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Allen Shearer was born on 5 October, 1943 in United States, is an American composer and baritone (born 1943). Discover Allen Shearer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?
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With his first wife, pianist Barbara Shearer (1936–2005), Shearer's performances included art songs, some of which were his own.
Allen Raymond Shearer (born October 5, 1943 in Seattle, Washington) is an American composer and baritone.
Shearer’s early musical experiences were as a singer; the majority of his works are for the voice or voices, with a later emphasis on opera.
He studied at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1972, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria where he received diplomas in concert singing and opera.
He taught voice in Special Programs at the University of California at Berkeley.
He has received awards in music, including the Rome Prize Fellowship, the Aaron Copland Award, the Sylvia Goldstein Award, a Charles Ives Scholarship, residencies at the MacDowell Colony, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Goddess (1997), opera in four acts on a libretto by the composer after the screenplay by Satyajit Ray
Forest Scene (2024) for unaccompanied violin
Nocturne (2023) for nine cellos
Wink for wind ensemble (2023)
Duo (2022) for violin and cello
Impossible Marriage (2022) for clarinet, violin and piano
Eastbound Traveler (2021) for mixed quartet
The Dawn Makers (2008), chamber opera in one act on a libretto by Claudia Stevens
When asked about his musical style in the discussion preceding the 2009 premiere of his opera The Dawn Makers, Shearer answered that it varies according to the demands of the medium.
Critics also describe it variously.
The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music observes that Shearer’s music, "though it recalls postwar serialism in its rhythms and textures, relies on traditional counterpoint and on tonal centers."
Its lyric quality is frequently cited: Jeff Rosenfeld, reviewing Shearer’s Outbound Passenger, found the music "tuneful and harmonious;" and of Shearer’s cantata King Midas, critic Robert Commanday wrote, ‘The singing lines are fluid and supple, animated, alive; the harmony and scoring for a quintet of instruments and percussion battery (two players), rich but delicately so." In the British periodical Opera, Allan Ulrich wrote that the score of Shearer’s chamber opera The Dawn Makers has "genuine personality.
The hour-long opera abounds in extended ariosos and bravura outbursts and unfurls in a conservative idiom, spiced with dissonances which neatly evade the neo-Romantic pitfalls that prevail in American opera circles." Of the same work, Thomas Busse wrote in San Francisco Classical Voice, "The music’s greatest strength was its singability, attributable to the composer’s being a vocalist himself.
I would describe Shearer’s eclectic style as more declamatory than lyrical." Of Shearer's opera Middlemarch in Spring Janos Gereben wrote in the San Francisco Examiner, "Shearer's music is pleasantly dissonant, with a sound that sticks in the ears and memory.
It's ambiguous music, seemingly wondering [sic] between keys, but landing securely each time."
The Singer Josephine (2023), opera in one act on a libretto by Claudia Stevens after Kafka
Einstein at Princeton (2022), opera in one act on a libretto by Claudia Stevens
Prospero's Island (2021), opera in two acts on a libretto by Claudia Stevens after Shakespeare's The Tempest
A Very Large Mole (2009), chamber opera in one act on a libretto after Franz Kafka by Claudia Stevens
Riddle Me (2010), chamber opera in one act on a libretto by Claudia Stevens
Roundelay (2011) for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Footloose (2013) for flute, violin and guitar
Intermezzo (2014) for clarinet solo
Kissing Marfa (2015), comic opera in one scene on a libretto by Claudia Stevens based on a short story by Anton Chekhov
Road Piece (2015) for brass trio and percussion
Circe's Pigs (2016), chamber opera in one act on a libretto by Claudia Stevens
Sea Critter (2016) for piano solo
Howards End, America (2018), opera in three acts on a libretto by Claudia Stevens after the novel by E. M. Forster
Early Start (2019) for flute, cello and piano
Thinking Thoughts (2019) for violin and piano
October (2020) for brass quintet