Joseph Fennimore - Knowledge

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composer, at first interspersed composing with other musical activities ranging from performing as concert and recital soloist (encouraged by Bedford Pace III, director of public relations in North America for the British Tourist Authority) in America, Japan and Europe, to assistant conducting on

31: 298:) remain loyally romantic. Beyond a nostalgic or "bittersweet" lyricism often commented on, an additional distinguishing component of Fennimore's style is an elevated wittiness and "seriously playful sport" exemplified by his satiric take on language instruction, the aforementioned 290:, evoking Chinese and Middle Eastern idioms respectively, similarly expand on it in a "continual metamorphosis" of his style. At the same time, his reworkings of Schumann's A-minor sonata for violin and piano and Tchaikovsky's second piano concerto (premiered in 1986 by the 146:'s experimental accelerated program in Rochester, New York, during which the first year of his baccalaureate was completed over the summer months before and after his senior year in high school. The first summer he studied piano with guest teacher 135:. He began formal music studies in upstate New York at the Schenectady Conservatory of Music, his principal teacher being its founder and director, Joseph G. Derrick, graduate of the New England Conservatory in the piano class of Ethel Newcomb, 171:(Watson's mother, Jessie Maud Keeler Lasell, had been Thomson's own patron), who urged him to move to New York City. Upon graduating from Eastman that year with a B.M. degree with distinction and a performer's certificate, Fennimore entered the 1892: 200:

music director and arranger Buster Davis, writing music criticism pseudonymously and co-founding, with Gordon Hibberd, and directing (1972–76) the Hear America First concert series that was broadcast nationally on

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awards. In 2013 Fennimore received a citation from the New York State Music Teachers Association recognizing his "outstanding contributions as a performer, master teacher, coach and world-renowned composer."

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Fennimore's music, especially that featuring the keyboard, is often of a technical sophistication and chromatic complexity that stretch the Western tonal tradition it rises from; such exotica as

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in Albany, New York. Since the early 1970s he has devoted his energies more exclusively to his compositional efforts, new works introduced and often performed by mezzo-soprano

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and pianists Larry Graham, Dennis Helmrich, Jeffrey Middleton, Dan Teitler, Marthanne Verbit and Juana Zayas. Fennimore currently teaches private piano lessons at

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Representative performances or recordings are attested by: (for Castle) Allen Hughes (21 May 1971), "Joseph Fennimore Makes Song Cycle of Berlitz Method,"

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Among Fennimore's citations are the Loeb Memorial Award and Van Cliburn Award (both from Juilliard for post-graduate study); the Hour of Music Award from

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as "one of this country's finest composers." His music has been performed and broadcast worldwide and included in the Metropolitan Opera Studio and

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Long maintaining one home in Manhattan and another in upstate New York, Fennimore and Gordon Hibberd were among the first tenants at the landmark

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etc., Albany Records TROY 065; (for Comparone) Allan Kozinn (3 June 2003), "Music Review: Some Sugar Diluted by a Tonic of Bach,"

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would be dedicated) to become Fennimore's patron; in 1962 she arranged Fennimore's visit to and audition for composer and critic

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Genhart arranged summer piano studies for Fennimore with retired Eastman faculty member Sandor Vas; Vas enlisted

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Kyrie, Gloria, Alleluia, Sanctus and Benedictus, Eucharistic Acclamations, Agnus Dei 1, Agnus Dei 2, Amen

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