Fact Sheet: 

Composer: David Edgar Walther (Legal name: Walter)
Phone Number: (617) 325-7745
Address: 126 Newburg Street, Roslindale, MA 02131
Website: davidedgarwalther.com



Title: Cloud Blue
Instrumentation: for string orchestra (incidental solos for vln. vla. & Vc. D.B without C extension detunes to Eb at the end
Timing of Recording: 5 minutes and 48 seconds.
Written in 1972; Unperformed
Composer's DOB: February 2, 1953



Program notes: Cloud Blue is a depiction of the clouds featured in the back ground of Renaissance paintings. It was written in 1972, when I was studying with Vincent Persichetti in my first year at Juilliard. The next year (1973) The Juilliard Concert String Orchestra performed the piece under Thomas Ludwig. 














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Résumé:

Education: B. A. 1975 composition; Juilliard. (Honorary scholarship, 1974.)  M. A. voice, 1979; Trenton State Teachers' College. Ph. D. work: Boston University (teaching fellow). Postgraduate: New England/Boston Conservatory (opera; scholarship). Composition Teachers: Persichetti, Diamond, Luening, del Tredici... et al. Voice Teachers: Oren Brown, Jerome Hines, Jeffrey Gall... et al. 

Performances of Compositions: NYC: St. John The Divine. Juilliard Orchestras (2 readings), OutLook Film & Video. Resurrection. Boston: Boston Metro Opera. Copley Square Ballet. M.I.T. Concert Band. King’s Chapel. Mobius. Marblehead Ballet. Old South. Trinity. Other: Kinetic Dance Theater of Moscow. Opera on Tap Vienna. Hometown USA Film & Video: honorable mention. Invocation for Organ, commissioned by the American Guild of Organists, E. C. Schirmer, publisher.

Recent Events: 2/10/24 - Gigue for Clavichord (premiere), 7/3/24 - Bleu Morphos for guitar (premiere), 15 minutes of Fame. 2022 - Rain (premiere) & 2023 - Cal'mus, Wien, Austria. 2017- Six Blake Songs, Cologne, Germany. 2015 - Swallow and Prince, Grant: Town of Dedham, MA. 2012 - Hamlet; commission: Boston Metro Opera. 2012 - Fire Chant commission: Non-Verbal Sacred Chants. 2011 - Birthday on the Moon, second place: Long Leaf Opera. 2010 - Antigon Main Stage: Boston Metro Opera. 2010 - Edward II: grant: Daniel B. Kelly. 2010 - Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director's Prize: Longfellow Chorus.

Artistic Director/Composer in Residence: Music Now (AD); Prime Time For Kids, Masasoit College, (AD/ CR); Putnam Court Musicians (CR); Acting Singers Project, Inc. (current & founding AD) Website: actingsingersproject.com