Lawrence Chandler
Lawrence Dean Chandler (born 27 November 1971) is an American-born composer, musician, and sound artist living in London. He studied at Columbia University, The Juilliard School, and Goldsmiths College and with La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros.[1][2] He is best known as a founding member of Bowery Electric and has worked for Philip Glass.[3][4] Recent works include Music for Rock Ensemble commissioned by The Labèques for "50 Years of Minimalism" at Kings Place[5] and The Tuning of the World, a 24-hour sustained tone piece.[6][7] His current band is Happy Families.[8]
Ancestry
According to genealogist Lillian M. Cain, Chandler is of English ancestry, descended from Alfred the Great through his mother Sarah Law Moody Chandler,[9] maternal grandmother Elizabeth Simpson Dean Moody (and eleventh great-grandfather Robert Lewis II who came to Virginia from England in 1637) and William the Conqueror and King Edward III thorough his maternal grandfather Julian Wright Moody (and eleventh great-grandfather Colonel George Reade who came to Virginia from England in 1635).[10] Through his Virginia ancestry Chandler is related to George Washington as well as Queen Elizabeth II and her descendants with Augustine Warner Jr. and his wife Mildred Reade having been their common ancestors.[11][12] He also shares common ancestry with the explorer Meriwether Lewis.[13] His great-great grandfather William T. Simpson built Dean Hall in Eufala, Alabama, in the 1850s.[14]
References
- ^ http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk/meet-happy-families/
- ^ "Bowery Electric". Retrieved 2009-05-05.
- ^ Reynolds, Simon (November 1995). "Back to the Future". The Wire. No. 141.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk/meet-happy-families/
- ^ http://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2011/11/50-years-of-minimalism-rock-n-rollers-kings-place-london/
- ^ http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?g=detailed%2F841628.html;d=array(0x8679874)[dead link]
- ^ http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk/meet-happy-families/
- ^ "Meet… Happy Families". 2016-11-06.
- ^ "Sarah Moody Roha obituary".
- ^ Robinson Watson, Anna (1901). A Royal Lineage: Alfred the Great. Whittet & Shepperson.
- ^ Browning, Charles Henry (2015). Americans of Royal Descent. BiblioLife. pp. 81, 117, 130, 593, 758, et al.
- ^ Pecquet du Bellet, Louise (1907). Some Prominent Virginia Families. J.P. Bell Co.
- ^ McAllister & Tandy (1906). Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families. E.W. Stephens Pub. Co.
- ^ Law, Mrs. S. C. G. (1892). Reminiscences of the War of the Sixties. Memphis Printing Co.
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