Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945
by Paul Griffiths
Period: Late 20th Century
Born: Saturday, June 14, 1947 in Port Arthur, Texas (USA)
As of September 2004 this composer is still living.
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Nation of Origin:
Major Works:
Voices From Chaco: Concertino for Piano and Woodwind Quintet
Fajada Butte: An Epiphany - Symphonic Movement
Simple Gifts, Shaker Tune - arr. for boys' voices and piano
Birds in Winter - Six Preludes for Harp
Other Information:
After having visited there as a child, Mauldin moved to New Mexico in
1971 for "the space, the light and the timelessness." He was named Composer
of the Year in a 1980 nationwide competition sponsored by the Music Teachers
National Association for "Voices From Chaco: Concertino for Piano and
Woodwind Quintet."
"Introduction of the Child to the Cosmos", for mixed chorus and piano, won
first place in a national competition sponsored by Ithaca College and
Theodore Presser. "Fajada Butte: An Epiphany", a symphonic movement
commissioned and recorded by the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, was
performed by the National Repertory Orchestra at the 20th Anniversary
celebration concert of the National Endowment for the Arts at the Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts in 1985.
Mauldin's arrangement of "Simple Gifts" for boys' choir and piano has sold
thousands of copies in the USA, Europe and Australia. His "Birds in Winter:
Six Preludes for Harp" was a required work for the USA International Harp
Competition in 1998.
Mauldin served for seven years as Musical Director of the Albuquerque Boy
Choir (of which his two sons are alumni), during which time it grew to
include three choirs that tour, record and proceed through a rigorous
musicianship program. He is an outspoken advocate for the rights of
children and has mentored many young people in the arts.
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629
Lampert, Vera; Kemp, Ian; and White, Eric Walter, The New Grove Modern Masters (The New Grove Series), W. W. Norton & Company, November 1997, ISBN: 0393315924
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Slonimsky, Nicolas, Music Since 1900, Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186
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