Charles Jones (composer)
{{short description|Canadian-born music educator and composer}}
Charles Jones (June 21, 1910 – June 6, 1997) was a Canadian-born music educator and composer of contemporary classical music who lived and worked mainly in the United States.
Early life and education
Jones was born in Tamworth, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada. He moved to Toronto at the age of ten, eventually traveling to New York City in 1928. He studied at The Juilliard School, where his primary instructor was Bernard Wagenaar.
Career
By 1937 Jones had composed a number of classical works; that year a concert by Francis James and his string quartet, consisting entirely of Jones' compositions, was held in Toronto at the Eaton Auditorium.{{cite book|author=Lazarevǐc, Gordana|title=The Musical World of Frances James and Murray Adaskin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=77ZAAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-5738-9|page=141}}
Jones began teaching at Mills College in California from 1939 to 1944,{{cite book|last1=Randel|first1=Don Michael
|editor1-last=Randel|editor1-first=Don Michael|title=The Harvard biographical dictionary of music|date=1996|publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England|isbn=0674372999|accessdate=18 January 2020|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand|archiveurl=https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand|archivedate=12 November 2013|page=[https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/868 868]}} and at the Music Academy of the West in 1949 and 1950. From 1951 on he taught at the Aspen Festival, where he met and worked with Darius Milhaud.{{cite book|author=Jeannie Gayle Pool|title=American Composer Zenobia Powell Perry: Race and Gender in the 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oimX0EvY8MwC&pg=PA129|date=19 December 2008|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6377-4|pages=129, 133}} He taught at the Juilliard School between 1954 and 1960, and again in 1973.[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/united-states-of-america-emc "Music of the United States of America"]. The Canadian Encyclopedia. by Helmut Kallmann, April 6, 2008 During the 1970s he taught composition at the Mannes College of Music, starting in 1972.[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/10/arts/charles-jones-a-composer-86.html "Charles Jones, a Composer, 86"]. The New York Times, Jun 10, 1997. by Anthony Tommasini{{cite book|title=Careers & opportunities in music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UT5FAQAAIAAJ|year=1964|page=155|last1 = Rich|first1 = Alan}}
His works have been performed by the New York Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra.
The music critic Tim Page and composer Walter Buczynski were among Jones's notable students.
Discography
- Charles Jones: New & Historial Recordings, 2005, Albany Music Distribution "Teacher-Composers in a Class by Themselves". The Washington Post. Oct 9, 2005
References
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External links
- [http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?&new_rel=1&album_id=102002 Charles Jones page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310190734/http://dram.nyu.edu/dram/note.cgi?id=8748 Charles Jones liner notes]
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Category:20th-century classical composers
Category:Canadian classical composers
Category:People from Lennox and Addington County
Category:Canadian male classical composers
Category:20th-century Canadian composers
Category:Juilliard School alumni
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Category:Mannes College The New School for Music faculty
Category:Mills College faculty
Category:20th-century Canadian male musicians