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Owen Reed (Owen Perceval Elrington Reed) was born on 17 June, 1910 in Odessa, MO, is an American classical composer. Discover Owen Reed'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 104 years old?
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Owen Perceval Elrington Reed |
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producer,director,writer |
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104 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
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17 June, 1910 |
Birthday |
17 June |
Birthplace |
Odessa, MO |
Date of death |
2014 |
Died Place |
Athens, GA |
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United States
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Owen Reed Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Owen Reed's Wife?
His wife is Paddy Goscombe (28 April 1934 - 8 July 1997) ( his death) ( 4 children)
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Paddy Goscombe (28 April 1934 - 8 July 1997) ( his death) ( 4 children) |
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Owen Reed Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Owen Reed worth at the age of 104 years old? Owen Reed’s income source is mostly from being a successful Producer. He is from United States. We have estimated Owen Reed's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Herbert Owen Reed (June 17, 1910 – January 6, 2014) was an American composer, conductor, and author.
Reed was raised in rural Odessa, Missouri, where his first exposure to music was his father's playing of the old-time fiddle (accompanied by his mother at the piano).
Reed was married twice, for nearly fifty years to Esther, who preceded him in death; and for 31 years to Mary, who traveled the world with him and survived him.
He had two daughters, three step-children, fifteen grandchildren, and twenty-two great-grandchildren.
Reed was an avid fisherman and world traveler.
After starting to play jazz in college, he continued beyond his hundredth year, including membership in a Michigan State faculty combo known as the "Geriatric Six."
In addition to his childhood with musically inclined parents, he was also attracted to the popular piano music of the 1920s (such as the novelty piano tunes of Zez Confrey), as well as his family's player piano, which played popular tunes.
He studied piano with Odessa's only piano teacher, Mrs. Felts, who attempted to interest him in the music of Bach and Beethoven.
In 1937 he enrolled at the Eastman School of Music (studying composition with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers, conducting with Paul White, musicology with Howard Gleason, and music theory with Allen I. McHose), receiving a Ph.D. in composition in 1939.
H. Owen Reed joined the composition faculty of Michigan State College in 1939.
His career at MSU lasted for nearly 40 years.
In 1942, at the Berkshire Music Center (Tanglewood), Massachusetts, he studied composition with Bohuslav Martinů, and contemporary music with Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and Stanley Chappel.
In the summer of 1947, he studied composition with Roy Harris at Colorado Springs, Colorado, and also attended lessons with Arnold Schoenberg.
Spiritual (1947), Reed's first composition for band, is based on his recollection of overhearing the exuberant religious expression of African American churchgoers while passing by their churches as a child.
Reed's music is published by G. Schirmer, Warner Brothers, Ballerbach Music, Harrock Hall Music, Triplo Press, Allyn & Bacon, Boosey & Hawkes, Edwin A. Fleisher, EMI Mills, Neil A. Kjos, Ludwig and H. O. Reed Music.
In addition to his compositions, Reed published eight books on the subjects of musical composition and music theory.
His scores, recordings, correspondence, and other papers have been deposited in the Michigan State University Manuscript Collection, in the Special Collections Unit of the Michigan State University Libraries.
The work is based on Aztec, Roman Catholic, mariachi, and other music Reed heard while in Mexico City, Cuernavaca, and Chapala, Mexico for six months between 1948 and 1949.
Reed's best known and most widely performed work is the three-movement concert band composition La Fiesta Mexicana (1949), composed with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
His band composition Missouri Shindig (1951) is based on the American fiddle tune "Give the Fiddler a Dram," which his father had particularly enjoyed playing.
He returned to Mexico in 1960 for a month's further study.
Reed later studied Native American musics in Taos, New Mexico and Arizona, and eventually composed a trilogy of chamber operas based on Native American legends: Earth Trapped (Sioux, 1960), Living Solid Face (Algonquin, 1974), and Butterfly Girl and Mirage Boy (Hopi-Aztec, 1980).
Reed retired from MSU in 1976.
Upon his retirement, MSU granted the title of Professor Emeritus unto Reed.
Just as Béla Bartók investigated the traditional music of Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Turkey, using these as inspirations for his own original works, Reed similarly devoted much study to the traditional music of North America.
Many of his works feature material derived from the Mexican, Native American, Anglo-American and African American cultures, blended with contemporary idioms.
He also studied folk music in the Caribbean in February 1976, and in Norway in the summer of 1977.