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Daniel Pinkham (Daniel Rogers Pinkham Jr.) was born on 5 June, 1923 in Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American composer. Discover Daniel Pinkham'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 83 years old?

Popular As Daniel Rogers Pinkham Jr.
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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 5 June 1923
Birthday 5 June
Birthplace Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death 18 December, 2006
Died Place Natick, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1923

Daniel Rogers Pinkham Jr. (June 5, 1923 – December 18, 2006) was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist.

Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, into a prominent family engaged in the manufacture of patent medicines (his great-grandmother was Lydia E. Pinkham), he studied organ performance and music theory at Phillips Academy with Carl F. Pfatteicher.

1925

Among Pinkham's notable students were the jazz musician and composer Gigi Gryce (1925–1983) and the composer Mark DeVoto.

1930

At various points in his career, he embraced plainchant, medievally-influenced modal writing, and 17th-century forms (in the 1930s and 40s, under the influence of Stravinsky and Hindemith and reflecting his commitment to the early music revival), dodecaphony and serialism (in the 1950s and 60s), electronic music (beginning in 1970), and the neo-baroque idiom.

Some of Pinkham's best-known works are designed for services: the Christmas, Advent, and Wedding cantatas, the latter of which is performed particularly often.

1939

"The single event that changed my life was a concert [at Andover] by the Trapp Family Singers in 1939, right after they had escaped from Germany," Pinkham once recalled.

1942

There he completed a bachelor's degree in 1942 and a master's in 1944.

He also studied harpsichord with Putnam Aldrich and Wanda Landowska, and organ with E. Power Biggs.

At Tanglewood, he studied composition with Samuel Barber and Arthur Honegger, and subsequently with Nadia Boulanger.

1946

Pinkham taught at the Boston Conservatory beginning in 1946, and at the New England Conservatory of Music from 1959 until his death in 2006; while there, he created and chaired the program on early music performance.

1950

Pinkham's scholarship and work were recognized with a Fulbright Fellowship in 1950 and a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1962.

He received honorary degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music as well as from Nebraska Wesleyan University, Adrian College, Westminster Choir College, Ithaca College, and the Boston Conservatory.

1951

In 1951, Pinkham conducted ten works by Boulanger Award winners in their Boston performance première in a special Peabody Mason Concert series commemorating the Paris Bi-Millennial year.

1953

He also taught at various times at Simmons University (1953–1954), Boston University (1953–1954), and Harvard University (1957–1958).

1958

For forty-two years (1958–2000), Pinkham was the organist of King's Chapel in Boston, a position which gave him much exposure to and opportunity to write church-related music; the Sunday evening concert series he created there celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007.

He was also a frequent guest on the E. Power Biggs program on the CBS Radio Network.

He performed regularly with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as an organist and as a harpsichordist, and he performed extensively with noted violinist Robert Brink, with whom he commissioned a duo for violin and harpsichord from Alan Hovhaness.

Pinkham's output represents a broad cross-section of 20th-century musical trends.

He produced work in virtually every genre, from symphonies to art songs, though the preponderance of his music is religious in nature, frequently choral and/or involving organ.

Much of his music was written for use in church services or other ceremonial occasions, and reflected his longstanding relationship with King's Chapel.

1971

In 1971, he wrote The Other Voices of the Trumpet for trumpet, organ, and tape, for the inaugural International Contemporary Organ Music Festival at the Hartt School of Music.

1981

"Here, suddenly, I was hearing clarity, simplicity. It shaped my whole outlook," he said in a 1981 interview with The Boston Globe.

At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston; Aaron Copland, Archibald T. Davison, and Arthur Tillman Merritt were also among his teachers.

1982

In 1982, he returned to the Hartt festival to give a lecture about his own harpsichord music.

1990

In 1990, Pinkham was named Composer of the Year by the American Guild of Organists.

1995

In 1995, he was awarded the Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association.

2003

In 2003, he gained further notice with his commissioned piece, written for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, of Make Way for Ducklings.

In keeping with the name of the ensemble, the work was designed to be performed for families at the Boston Public Garden, near the famous sculptures based on Robert McCloskey's endearing picture book.

2006

In 2006 Pinkham was named Musician of the Year by the Boston Musicians' Association, AFM Local 9-535.

Pinkham died in Natick, Massachusetts, of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, at the age of 83.

He is survived by his longtime partner, the organist Andrew Paul Holman.