Paul Schuyler Phillips (born April 28, 1956) is an American

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and music scholar. He is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies, and Professor of Music at

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, where he directs the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Philharmonia, and Stanford Summer Symphony. He has written on

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and

Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his Utopian and dystopian fiction, dy ...

Conducting

In 1982 Phillips became Michael Gielen’s conducting assistant at the

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, and was appointed 1st Kapellmeister and Chorus Director at Stadttheater Lüneburg the following year. Following positions at the Greensboro Symphony, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, and the Savannah Symphony, in 1989 Phillips became Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music at

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concurrent with an appointment as Associate Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic. In 1994 he was named Music Director and Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony & Chorus. In 2017 Phillips became Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford.

Music scholarship

Phillips is the editor of ''The Devil Prefers Mozart: On Music and Musicians, 1962-1993'' by

and author of ''A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess'', which examines the relationship between Burgess's music and his writings. Phillips has written an encyclopedia entry on Burgess and several articles on the composer. In 1999 Phillips was featured as a performer and commentator on Anthony Burgess's music in the

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television documentary ''The Burgess Variations,'' directed by David Thompson.

Composition

Concert works

''Sweet Thunder'' 2 pianos 2023
''Brass Knuckles'' rch 2016
''Wave'' rch 2014
''Battle-Pieces'' ( Melville) & piano; also B & orchestra 2011
''War Music'' Suite ( Logue) TB soli & orchestra 2009
''A/B:'' A 90th Birthday Celebration of Anthony Burgess (Phillips) ctor & chamber ensemble 2007
''Invocation'' (

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) , fl, pf 2004
''Black Notes and White'' rass, perc, org 2001
''Three Burgess Lyrics'' ( Burgess) ATB chorus, vln, pf 1999
''Celestial Harmonies'' allet for string orch 1997
''Brownian Motion'' rch 1995
''Come On Out and Play'' (

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) inger-narrator & orch 1996 (based on a story by singer/songwriter Bill Harley)
''Miracle Songs'' (various) & piano 1987

Stage works

''War Music'' (

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), 2005, rev. 2006 * 90-minute music theatre piece based on Logue's adaptation of

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. Commissioned by the RI-based performance ensemble Aurea; premiered September 2005 at the FirstWorksProv Festival in

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; revived 2006 at the

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and 2007 at the New York Festival of the Humanities. ''Mann ist Mann'' (

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), 1984
''Dorothees Abenteuer im Lande des Zauberers von Ooz'' orothy's Adventures in the Land of the Wizard of Oz(

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), 1983
''Pericles'' (

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), 1978

Opera

''Weedpatch'' 2018 * Libretto by Bill Harley. Commissioned by North Cambridge Family Opera.

References

External links

Faculty: Paul Phillips
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