biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. She studied at Edinburgh University, the Paris Conservatoire, and with Nadia Boulanger. Her early work was largely Scottish in inspiration, but in the late 1950s became more abstract, and she has used serial and aleatory devices. Her music includes the dramatic choral work The Five Ages of Man (1963), a full-length ballet, Beauty and the Beast (1968), and the operas The Voice of Ariadne (1972–3), based on a story by Henry James, and Simon Bolívar (1995). Other works include the orchestral pieces The Seasons (1988), Autumn Sonata (1994), and Pheonix Rising (1998), an oboe concerto, Helios (1995). |
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