles Fussell
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,
Malcolm Peyton
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Peyton was born in New York City on January 12, 1932. He grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and rece ...
,
Gardner Read
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His first musical studies were in piano and organ, and he also took lessons in coun ...
,
Robert Stern,
Frederick Tillis and
David del Tredici.
Tarlow married John Montanari in 1985. She is a retired assistant professor of music theory from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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. She belongs to the
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
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(ASCAP), and has received commissions from Da Camera Singers, the
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
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, the Hampshire Young People's Chorus, and the Picture Book Theatre.
Tarlow's compositions are included on several commercial recordings by Navona Records. Her music is published by ECS Publishing Group, New Valley Press,
Subito Music/Seesaw Press, and Treble Clef Music Press.
Her works include:
Chamber
*''Games for Three'' (oboe, viola and piano)
*''Three Household Miniatures'' (clarinet and bassoon)
*''Uchronia'' (harp)
*''Woodwind Quinte''t
*''Zenana'' (violin and piano)
Multi-media
*''Chansons Inoocentes''
*''Concerto for Orchestra''
*''Emperor and the Nightingale
''
*''Uncle Wiggily and the Duck Pond
''
Orchestra
*Bachanale
*Kavanah (Remembrance)
Vocal
*''Ahavat Olam'' (With Everlasting Love; two voices and piano)
*''Fields of Sorrow (''women's chorus, flute, harp or piano)
*''Five Yiddish Poems'' (a cappella choir)
*''Hin'ni'' (Behold, I am Prepared; two voices and piano)
*"Horeini Adonai" (Teach Me Your Way, O Lord; voice and piano)
*''Lieblingstier'' (three voices, four woodwinds and cello)
*''Lowest Trees Have Tops'' (two voice and chamber ensemble)
*''Renascence'' (soprano, clarinet and piano)
*''Salvacion de la Primavera'' (women's chorus)
*"Shalom Rav" (Grant Lasting Peace; voice and piano)
*"Two Songs" (voice and piano)
*"Ush'mor Tseiteinu" (Guard Our Going Out; voice and piano)
*''Yihyu I'ratzon'' (Let the Words of My Mouth; two voices and piano)
*"Yism'chu" (Let the Heavens be Glad; voice and piano)
References
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American women composers
American composers
1947 births
ASCAP composers and authors
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Living people
21st-century American women