Healey, Derek: One Midsummer's Morning, 1997
Scope and Contents
Derek Healey was born in Wargrave, in the South of England; studied with Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music, London and with Boris Porena and Gofredo Petrassi in Italy. He has won prizes in the UK, Italy and the USA and has taught Theory, Composition and Ethnic Music at the Universities of Victoria, Toronto, Guelph and Oregon, finally becoming Academic Professor of Music at the RAF School of Music in Uxbridge, England. He has written works in most genres, having had some fifty works published in the UK, Canada and the USA. His earlier neo-classic style gave way to atonal and aleatoric influences in the 1960's, and from Healey's arrival in North America in 1969, ethnic music became increasingly important. Works for large ensembles have been played by many orchestras and wind ensembles, and the opera Seabird Island was the first contemporary opera to be taken on a cross-Canada tour. The works most often performed include the suite for orchestra: Arctic Images, and In Flanders' Fields and two sets of Canadian folk songs for choir. Healey's most recent extended work, 'A Mass for San Corrado', recently received its first performance in Noto Cathedral, Italy. Healey is now retired from teaching and spends his time with composition and research, living in the Cobble Hill district of Brooklyn, New York. Source: http://www.derekhealey.com/context.html
Dates
- 1997
Extent
From the Collection: 6.00 Linear Feet
Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers without restrictions.
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Gottschalk, Arthur (Gottschalk, Arthur William) (1952-) (Person)
- From the Collection: Anderson, Allen (Allen L.) (Person)
- From the Collection: Caldwell, James (1957-) (Person)
- From the Collection: Davis, Douglas (Person)
- From the Collection: Diemer, Emma Lou (Person)
- From the Collection: Fornuto, Donato D. (Person)
- From the Collection: Healey, Derek (1936-) (Person)
- From the Collection: Jex, David (Person)
- From the Collection: Kasparov, Andrey (1966-) (Person)
- From the Collection: Klein, Joseph (1962-) (Person)
- From the Collection: Lieuwen, Peter (Person)
- From the Collection: Macbride, David (Person)
- From the Collection: Newmark, Jonathan (Person)
- From the Collection: Snyder, Randall (Person)
- From the Collection: Sochinski, James Richard (1947-) (Person)
- From the Collection: Vanneschi, Luca (Person)
- From the Collection: Old Dominion University. Libraries. F. Ludwig Diehn Composers Room (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the ODU Diehn Composers Room Collection Repository
189 Diehn Fine & Performing Arts Center
1339 49th St.
Norfolk VA 23529 US
757-683-5350
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