Valerie Samson

Valerie Samson
Biografia
Naixement	16 octubre 1948 (75 anys); Saint Louis (Missouri)
Activitat
Ocupació	compositora, etnomusicòloga

Valerie Brooks Samson (St. Louis (Missouri),^[1] 16 d'octubre de 1948) és una compositora, etnomusicóloga i intèrpret nord-americana amb un interès especial per la Xina. Toca el violí xinès, el sheng (orgue de boca de bambú) i diversos altres instruments xinesos.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Biografia

Samson va obtenir un B.A. de la Universitat de Boston, un M.A. per la Universitat de Califòrnia (Berkeley) i un doctorat. a la Universitat de Califòrnia (Los Angeles); UCLA).^[5] La seva tesi es titulava: The Modern Chamber Concerto as Genre: György Ligeti's Chamber Concerto (1969-1970) And Chamber Concerto (Original Composition).^[6] Entre els seus professors hi havia Andrew Imbrie, Hugo Norden, Olly Wilson i Betty Wong.^[7]

De 1969 a 1970, Samson va ser una programadora i locutora de ràdio a l'estació WTBS de Cambridge, Massachusetts. De 1971 a 1972, va ser la directora musical de la "Picchi Youth Orchestra" a Oakland, Califòrnia.^[8] Durant la dècada de 1970, Samson va començar a tocar el zhonghu (violín de 2 cordes) amb el "Flowing Spring Ensemble" de Betty Wong i amb l'Associació de Música Instrumental Xinesa de Lawrence Lui. Va actuar amb hichiriki (petit oboè) amb el "Gagaku Ensemble" de Suenobu Togi a UCLA.^[3] El 1977, Samson es va convertir en editora de la revista "Ear Magazine", una publicació bimensual a la costa oest.^[9]

El 1985, Samson va rebre el premi John Lennon per a estudiants de postgrau en música. Aquest premi va finançar el seu vídeo documental sobre sheng.^[10] Va estudiar el desenvolupament de l'erhu com a participant del Programa Nacional d'Investigació i Estudis Avançats a la Xina de 1988-89.^[11]

Samson pertany a l'Associació per a la Investigació de la Música Xinesa (ACMR), Chinoperl (Literatura Oral i Interpretativa Xinesa), l'Aliança Internacional per a les Dones en la Música, la Societat per a la Música Asiàtica i la Societat per a Etnomusicologia. A la UCLA, va impartir classes de música xinesa. Investiga el paper canviant dels instruments hugin tradicionals en la pràctica d'interpretació actual.^[3] Les seves publicacions inclouen:

Música de cambra

Blue Territory I (violí, piano)^[2]
Duet (dos oboès)^[8]
Experimental Shorts (violí, piano)^[2]
Mousterian Meander (flauta dolça, violoncel, piano)^[2]
Quartet (flauta, clarinet, viola, cello)^[12]
String Trio^[13]

Orquestra

Encounter^[8]
Night Visits^[2]

Multimedia

Montage: A Journey Through Youth (three sopranos, piano, dancer, lights)^[2]

Piano

Winter Dances (prepared piano)^[2]

Prosa

ACMR Reports^[3]
“Interview with Douglas Leedy” (Ear magazine, vol. 4 no. 4, April 1976.)^[14]
“Interview with Stuart Dempster” (The Composer 1978)The Composer. Composers' Autograph Publications. 1978. p. 28.
“Music as protest strategy: The example of Tiananmen Square, 1989”, Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology 6 (1991) 35–64^[15]

Video

Sheng: Bamboo Mouth Organs^[16]

