Name Richard Peaslee Role Composer | Education Yale University | |
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Nominations Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play Similar People Adrian Mitchell, Martha Clarke, Charles L Mee, Christopher Durang, Peter Brook | ||
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Richard Peaslee (June 13, 1930, New York NY - August 20, 2016) was a composer who worked in a variety of idioms, including chorus, orchestra, dance, and soundtracks for film and television, but he was most active as a composer for the theatre.
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- Richard peaslee nightsongs
- Education
- Works
- London
- New York City
- Dance
- Film and television
- Symphonic and jazz works
- Awards
- References
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Education
He received his undergraduate degree in Music Composition from Yale University, and after serving two years in the U.S. Army, received a master's degree from The Juilliard School, in addition to studying privately with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and William Russo in New York and London.
Works
He has written the music for:
London
New York City
Dance
Touch, commissioned and performed by the New York City Ballet
The Four Humours, commissioned and performed by the Pilobolus dance company
Film and television
His film scores include the Peter Brook films Marat/Sade (1967) and Tell Me Lies (1968). His music for television includes the Emmy-nominated score for Joseph Campbell/Bill Moyers series The Power of Myth, Claudia Shear’s Blown Sideways Through Life (American Playhouse), and Time/Life’s Wild, Wild World of Animals.
Symphonic and jazz works
Peaslee's works have been performed by the Philadelphia, Detroit, Seattle, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, and Buffalo Symphony Orchestras; William Russo's London Jazz Orchestra, Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Stan Kenton and Ted Heath Orchestras and Gerry Mulligan.
Arrows of Time for Solo Trombone and Band was composed in 2000 for Joseph Alessi and the United States Army Band.