Thomas
Oboe Lee, composer
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Profile
Education: University of Pittsburgh, B.A. 1972
New England Conservatory of Music, M.M. 1974 & 1976
Harvard University, Ph.D. 1981
Career: Faculty member of the Music Department at Boston College since 1990
E-mail: thomas.o.lee@comcast.net
Listen to TOL music, on-site.
"Forró" with conductor Gunther Schuller and the Pro
Arte
Chamber Orchestra
"Morango ... almost a tango" with the Kronos Quartet
"Eight
Tarot Cards for Madam Rubio - La Ruota della Fortuna" with
Nancy
Zeltsman and Janice Potter
Claude McKay's poem "Truth" with choral director
John Finney and the Heritage Chorale
"Flauta
Carioca, 1st movement" with Bart Feller and the New Jersey Symphony
Orchestra
"Twenty-nine Fireflies, Book III ... 0347 - like a music
box" with Robert Levin
Lux Aeterna I
with Jane Ring Frank Singers
Lux Aeterna II with Jane Ring Frank Singers
Lux Aeterna III with Jane Ring Frank Singers
Lux Aeterna IV with Jane Ring Frank Singers
Lux Aeterna V with Jane Ring Frank Singers
An
excerpt from Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis" with Tim Krol and Holly
Chatham
Listen to TOL music,
off-site.
Listen
to high-quality lossless AIFF files of TOL songs and albums
@ bandcamp
A complete list
of TOL music on
thirty-five CD-Rs and a chamber opera on DVD
Listen
to 101 TOL "songs" @ www.reverbnation.com
List of works, performances, reviews, links, Wiki-bio, etc.
Premieres and performances of TOL music from 1993 to the current season, 2011-12
Complete list by category - orchestral, choral, vocal, opera and chamber music
Chronological list - over a hundred and forty works from 1974 to the present
Critical reviews of premieres and performances from 1979 to the present
Price list of selected chamber music scores published by Departed Feathers Music
Thomas Oboe Lee's biographical entry at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Publications and Recordings
Departed Feathers Music - orchestral, chamber, vocal and choral music
Theodore Presser Company/Merion Music Inc. - The Inman Diaries ... A Chamber Opera in Two Acts
G. Schirmer Inc./Associated Music Publishers - early works originally published by Margun Music Inc.
Recordings on Nonesuch , GM1 , GM2 , GM3 , Arsis Audio, Northeastern, BMG Catalyst, MCA Classics and Koch International Classics
Click
here for Koch International Classics CD with the Hawthorne String
Quartet!!!
Mp3 downloads @ iTunes, Amazon,
Napster, eMusic, Rhapsody, Spotify, etc.
Ten video clips of "The Inman Diaries ... A Chamber
Opera in Two
Acts" on YouTube.
Prologue and Act One
Scene 1: Arthur's soliloquy
Act One Scene 4: Dr. Pike and Evelyn
Act One Scene 6:
Roosevelt's New Deal
Act Two Scene 2:
Prudential Tower and Kathy
Act Two Scene 5:
Billy and Arthur Duet
Act Two Scene 6: Empire State
Building
Watch webcast of Pilobolus' Symbiosis with TOL music at TED conference:
A performance
merging
dance and biology
[click on image]
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Grant, 1995
American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize Fellowship, 1986-87
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 & 2011
Charles Ives Fellowship, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1985
Boston College Research Incentive Grants 1996, 1999, 2006 & 2010
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1983 & 1986
Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, First Prize for Chamber Music Composition, 1983
Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music
Recording
Grant, 1982
Massachusetts Artists
Foundation
Fellowship, 1977 & 1983
Renée B. Fisher Foundation Composer Award, 2002
American
Composers Forum "Continental Harmony Project I" for the American
Jazz
Philharmonic -
Symphony No. 3
... Portraits in Jazz (2000)
American Composers Forum "Continental Harmony Project II" for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra - Symphony No. 6 ... The Penobscot River (2004)
American Composers Forum "Continental Harmony Project II" for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra - Symphony No. 6 ... The Penobscot River (2004)
Amnesty
International
USA - I Never Saw
Another Butterfly (1991)
Apple Hill Chamber Players - Piano Quintet ... Apple Strudel (1988)
Artaria Quartet of Boston - ART: arias and interludes (1996, rev. 1997)
Arto Ensemble - Yo Picasso (1997)
Bart Feller, flutist - Waltzes, opus 101 (2002)
Bill Drury and Jordan Winds - Concerto for Concert Band (2011)
Boston College Research Incentive Grant - Part The First ... THOU Mastering Me God! (2010)
Boston College Research Incentive Grant - God's Grandeur ... For the 150th Anniversary of the Founding of Boston College (work-in-progress)
