Alice Shields

Alice Shields

Alice Shields (born Alice F. Shields, Manhattan, New York, February 18, 1943) is an American composer. She is a "respected electronic composer" ["America's Women Composers: Up from the Footnotes". Author(s): Jeannie G. Pool. Source: "Music Educators Journal", Vol. 65, No. 5, (Jan., 1979), pp. 28-41. Published by: MENC: The National Association for Music Education. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3395571. Accessed: 27/06/2008 16:44.] particularly known for her work in opera.

She is also trained as an opera singer, and since the 1990s has acquired skill as a performer of "nattuvangam", a form of South Indian rhythmic recitation used to accompany "bharatanatyam" dance.

Shields earned a D.M.A. degree from Columbia University, where she worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and studied composition with Jack Beeson and Vladimir Ussachevsky.

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* [http://aliceshields.com/ Alice Shields official site]
* [http://www.amc.net/member/alice_shields/home.html Alice Shields page] from American Music Center site
* [http://www.albanyrecords.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AR&Product_Code=TROY699&Category_Code=a-NR Alice Shields page] from Albany Records site


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