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Christopher Rouse: An Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Laurie Shulman
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One of the brightest stars in contemporary music, the American Christopher Rouse remains comparatively little known in the UK. A Baltimore native who teaches at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, he had already served as composer-in-residence for two orchestras and his music was widely performed when his Trombone Concerto earned America's Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1993. Rouse has been particularly successful with orchestral works. He promises to be one of the next century's great composers in traditional forms, specifically symphony and concerto.

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Tempo , Issue 199 , January 1997 , pp. 2 - 8
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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References

1 Rouse, Christopher, William Schuman: Documentary (New York: G. Schirmer & Theodore Presser, 1980). This includes a list of works, discography and bibliographyGoogle Scholar.

2 Christopher Rouse, programme note for Symphony No.l (used by permission). Nevertheless, the score refers, more obliquely, to works by other composers mentioned, such as Sibelius's Fourth Symphony, Hartmann's Eighth and Pettersson's Seventh, as well as Shostakovich's D-S-C-H monogram.

3 Christopher Rouse, programme note for Symphony No.2 (used by permission).

4 Christopher Rouse, programme note for Flute Concerto (used by permission).