Apple Hill Chamber Players - Piano Quintet ... Apple Strudel (1988)
Artaria Quartet of Boston - ART: arias and interludes (1996, rev. 1997)
Arto Ensemble - Yo Picasso (1997)
Bart Feller, flutist - Waltzes, opus 101 (2002)
Bill Drury and Jordan Winds - Concerto for Concert Band (2011)
Boston College Research Incentive Grant - Part The First ... THOU Mastering Me God! (2010)
Boston College Research Incentive Grant - God's Grandeur ... For the 150th Anniversary of the Founding of Boston College (work-in-progress)
Boston Landmarks Orchestra - Pluto ... Lord of the Underworld (2005)
Boston Landmarks Orchestra - Emerald Necklace ... The Story of Frederick Law Olmsted (2009)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project for Ina Zdorovetchi, harp - "... bisbigliando ..." (2008-09)
Brockton Symphony Orchestra for Jonathan Cohler - Clarinet Concert ... Sounds of the Islands (2003)
Brockton Symphony Orchestra - Concerto for Orchestra, opus 111 (2004)
Carl and Claudia Shuster for MusicWorks in the Berkshires - String Quartet No. 10 ... The Berkshires (2006)
Carson P. Cooman, organist - Fantasia for solo organ (2001)
Chamber Orchestra of Boston - Tangata Manu (2009)
Charles W. Engelhard Foundation, Boston College Research Incentive Grant, Jesuit Institute and Jesuit Community of Boston College for the University Chorale of Boston College - Mass for the Holy Year 2000
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston for Andrés Díaz - Eurydice ... A Tone Poem for Cello and Orchestra (1994-95)
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston - Symphony No. 2 ... A Phantasmagorey Ballet (1998)
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston - Symphony No. 4 ... War and Peace (2001)
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston for Andrew Price, principal oboe - Persephone and the Four Seasons (2006)
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston for Irina Muresanu - Violin Concerto, opus 129 (2009)
Cross Sound Festival 2001 - I've Got The Munchies (2001, rev. 2004)
Daniel Stepner, violinist - Chôros, opus 61 (1994-95)
Deborah and Larry Chud for Robert Levin and the Boston Classical Orchestra - Piano Concerto ... Mozartiana (2007)
Elizabeth & Lydia Reed - The Visconti Sforza Tarot Cards, opus 66 ... Twenty-two salon pieces for two pianos (1996)
Epstein Family for Herb Epstein, violist - Voilà! ... Seven Movements for Violin and Viola!! (2001)
Fairfield Chamber Orchestra for Susan Radcliff - Concertino for trumpet, strings and timpani (1986)
Foundation for Universal Sacred Music - Mechthild von Magdeburg: Minnelieder an Got (2005)
Harvard Musical Association for the Manhattan String Quartet - String Quartet on B-flat (1989/90, rev. 1993)
Hawthorne String Quartet - The New England Transcendentalists: Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts & Thoreau (2002)
Intermezzo, The New England Chamber Opera Series - The Inman Diaries ... A Chamber Opera in Two Acts (2007)
James David Christie and John Finney for the Wellesley Hills Congregational Church - Christmas Cantata (2001)
Jerome Foundation for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra - String Trio (1985)
Jesuit Institute and Jesuit Community of Boston College for Ecclesia Consort of New England - Stabat Mater (2002)
King's Chapel, Boston - The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1998)
Kronos Quartet - Departed Feathers (1980)
Kronos Quartet - Morango ... Almost A Tango (1983)
Kronos Quartet - Third String Quartet ... child of Uranus, father of Zeus (1982)
Lexington Symphony Chamber Players - Walden, opus 123 (2008)
Lydian String Quartet - Seven Jazz Pieces (1990-91)
Mary and Peter Rentz for the Richmond Performance Series - Hancock Shaker Village (2001)
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities Grant - Marimolintoo (1989-90)
Massachusetts Philharmonic Orchestra - Symphony No. 7 ... Roman Holidays (2008)
Nancy Braithwaite - Octet (2012)
National Endowment for the Arts Composers Fellowship Grant for Collage New Music - Hylidae ... The Tree Frogs (1984)
National Endowment for the Arts Composers Fellowship Grant for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble - Chôrinhos, opus 38 (1987)
Paul Chou & Paul Salerni, a violin and piano duo - Tunesmith ... An American Beauty Pageant (1993)
Peter Papesch, architect - Love Songs (1998), Summer Lilies (2000) & Morning Bliss (2000)
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston for Ann Hobson-Pilot - Harp Concerto (1985)
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston - Forró (1998)
Raphael Trio - Piano Trio No. 1 (1994, rev.
