Joan Tower
Composer
Playlists
All Videos (31)
- What I Do
- How I Composed Made in America
- My Music is...
- Instruments I Play
- My Process of Composing
- Great Part
- Winning 3 Grammy Awards
- Career Highlights
- Challenges
- Education
- Favorite Subjects
- Musical Influences
- Jazz influences
- Goals
- Helpful Teachers
- When I Knew I Was a Composer
- Debuting a Composition
- First Composition
- Skills From Childhood
- Musical Selections to Develop a Critical Ear
- Family Support
- How Does a Commission Work
- Writing for Orchestra
- Time is the Most Crucial Element
- Action and Reaction
- Color in Music
- How Do You Determine the Length
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Advice
- Did it Anyway
- I Love Rebels
Bio
Watch Joan Tower, Ph.D., a three time Grammy Award winning composer of “Made in America”, share her illustrious fifty year career as a composer, conductor, musician and educator. Some of her other important works include “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman”, “Rhapsody in Purple”, “Sequoia” and “Silver Ladders”. We learn about time, contrast and color as vital elements in composition and she explains how composing music is similar to how an architect designs a building. She also reveals her admiration for the rebels amongst us.
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