William Bolcom
William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, and the Detroit Music Award, and was named Composer of the Year by Musical America in 2007. He taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973 to 2008 and was named the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Composition in 2006. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.
Genre: ragtime
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Top Tracks
- 3 Ghost Rags: No. 1. The Graceful Ghost
- The Garden of Eden: I. Old Adam
- The Garden of Eden: III. The Serpent's Kiss
- 3 Ghost Rags: No. 2. The Poltergeist
- 3 Ghost Rags: No. 1. Graceful Ghost: Graceful Ghost Rag
- Graceful Ghost Rag (Live)
- 3 Ghost Rags: No. 3. Dream Shadows
- 3 Classic Rags: No. 1. Glad Rag
- The Garden of Eden: IV. Through Eden's Gates
- The Garden of Eden: II. The Eternal Feminine
- Fields of Flowers
- Raggin' Rudi
- The Brooklyn Dodge
- 3 Classic Rags: No. 3. Incineratorag
- Knockout: A Rag
- 3 Classic Rags: No. 2. Epitaph for Louis Chauvin
- Epithalamium
- Estela: Rag Latino
- A View from the Bridge: New York Lights - Live
- Tendrement
Albums (40)
- William Bolcom: Graceful Ghost Rag (2024)
- Three Rags: Poltergeist (arr. by Hamilton Berry) (2024)
- Suite of Preludes (2023)
- Bolcom: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1: No. 6, Amor (Musical Moments) (2023)
- Bolcom: The Complete Rags (2022)
- Bolcom: Chamber Works (2021)
- Schumann: Album for the Young (2021)
- Bolcom Plays Bolcom - Twelve Etudes (1959-66) (2018)
- William Bolcom: Piano Rags (2017)
- Bolcom: Canciones de Lorca & Prometheus (Live) (2015)
- Autumn Leaves (2015)
- Joplin: Euphonic Sounds (2015)
- The Hawthorn Tree (2014)
- Bolcom: Complete Gospel Preludes (2012)
- Bolcom: The 4 Sonatas for Violin and Piano (2010)
- Bolcom: Clarinet Concerto (2009)
- Bolcom: Lyric Concerto & Symphony No. 8 (2009)
- Silver Linings: Songs by Jerome Kern (2008)
- Bolcom: Works for Cello (Complete) (2007)
- Music for Violin and Piano (2007)
- Surprise - Cabaret songs by Bolcom, Satie & Schoenberg (2007)
- Bolcom: Violin Concerto, Fantasia concertante, & Symphony No. 5 (2006)
- Bolcom: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4 (2006)
- Bolcom: Music for Two Pianos (2005)
- Bolcom: Songs (2005)
- Albéniz: Iberia & Other Late Piano Music (2005)
- Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (2004)
- William Bolcom: Complete Cabaret Songs (Live) (2004)
- Bolcom: Complete Cabaret Songs (2004)
- Mckay: Suite for Viola and Piano / My Tahoe Window / An April Suite (2002)
- Kantor (1970)
- A View From The Bridge (2001)
- Bernstein: The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2) – Bolcom: Piano Concerto (2000)
- Bolcom: Chamber Music (2000)
- Complete Rags (1999)
- Sure on This Shining Night: The Romantic Song in America (1997)
- Bolcom: Violin Concerto; Symphony No.5; Fantasia Concertante (1991)
- William Bolcom: Symphony #4/Session 1 (1988)
- Ragtime (1970)
- Sweet Sixteenths: A Ragtime Concert (1970)
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