Jonathan Kramer
Jonathan Donald Kramer (December 7, 1942, Hartford, Connecticut – June 3, 2004, New York City) was an American composer and music theorist.
Biography
Kramer received his B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University (1965) and his MA and PhD in music from the University of California, Berkeley (1967 and 1969). His composition teachers included Karlheinz Stockhausen, Roger Sessions, Leon Kirchner, Seymour Shifrin, Andrew Imbrie, Richard Felciano, Jean-Claude Éloy, Billy Jim Layton, Edwin Dugger, and Arnold Franchetti. He studied theory with David Lewin, criticism with Joseph Kerman, and computer music with John Chowning.
Kramer was professor of composition and theory at Columbia University from 1988 until his death in 2004. He also taught at the Oberlin Conservatory, Yale University, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He held visiting appointments at Wesleyan University, King's College London, the Canberra School of Music, the School of Music at the University of Western Australia, the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio (Italy), the Center for New Music and Technology (Berkeley), May in Miami, the ISCM Summer Workshop for Composers (Poland), and the European Mozart Academy (Poland). He served four years as program annotator of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, was annotator of the Cincinnati Symphony from 1980; a collection of his program notes, Listen to the Music, was published by Schirmer Books. He was the Cincinnati Symphony's composer in residence and new-music advisor from 1984 to 1992 and served as artist in residence of the Moebius Ensemble since 1997. His book "The Time of Music" is widely considered to by one of the preeminent works on the topic. He produced and hosted several local and national radio programs and represented American Public Radio three times at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris.
Podcasts:
Jonathan Kramer
ALBUMS
- Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical released: 1968
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
Released 1968- Aquarius
- Donna / Hashish
- Sodomy
- Colored Spade
- Manchester England
- I'm Black / Ain't Got No
- Air
- Initials
- I Got Life
- Hair
- My Conviction
- Don't Put It Down
- Frank Mills
- Be-In
- Where Do I Go?
- Black Boys / White Boys
- Easy to Be Hard
- Walking in Space
- Abie Baby
- Three-Five-Zero-Zero / What a Piece of Work Is Man
- Good Morning Starshine
- The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine in)
Born: 1945-05-11
Died: 1976-05-06
