Richard Peaslee
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Richard Peaslee (born 1930) is a composer for the theatre.[1]
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[edit] Works
He has written the music for:
[edit] London
- the Peter Brook / Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night's Dream, US and Antony and Cleopatra;
- Peter Hall / National Theatre Animal Farm;
- Terry Hands / RSC Tamburlaine the Great;
- and the musical Moby-Dick.
[edit] New York City
- Joseph Papp / New York Shakespeare Festival Richard III, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Troilus and Cressida and Antigone;
- Martha Clarke and Music Theatre Group The Garden of Earthly Delights, Vienna Lusthaus, The Hunger Artist and Miracolo d'Amore;
- Broadway Indians, Teibele and Her Demon, Frankenstein and Boccaccio;
- children's / family theatre The Snow Queen, The Children's Crusade and Tanglewood Tales; and an opera, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
[edit] Dance
New York City Ballet Touch and Pilobolus The Four Humours, Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovitch, Kathryn Posin, Grethe Holby and Elizabeth Keen.
[edit] Concert works
the Philadelphia, Detroit, Seattle, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, and Buffalo Symphony Orchestras. Jazz, William Russo's London Jazz Orchestra, Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Stan Kenton and Ted Heath Orchestras and Gerry Mulligan.
[edit] Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Marc Blitzstein award
- Obie
- Villager Award
- NEA fellowships.
- NYFA fellowships.
[edit] References
- ^ "Richard Peaslee". schirmer.com. 2010. http://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&composerId_2872=2845. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
