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Roger Bourland Roger Bourland (b. Dec. 13, 1952, Evanston, Illinois) received his education from the University of Wisconsin/Madison (B.Mus), the New England Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.). His teachers have included Leon Kirchner, Gunther Schuller, Donald Martino, John Harbison, and Randall Thompson. He received the Koussevitzky Prize in Composition at Tanglewood, the John Knowles Paine Fellowship at Harvard, two ASCAP Grants to Young Composers, numerous Meet the Composers grants, and was a co-founder of the Boston-based consortium "Composers in Red Sneakers." Bourland has composed over one hundred works for all media: solo, instrumental, chamber, vocal and choral music, electro-acoustic music, and music for orchestra, which are published by E.C. Schirmer Music/Boston and Associated Music Publishers, Inc., and recorded on Northeastern Records, 1750 Arch, OpenLoop, and GM Recordings. As a film composer, he has scored "The Wolf at the Door" (1987, CBS/Fox Videocassettes), "The Trouble with Dick" (1986, Academy Video), "Night Life" (1988, RCA/Columbia Videocassettes), and James Merrill's "Voices from Sandover" (1990). In 1991 he scored a 13-part radio series for National Public Radio entitled "Poets in Person," and received his second National Endowment for the Arts grant for a CD of saxophone music. Since 1992, Bourland has received commissions for three full-length cantatas ("Hidden Legacies," "Flashpoint/Stonewall," [both with librettist John Hall], and "Letters to the Future") from five GALA Choruses which have been performed throughout America. Two documentaries were created and televised on the impact of "Hidden Legacies" on gay men's choruses. In 1993, Bourland established Yelton Rhodes Music, a publishing house for choral music. In 1994, he was commissioned to compose "Ozma" in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Topeka Symphony Orchestra. "Rosarium a drama for chorus" a 2 hour work for chorus, soloists, and orchestra with a libretto by William MacDuff, was premiered in 1999 at UCLA's Royce Hall. He has recently fulfilled a commission for the US Navy's choral ensemble, The Sea Chanters entitled "Keeping the Ocean Free" in honor of their 45th anniversary which will receive its premiere on June 2001 in Washington D.C.. Bourland is presently composing a piano quartet for the Los Angeles Chamber group Pacific Serenades, and "Alarcon Madrigals, Book 2" for the Los Angeles women's choral ensemble Vox Femina. At UCLA, Dr. Bourland is a Professor and the Chair of the Composition program in the Department of Music. As an administrator at UCLA, Bourland served as the Chair of the Committee on Committees (1997-98), and the Chair of the Faculty Executive Committee in the Arts (5 yrs). MUSIC BY ROGER BOURLAND CHORAL MUSIC Keeping the Ocean Free (2000) Rosarium, a drama for chorus (1999) Spriritual Gifts (2000) Fa La La (Blah, blah, blah) (1997) Look Behind Our Song (1996) The Acts of Love (1995) Flashpoint/Stonewall (1994) Alarcon Madrigals, Book I (1993) Letters to the Future (1993) All there is is love (1993) Hidden Legacies (1992) Two Christmas Anthems (1988) Dickinson Madrigal Book 3 (1985/9) Psalm 47 (1983) His Spirit Lives (1983) Antiphon (1983) Dickinson Madrigals Book 2 (1983) Dickinson Madrigals Book 1 (1980) CHAMBER MUSIC Stories We Tell (1998) American Baroque (1992) Mirabell (1991) Glamour & Eros (1990) St. Stephen Counterpoint (1990) A Neutral Cafˇ (1989) Shasta (1989) Portable Concerto No.1 (1989) Recent Dreams (1988) Waltz No.70 (1988) Cartoons (1987) Aesop the Peasant (1987) Serenade No.2 (1987) In the Stars (1985) Morning Sonata (1985) Saxophone Quintet (1984) A Slash of Blue (1984) Montana Suite (1984) The Smiling Spider (1983) Nostos (1982) Ebben, ne andro lontano (1982) Stone Quartet (1982) Cantilena (1981) Three Dark Paintings (1981) Three Magical Places (1979) Etude Poetique (1979) Beowulf A Pageant (1979) Personae (1978) Seven Pollock Paintings (1978) Clarinia (1977) Postcard Sonatas (1977) Ides Book III (1977) Ides Book II (1975) Ides Book I (1974) Soliloquy No.9 for clarinet (1977) Soliloquy No.8 for bassoon (1977) Soliloquy No.7 for bass (1977) Soliloquy No.6 for cello (1977) Soliloquy No.5 for voice (1977) Soliloquy No.4 for oboe (1976) Soliloquy No.3 for flute (1976) Soliloquy No.2 for horn (1976) Soliloquy No.1 for soprano sax (1976) Dorn Music Publication Sonata for Guitar (1972) ORCHESTRA/CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Ozma (1996) Mirabell Jam (1992) Serenade No.1: Far in the Night (1983) Dances from the Sacred Harp (1983) Hadjidakis Suite (1983) Cantilena (1983) Scenes from Redon (1982) Sweet Alchemy (1980) The Death of Narcissus (1980) orchestra/YRM ASCAP Grants to Young Composers Award Clarinet Rhapsody (1979) MUSIC FOR RADIO Poets in Person (1991) MUSIC FOR FILM Luce, Tempo, Roma! (2000) Voices from Sandover (1991) Night Life (1988) The Wolf at the Door (1987) film/orchestra The Trouble with Dick (1986) WIND/JAZZ ENSEMBLES Rivers in the Sky (1988) Broken Arrows (1986) THEATER & MUSIC THEATER Voices from Sandover (1989) OjackieO! (1987) Pornographia (1982) YRM = Yelton Rhodes Music Publishers, Los Angeles,
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