Austin Clarkson

Biographic Data

ID1378985
NAMEAustin Clarkson
GIVEN NAMESAustin
FAMILY NAMEClarkson
SIGNATURECLARKSON A
AFFILIATIONSAustin Clarkson(educator), 29 Lorraine Gardens, Toronto, Ontario M9B 4Z5, Canada.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX0

  • Wolpe, Varèse and the Busoni Effect

    Austin ClarksonARTICLEContemporary Music Review2008

    Busoni was the progenitor of a stream of modernism notably absent from the master narrative of twentieth-century music. Varèse and Wolpe, who were among his most important disciples, became mentors to many leading composers, especially in America. A comparison of their early careers, their contacts with Busoni, and their responses to the visual arts leads to a discussion of their association with the New York School of abstract expressionists and…

  • Olga Okuniewska Wolpe, 1902 – 1985

    Austin ClarksonARTICLEContemporary Music Review2008

  • Ralph Shapey's Apprenticeship with Stefan Wolpe

    Austin ClarksonARTICLEContemporary Music Review2008

    Shapey studied with Stefan Wolpe from 1939 to 1942 at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia and again from 1946 to 1949 in New York. He was Wolpe's assistant at the Contemporary Music School from 1948 to 1950 and became a leading exponent of his music during the ensuing decades. Wolpe in turn regarded Shapey as the most brilliant and accomplished of his students. After Shapey's studies with Wolpe ended, they enjoyed a fruitful collaboration…

  • Zeus und Elida

    Austin Clarkson, Hyesu ShinARTICLEContemporary Music Review2008

    Wolpe's one-act buffa Zeus und Elida was one of three theatrical works composed between 1927 and 1929. Wolpe was influenced by the twelve-tone practices of Josef Matthias Hauer and Arnold Schoenberg, the Bauhaus theater of Oskar Schlemmer, the anarchic iconoclasm of Dada, the jazz music of the 1920s, and especially Ferruccio Busoni's Arlecchino and his aesthetic of opera. An essay on film music that Wolpe published in 1926 provides a link between…

  • What is Jewish Music

    Austin ClarksonARTICLEContemporary Music Review2008

  • A Note on ' …zwei Gefühle…', Musik mit Leonardo

    Austin ClarksonARTICLEContemporary Music Review2005

    This article focuses on a possible link between Ferruccio Busoni and Helmut Lachenmann, composers born nearly three-quarters of a century apart. The centrepiece of the comparison is Lachenmann's composition '... zwei Gefühle...', Musik mit Leonardo, which was presented in Toronto in 2003, an occasion for which a different version of this text was initially written

  • David Tudor's Apprenticeship

    Austin ClarksonARTICLELeonardo Music Journal2004

    David Tudor's genius was evident from early childhood, but it was not until 1944, when he became a piano student of Irma Wolpe and a composition student of Stefan Wolpe, that Tudor began to realize his true potential. The Wolpes prepared Tudor for his extraordinary career as a path-breaking piano virtuoso and champion of the avant-garde. Tudor's years with the Wolpes culminated in the premiere of Battle Piece in 1950, Tudor's edition of which doc…

  • Positively Modern

    Arnold Whittall, Austin Clarkson et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times2004

  • Rochberg, (Aaron) George

    Austin Clarkson, Steven Johnson et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Wolpe, Stefan

    Austin ClarksonCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Layton, Billy Jim

    Austin Clarkson, Steven JohnsonCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Form IV

    Austin Clarkson, Stefan Wolpe et al.ARTICLEAmerican Music1989

  • Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra

    Austin Clarkson, George Rochberg et al.ARTICLEAmerican Music1989