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* ''Solar Reflection'', fors jazz band
* ''Solar Reflection'', fors jazz band
* ''Ya Gotta Be Kiddin'', for piano
* ''Ya Gotta Be Kiddin'', for piano
* ''Raggity Three Step'', for piano
* ''Raggity Three Step'', for piano<ref>Reviewed January 2016 at http://skopemag.com/2016/01/25/canary-burton-raggity-three-step</ref>




Burton's music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
Burton's music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
* ''Piano Music from Cape Cod'', Audio CD, January 18, 2005, Seabird Studio<ref>See http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/canaryburton</ref>
* ''Piano Music from Cape Cod'', Audio CD, January 18, 2005, Seabird Studio<ref>Order from http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/canaryburton Reviewed May 2013 at http://skopemag.com/2013/05/15/canary-burton-piano-music-from-cape-cod</ref>
* ''Women in Harmony'', Audio CD, Tempus Floridum, 2010<ref>See http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tempusfloridum</ref>
* ''Women in Harmony'', Audio CD, Tempus Floridum, 2010<ref>See http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tempusfloridum</ref>
* ''Jazz Bird'', Audio CD, 2014<ref>See http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/canaryburton4</ref>
* ''Jazz Bird'', Audio CD, 2014<ref>Order from http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/canaryburton4 Reviewed July 2014 at http://skopemag.com/2014/07/01/canary-burton-jazz-bird</ref>
* ''Soundpaintings'', electroacoustic, 2012
* ''Soundpaintings'', electroacoustic, 2012
* ''Soundpaintings" electroacoustic, 2014
* ''Soundpaintings" electroacoustic, 2014

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Canary Lee Burton (born September 16, 1942) is an American keyboardist, composer and writer. Burton was born in Richmond, California and later lived in El Paso, Texas. She studied music at the University of Idaho at Moscow, Idaho, from 1972–1979,[1] and relocated to Washington D.C. and then to Cape Cod. Burton continued her studies with Kevin Toney in jazz in 1980, with David Sussman in 1988, with John Zielinski in composition from 1990 to 1992, and briefly with Rodney Lister at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1995.[2] She worked as a music teacher from 1996–2000.

Burton founded and played in various rock and jazz ensembles while completing her education and worked at WPFW Pacifica radio in Washington D.C. for three years. After moving to Cape Cod, she established her own contemporary music radio show The Latest Score, on WOMR in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[3] Selected pieces of her work were included in the published collection Music of Living Composers, compiled by the Campbell University piano professor and composer Betty Wishart in 1997. Her works have been performed internationally.[4] Burton's music, with information about her work, is archived in the Wellfleet (MA) Public Library and in Italy in the library of the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica.[5]

Her married name was Driller.[6]

Selected works

  • Familiarity (1977), lead sheet, jazz, one instrument[7]
  • Meteor Shower (1977), jazz/instrumental
  • Sometime After One (1982), for piano
  • Gaia Morning, Gaia Noon, Gaia Night (1987), for piano
  • Costa Brava (1989), for piano
  • Atlantic Sonata (1992), for piano
  • The Promise (1993), for voice and piano
  • Companion (2006), for jazz piano[8]
  • Companion, extended for for bass, piano and flute
  • Archeological Record (2008), for piano[9]
  • Daniella’s Hope (2008), for piano four-hands[10]
  • Whispers (2011), for guitar[11]
  • String Theory (2011), for string orchestra[10]
  • Chopin Slept (2011), for piano trio[12]
  • In the Beginning, for organ
  • A Green and Yellow Basket, for organ
  • Atlantic Sunset, for solo piano
  • Costa Brava, for solo piano
  • Daniella's Hope, for solo piano
  • Solo Viola, for solo viola
  • Clara Young, for voice and piano
  • American Lullaby, for voice and piano
  • Early in the Morning, for voice and piano
  • The Tea Party: The Tea Party; Dancing with my Teddy; Playing Dress Up; Ad Hoc
  • Folksong for My Mother piano
  • Victoria's Harp, for piano
  • Southern River, for cello and viola
  • We want to Pond Naked, for voice, flute, oboe, piano
  • No More Violins, for violin and piano
  • The Twelth of Cold, for piano, viola, violin, clarinet, bass, cello, in three movements: Fairy Boat; Snow Imp; Frost Heaves
  • Viola Thinks 2, viola solo
  • Sparcity, for viola, bass, flute, tuba
  • Sri Rama, for piano
  • The Promise, for piano and voice

