George Crumb (Composer)
Cram, George (Crumb George, 1929) - a classic of American music. He was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and was known as a child prodigy, began composing music at a very young age. His professional music training began Cram University of Illinois, continued in Berlin, and on his return to the United States - the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1959. For a long time it remained a part of the university system of musical education in the country, earning a living teaching. He worked at a college in Virginia, the University of Colorado, and in 1965 permanently linked his fate with the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied composers such as Margaret Brouwer, Uri Caine, Jennifer Higdon, Gerald Levinson, J. Reese, and many others. Pulitzer Prize received Crum in 1968 for his work «Echoes of Time and the River», opened a string of awards and honorary titles that mark the entire career of the composer. His works from this time began to run all over the world, published the Peters Editions, recorded on phonograph Columbia. However, from teaching Cram finally abandoned only in 1997 - however, this did not prevent him from returning to the pedagogy of five years at the University of Arizona.
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