Eleanor Cory

Eleanor Cory

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Teachers M. Kupferman, C. Wuorinen, Chou Wen-Chung and Bulent Arel; DMA Columbia. Teaching Yale, CUNY, Manhattan School of Music. Pres. ACA. NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, Hilles grants. ACA recording award. 1st Prize, Tapestries, Hollybush International Competition. 1st Prize Music in the Mountains Orchestral Competition. Recorded CRI, OPUS ONE, Advance.

Bouquet

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Visions

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Canyons

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: chamber orchestra, Premiered Princeton, NJ; also performed Music in the Mountains, August, 1993.

Northwest Passages

Year: 1993

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Hemispheres

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Premiered 1989, Greenwich House, NYC, M. Neumann, vc; E. Rodgers, pn. ACA.

Crystals

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Manhattan School of Music, NYC, 1989, E. Rodgers,pn.

String Quartet

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Premiered 1988. Boston Univ Conc Hall, Alea III, T. Street, vn, J. Hemenway, vn, S. Woolweaver, va, M. Simcox, vc, T. Antoniou, cond. ACA.

Of Mere Being

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: text by Wallace Stevens; Premiered 1987, Eastman Chorale and Brass Quintet, D. Neuen, cond.

Phases

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: Phantom Press

Description: premiered by 1987, NACUSA, Christ & St. Stephens, NYC, M. McCartney, guit.

Encounters

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1986, Chamber Music Conf and composers Forum of the East, Bennington, VT, Eleanor Cory, conductor.

Profiles

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: Phantom Press

Description: Premiered 1984, Carnegie Recital Hall, M. Kupferman, cl, D. Moore, vc, K. Hayami, pn.

Tapestry

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 20'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered New Jersey Symphony, 1987, H. Wolf, cond. 1st Prize Hollybush International Composition Competition.

Ehre

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: premiered by 1989, Greenwich House, NYC, Fulkerson, vn, all Cory concert.

Surroundings

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: APNM/Music Publishing Service

Description: Premiered 1982, Beverly Morgan, mez, The Composers Guild; texts: Mark Strand, Rachel Hadas, W.S. Merwin.

Designs

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Premiered Arioso Trio, 1979, Carnegie Recital Hall. APNM/Music Publishing Service

Suite A La Brecque

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Rebecca La Brecque,pn, 11/9/79, Carnegie Recital Hall.

Counterbrass

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: APNM/Music Publishing Service

Description: Premiered 1979, The Ensemble, H. Sollberger, cond, 1979, League ISCM Concerts, Carnegie Recital Hall. 1979, Houston. Publisher's tel: 212-243-5233 FAX: 212- 675-1630.

Trio For Flute Oboe And Piano

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered New England Chamber Trio, 1978, Carnegie Recital Hall.

Aria Viva

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1978, Gregg Smith Singers; text: David Ignatow.

Octagons

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: The Composers Ensemble, P. Lieberson, conductor.

Waking

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered The Light Fantastic Players, D. Shulman, cond, 1975, League ISCM Concerts, Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC.

Trio For Clarinet (Bass Clarinet), Cello And Piano

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1974, Composers Forum, M. Sussman, cl, H. Harbison, vc, U. Oppens, pn.

Epithalamium For Solo Flute

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: premiered by 1974, s Forum, 1974, P. Spencer, fl. APNM/Music Publishing Service

Modulations

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1972 members of Light Fantastic Players, E. Cory, cond.

Septet

Year: 1971

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1971, Columbia Composers, E. Cory, cond.

Tempi

Year: 1971

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: cl, tape

Combinations

Year: 1970

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 197, Composers Forum, U. Oppens,pn.

Concertino

Year: 1970

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1970, Composers Forum, New England Conservatory, E. Cory, pn, T. Putzdai, cond.

Trio For Violin, Bass Clarinet And Piano

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Instruments: piano

Description: Premiered The Light Fantastic Players, D. Shulman, cond, 1975, League ISCM Concerts, Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC.

Liebeslied

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1974, Composers Forum, J. Steele, mez; text: Rainer Maria Rilke.

Quartet For Oboe, Trumpet, Cello And Vibraphone

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Words

Year: 1967

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Klangfarben Three For Six

Year: 1965

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1965, Sarah Lawrence College.

Adagio Quartetto

Year: 1964

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1964, Student Composers Conference, Baltimore, MD.