One-minute pieces

  • La Compara, for piano, trumpet and clarinet
  • Cuban Love, for piano
  • Dust Bunnies, for piano
  • Minute Meld, electroacoustic
  • Viola Thinks 1, for viola solo
  • Indian Voices, electroacoustic
  • Clara Young, for piano and voice
  • American Lullaby, for piano and voice
  • Sigred's Lullaby, for piano
  • Early in the Morning, for piano and voice
  • Nightfall in the City, for piano and voice
  • Refugee, for.guitar and voice

Jazz

  • Lulu's Rag, for jazz band
  • Sinuosity, for flute, oboe, piano
  • Solar Reflection, fors jazz band
  • Ya Gotta Be Kiddin, for piano
  • Raggity Three Step, for piano[13]


Burton's music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:

  • Piano Music from Cape Cod, Audio CD, January 18, 2005, Seabird Studio[14]
  • Women in Harmony, Audio CD, Tempus Floridum, 2010[15]
  • Jazz Bird, Audio CD, 2014[16]
  • Soundpaintings, electroacoustic, 2012
  • Soundpaintings" electroacoustic, 2014
  • Harbor

References

  1. ^ Anne Gray, The World of Women in Classical Music (La Jolla CA: WordWorld, 2007).
  2. ^ "Resume". Retrieved November 24, 2015.
  3. ^ http://womr.org.
  4. ^ "Pan pipes: Sigma Alpha Iota quarterly". 99. 2006. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ See http://www.donneinmusica.org
  6. ^ Canary Burton, At the piano (CNN Report, July 24, 2008).
  7. ^ Burton's works from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s are listed at http://www.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/43856_canary_burton/.
  8. ^ Listed in Pan Pipes: Sigma Alpha Iota Quarterly, 99 (2006). Premiered by Daniella Baas, November 2007; see http://www.sai-national.org/home/ComposersBureau/BurtonCanaryL/tabid/280/Default.aspx.
  9. ^ Premiered by Max Lifchitz, October 2008; see http://newswire.scena.org/2008/10/composers-young-and-younger.html.
  10. ^ a b See http://www.sai-national.org/home/ComposersBureau/BurtonCanaryL/tabid/280/Default.aspx.
  11. ^ Concert poster is at http://www.seabirdstudio.com/guitar. Information is on Aaron Larget-Caplan webpage http://www.aaronlc.com/newlullaby/ .
  12. ^ Commissioned by Daniella Baas. Premiered by Elisabeth Deletaille, violin, Bruno Ispiola, cello, and André Grignard, piano. See http://www.sai-national.org/home/ComposersBureau/BurtonCanaryL/tabid/280/Default.aspx.
  13. ^ Reviewed January 2016 at http://skopemag.com/2016/01/25/canary-burton-raggity-three-step
  14. ^ Order from http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/canaryburton Reviewed May 2013 at http://skopemag.com/2013/05/15/canary-burton-piano-music-from-cape-cod
  15. ^ See http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tempusfloridum
  16. ^ Order from http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/canaryburton4 Reviewed July 2014 at http://skopemag.com/2014/07/01/canary-burton-jazz-bird

Further reading

  • Burns, Kristine Helen. Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2002, I: 312.
  • Fanfare Magazine, March/April 2012: 272.
  • Pan Pipes: Sigma Alpha Iota Quarterly, 94–95 (2002): 24-25.
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