Referències

↑ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers: a handbook. Metuchen London: the Scarecrow press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-8108-1138-6.
↑ ^2,0 ^2,1 ^2,2 ^2,3 ^2,4 ^2,5 ^2,6 Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers. 2: Sai - Zyb, Appendices (2. ed., revised and enl ed.). New York: Books & Music. p. 612. ISBN 978-0-9617485-1-7.
↑ ^3,0 ^3,1 ^3,2 ^3,3 "Other Musicians". Melody of China. 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
↑ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers: A checklist of works for the solo voice. A reference publication in women's studies. Boston, Mass: Hall. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.
↑ Shirai, Noboru (2001). Tule Lake: An Issei Memoir. Muteki Press. ISBN 978-0-9716108-0-4.
↑ Samson, Valerie Brooks (2000). The Modern Chamber Concerto as Genre: György Ligeti's Chamber Concerto (1969-1970) And, Chamber Concerto (with Original Composition). University Microfilms Incorporated.
↑ Pfitzinger, Scott (2017-03-01). Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 471. ISBN 978-1-4422-7225-5.
↑ ^8,0 ^8,1 ^8,2 Anderson, Ruth; Anderson, E. Ruth (1976). Contemporary American composers: a biographical dictionary. Boston, Mass: Hall. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-8161-1117-6.
↑ Ear Magazine. New Wilderness Foundation. 1977.
↑ Archives, L. A. Times (1985-12-19). "Graduate Student Gets Grant". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
↑ China Exchange News. Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China. 1986.
↑ Boenke, H. Alais. Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog (en anglès). Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 1988-10-19. ISBN 978-0-313-36831-8.
↑ International League of Women Composers Newsletter (en anglès). The League, 1986.
↑ Cum Notis Variorum: The Newsletter of the Music Library, University of California, Berkeley. The Library. 1989. p. 19.
↑ rilm (2021-10-14). "The Philippine drug war, a hip-hop response, and an annotated bibliography on music and protest". Bibliolore. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
↑ China Exchange News. Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China. 1986.

[1] Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers: a handbook. Metuchen London: the Scarecrow press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-8108-1138-6.

[Valeri,_1-2] 2,0 ^2,1 ^2,2 ^2,3 ^2,4 ^2,5 ^2,6 Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers. 2: Sai - Zyb, Appendices (2. ed., revised and enl ed.). New York: Books & Music. p. 612. ISBN 978-0-9617485-1-7.

[Valeri,_2-3] 3,0 ^3,1 ^3,2 ^3,3 "Other Musicians". Melody of China. 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2023-08-13.

[4] Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers: A checklist of works for the solo voice. A reference publication in women's studies. Boston, Mass: Hall. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.

[5] Shirai, Noboru (2001). Tule Lake: An Issei Memoir. Muteki Press. ISBN 978-0-9716108-0-4.

[6] Samson, Valerie Brooks (2000). The Modern Chamber Concerto as Genre: György Ligeti's Chamber Concerto (1969-1970) And, Chamber Concerto (with Original Composition). University Microfilms Incorporated.

[7] Pfitzinger, Scott (2017-03-01). Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 471. ISBN 978-1-4422-7225-5.

[Valeri,_8-8] 8,0 ^8,1 ^8,2 Anderson, Ruth; Anderson, E. Ruth (1976). Contemporary American composers: a biographical dictionary. Boston, Mass: Hall. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-8161-1117-6.

[9] Ear Magazine. New Wilderness Foundation. 1977.

[10] Archives, L. A. Times (1985-12-19). "Graduate Student Gets Grant". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-08-13.

[11] China Exchange News. Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China. 1986.

[12] Boenke, H. Alais. Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog (en anglès). Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 1988-10-19. ISBN 978-0-313-36831-8.

[13] International League of Women Composers Newsletter (en anglès). The League, 1986.

[14] Cum Notis Variorum: The Newsletter of the Music Library, University of California, Berkeley. The Library. 1989. p. 19.

[15] rilm (2021-10-14). "The Philippine drug war, a hip-hop response, and an annotated bibliography on music and protest". Bibliolore. Retrieved 2023-08-13.

[16] China Exchange News. Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China. 1986.

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