Agnus Dei And Libera Me

Year: 1964

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

BIOGRAPHY
Teachers M. Kupferman, C. Wuorinen, Chou Wen-Chung and Bulent Arel; DMA Columbia. Teaching Yale, CUNY, Manhattan School of Music. Pres. ACA. NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, Hilles grants. ACA recording award. 1st Prize, Tapestries, Hollybush International Competition. 1st Prize Music in the Mountains Orchestral Competition. Recorded CRI, OPUS ONE, Advance.
COMPOSITIONS

Bouquet

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Visions

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Canyons

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: chamber orchestra, Premiered Princeton, NJ; also performed Music in the Mountains, August, 1993.

Northwest Passages

Year: 1993

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Hemispheres

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Premiered 1989, Greenwich House, NYC, M. Neumann, vc; E. Rodgers, pn. ACA.

Crystals

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Manhattan School of Music, NYC, 1989, E. Rodgers,pn.

String Quartet

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Premiered 1988. Boston Univ Conc Hall, Alea III, T. Street, vn, J. Hemenway, vn, S. Woolweaver, va, M. Simcox, vc, T. Antoniou, cond. ACA.

Of Mere Being

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: text by Wallace Stevens; Premiered 1987, Eastman Chorale and Brass Quintet, D. Neuen, cond.

Phases

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: Phantom Press

Description: premiered by 1987, NACUSA, Christ & St. Stephens, NYC, M. McCartney, guit.

Encounters

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1986, Chamber Music Conf and composers Forum of the East, Bennington, VT, Eleanor Cory, conductor.

Profiles

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: Phantom Press

Description: Premiered 1984, Carnegie Recital Hall, M. Kupferman, cl, D. Moore, vc, K. Hayami, pn.

Tapestry

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 20'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered New Jersey Symphony, 1987, H. Wolf, cond. 1st Prize Hollybush International Composition Competition.

Ehre

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: premiered by 1989, Greenwich House, NYC, Fulkerson, vn, all Cory concert.

Surroundings

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: APNM/Music Publishing Service

Description: Premiered 1982, Beverly Morgan, mez, The Composers Guild; texts: Mark Strand, Rachel Hadas, W.S. Merwin.

Designs

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: Premiered Arioso Trio, 1979, Carnegie Recital Hall. APNM/Music Publishing Service

Suite A La Brecque

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered Rebecca La Brecque,pn, 11/9/79, Carnegie Recital Hall.

Counterbrass

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: APNM/Music Publishing Service

Description: Premiered 1979, The Ensemble, H. Sollberger, cond, 1979, League ISCM Concerts, Carnegie Recital Hall. 1979, Houston. Publisher's tel: 212-243-5233 FAX: 212- 675-1630.

Trio For Flute Oboe And Piano

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered New England Chamber Trio, 1978, Carnegie Recital Hall.

Aria Viva

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1978, Gregg Smith Singers; text: David Ignatow.

Octagons

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: The Composers Ensemble, P. Lieberson, conductor.

Waking

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered The Light Fantastic Players, D. Shulman, cond, 1975, League ISCM Concerts, Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC.

Trio For Clarinet (Bass Clarinet), Cello And Piano

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1974, Composers Forum, M. Sussman, cl, H. Harbison, vc, U. Oppens, pn.

Epithalamium For Solo Flute

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: premiered by 1974, s Forum, 1974, P. Spencer, fl. APNM/Music Publishing Service

Modulations

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1972 members of Light Fantastic Players, E. Cory, cond.

Septet

Year: 1971

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1971, Columbia Composers, E. Cory, cond.

Tempi

Year: 1971

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Description: cl, tape

Combinations

Year: 1970

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 197, Composers Forum, U. Oppens,pn.

Concertino

Year: 1970

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1970, Composers Forum, New England Conservatory, E. Cory, pn, T. Putzdai, cond.

Trio For Violin, Bass Clarinet And Piano

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Instruments: piano

Description: Premiered The Light Fantastic Players, D. Shulman, cond, 1975, League ISCM Concerts, Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC.

Liebeslied

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1974, Composers Forum, J. Steele, mez; text: Rainer Maria Rilke.

Quartet For Oboe, Trumpet, Cello And Vibraphone

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Words

Year: 1967

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Klangfarben Three For Six

Year: 1965

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1965, Sarah Lawrence College.

Adagio Quartetto

Year: 1964

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

Description: Premiered 1964, Student Composers Conference, Baltimore, MD.

Agnus Dei And Libera Me

Year: 1964

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Publisher: American Composers Alliance

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