2000)
Richmond Performance Series - Septet, opus 77 ... Variations on a Shaker Tune (1998)
St. Mary's Church Our Lady of the Isle on Nantucket Island for organist James David Christie - Toccata, Adagio & Fugue (2001)
Steven Lipsitt amd Boston Classical Orchestra - Symphony No. 8 ... The City of Light (2011)
Tammy Lum and Formosa String Quartet - Piano Quintet (2008)
Terezín Chamber Music Foundation and Project STEP - Seven Steps to Heaven (2002)
Terezín Chamber Music Foundation - The Flowers of Terezín (2004)
Wellesley Symphony Orchestra - Focus on Grace ... Concerto for Jazz Saxophone and Orchestra (2010)
Richmond Performance Series - Septet, opus 77 ... Variations on a Shaker Tune (1998)
St. Mary's Church Our Lady of the Isle on Nantucket Island for organist James David Christie - Toccata, Adagio & Fugue (2001)
Steven Lipsitt amd Boston Classical Orchestra - Symphony No. 8 ... The City of Light (2011)
Tammy Lum and Formosa String Quartet - Piano Quintet (2008)
Terezín Chamber Music Foundation and Project STEP - Seven Steps to Heaven (2002)
Terezín Chamber Music Foundation - The Flowers of Terezín (2004)
Wellesley Symphony Orchestra - Focus on Grace ... Concerto for Jazz Saxophone and Orchestra (2010)
Family: Married to my ballet teacher, Kristin Beckwith; no children.
Leisure: Soaring in ballet classes five times a week, listening to Art Tatum and vacationing/working in Rome, Italy.
Collector: Ballet and music autographs, books, drawings, exotic plants, paintings, photographs, prints, scores, sculptures, toy pianos, etc.
American Academy in Rome
American Music Center
Nancy Zeltsman, a marimbist in Boston, MA
New England Conservatory of Music
Robert Livingston Aldridge, a composer in Montclair,
NJ
Rosalie O'Connor, a photographer in New York City
Rosalie O'Connor, a photographer in New York City
Susan Jaffe, former principal dancer with ABT, now ballet teacher and choreographer
Susan Kammerer, an artist in Rome
The Living Composers Project
Weiferd Watts, a photographer of dance and ballet
Yesterday Service, Inc.
Weiferd Watts, a photographer of dance and ballet
TOL list of artistic
genius
in the USA: past and present!
Charles E. Ives: composer.
Cole Porter: composer & lyricist.
Fred Astaire: dancer & choreographer.
Gene Kelly: dancer & choreographer.
George Balanchine: choreographer.
Jerome Robbins: choreographer.
Joseph Cornell: artist.
George Booth: New Yorker cartoonist.
Dave Frishberg: incomparable songwriter & composer.
Art Tatum: Beyond words to describe him!
Oscar Peterson: What more can I say??? I know, I know - he's really Canadian by birth.
Joni Mitchell: singer & song writer: I know, once again, another Canadian.
And what about that Catalan jazz pianist, Tete Montoliu??? He took all of Peterson and Tatum and created an alchemy all his own!
Keith Jarrett: a truly phenomenal musician!!!
Joey DeFrancesco: He went beyond Jimmy Smith!!!
Thelonious Sphere Monk: He went beyond everybody!
Tony Bennett and Bill Evans: What a fabulous duo!
The Bill Evans Trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian at the Village Vanguard, New York City, Sunday, June 25, 1961!!!!
Bill Evans and Jim Hall: An amazing combination.
Jim Hall and Paul Desmond: Another amazing combination.
Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan: Yet another amazing combination.
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones!!!
Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Tony Williams!!!
Charles E. Ives: composer.
Cole Porter: composer & lyricist.
Fred Astaire: dancer & choreographer.
Gene Kelly: dancer & choreographer.
George Balanchine: choreographer.
Jerome Robbins: choreographer.
Joseph Cornell: artist.
George Booth: New Yorker cartoonist.
Dave Frishberg: incomparable songwriter & composer.
Art Tatum: Beyond words to describe him!
Oscar Peterson: What more can I say??? I know, I know - he's really Canadian by birth.
Joni Mitchell: singer & song writer: I know, once again, another Canadian.
And what about that Catalan jazz pianist, Tete Montoliu??? He took all of Peterson and Tatum and created an alchemy all his own!
Keith Jarrett: a truly phenomenal musician!!!
Joey DeFrancesco: He went beyond Jimmy Smith!!!
Thelonious Sphere Monk: He went beyond everybody!
Tony Bennett and Bill Evans: What a fabulous duo!
The Bill Evans Trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian at the Village Vanguard, New York City, Sunday, June 25, 1961!!!!
Bill Evans and Jim Hall: An amazing combination.
Jim Hall and Paul Desmond: Another amazing combination.
Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan: Yet another amazing combination.
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones!!!
Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Tony Williams!!!
Last update: April 27, 2012
Happy Birthday to Frederick Law olmsted 1822, Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev 1891, and Connie Kay 1927!!!
