William Bolcom
William Bolcom
William Elden Bolcomis an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth26 May 1938
CountryUnited States of America
aspect music opera question setting trouble worth
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.
And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
born die high man stands till
E-v-e-r-e-t-t stands for Everett High / I am an Everett man born / An Everett man till I die ...
hard party seemed sit work
It was always hard getting him to sit still to work. He was a real party boy. We seemed to work better long distance.
firsts pages knows
Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
fall littles would-be
I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.
retrospect process composing
I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.
nice book play
There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.