Corey Dargel
{{short description|American classical composer}}{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
Corey Dargel (born October 19, 1977, in McAllen, Texas) is a composer, lyricist, and singer who makes a mix of contemporary classical and electronic pop music.{{cite news |last=Tommasini |first=Anthony |date=September 17, 2005 |title=At the Mercantile Library, Contemporary Classical Performers Lean Perilously Close to Pop |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/arts/music/17comp.html |accessdate=February 4, 2010}}
Career
Formally trained in music composition, Dargel studied with Pauline Oliveros, John Luther Adams, and Brenda Hutchinson, and received a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin.
Dargel writes and composes all of his songs. In his earlier compositions, he accompanied his own voice with prepared electronics. His debut album, Less Famous Than You, released in May 2006 with Use Your Teeth records, is in the singer-songwriter style and incorporates totalist rhythmic relationships. His next album, Other People's Love Songs, released in 2008 with the contemporary classical label New Amsterdam Records, combines indie pop and postminimalist contemporary classical music.{{cite news |last=Sheridan |first=Molly |date=October 23, 2008 |title=Love connection |work=Time Out New York |url=http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/opera-classical/68112/love-connection |url-status=dead |accessdate=June 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907222710/http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/opera-classical/68112/love-connection |archive-date=September 7, 2009}}
In May 2010, New Amsterdam released a two-CD set entitled Someone Will Take Care of Me, which combines two song cycles performed by Dargel and other musicians live.{{Cite web |date=2018-04-05 |title=New Amsterdam Records - Someone Will Take Care of Me Corey Dargel |url=https://www.newamrecords.org/albums/someone-will-take-care-of-me |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=New Amsterdam Records |language=en-US}} The instrumentation for these two cycles is in the classical song cycle tradition.
Discography
= Studio albums =
- Less Famous Than You (Use Your Teeth, 2006)
- Other People's Love Songs (New Amsterdam Records, 2008)
- Someone Will Take Care of Me (New Amsterdam Records, 2010), with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Kathleen Supové and David T. Little
- Last Words from Texas (Automatic Heartbreak, 2011)
- OK It's Not OK (New Amsterdam Records, 2015){{cite web |url=http://automaticheartbreak.com/topics/records/ |title=Records |author= |website=Corey Dargel|access-date=June 13, 2020}}
= Compilations =
- Unreleased Songs (2001–2011) (Automatic Heartbreak, 2011){{Cite web |last=Oteri |first=Frank J. |date=2012-04-01 |title=Corey Dargel: The Challenges of Empathy - New Music USA |url=https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/corey-dargel/,%20https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/corey-dargel/ |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=newmusicusa.org |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.automaticheartbreak.com/ Official website]
- [https://www.culturebot.org/2009/12/4951/five-questions-with-corey-dargel/ Interview with Culturebot]
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