- Beth Anderson
Beth Anderson (born 3 January, 1950) is an American neo-romantic
composer . She studied withJohn Cage ,Terry Riley ,Robert Ashley , andLarry Austin , among others. She was born inLexington, Kentucky, USA and grew up inMt. Sterling, Kentucky . She studied at the University of Kentucky, UC Davis, New York University andMills College . [Hitchcock, H. Wiley and Stanley Sadie "The New Grove Dictionary of American Music". (New York: MacMillan, 1986) Vol. 1, p. 46]Anderson is best known for her swales, a musical form she invented based on collages and samples of newly composed music rather than existing music.
She is married to
Elliotte Rusty Harold .Quotes:
*"The idea that beauty is revolutionary is a revelation to me...I've discovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, can't add, can't work from verbalized concepts, but that does make melodies with pitch and rhythm...beauty is enough."
*"My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making."References
External links
* [http://users.rcn.com/beand/ Beth Anderson, Composer]
Listening
* [http://www.newmusicjukebox.org/composers/c_works.asp?ComposerID=18013&ActorID=37162 NewMusicJukeBox.org: Beth Anderson]
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