6 degrees of separation: Here are some of my teachers, with of their teachers and some of their students. Does the music of Luigi Cherubini somehow remind one of that of Vincent Persichetti? Does the music of Franz Joseph Haydn somehow foreshadow that of Joyce Mekeel? Other than Phil Lesh does anyone else on this list have anything at all to do with "The Grateful Dead?" Some of these connections make a lot of sense, and others are absurd.I hope you find these as interesting as I do. |
Dr. Marilyn Keiser: My first composition teacher: from ages 12-15 I studied one year each of private: harmony, counterpoint and composition with Professor Keiser. At the time she was the assistant organist at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, under under Alec Wyton, who performed my unison Mass, written on my 12th birthday. Professor Keiser taught for many years at The University of Michigan and, according to Steven Elger in The Diapasan, she is "one of our country's foremost concert organists."
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Dr. John Moriarty is a great teacher, accompanist, coach and director. He taught me more than he will ever know about about opera. He is the artistic director emeritis of Central City Opera, and was the chairman of the Opera Department of New England Conservatory; running a program with Boston Conservatory which I attended. He studied piano with Carlo Zecchi (who studied piano with Busoni and Arthur Schnabel) and French vocal literature with Pierre Bernac.
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