Gloria Coates (Gloria Kannenberg)

Wausau East High School

Class of 1951

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First Name	Gloria
Last Name	Coates
Maiden Name	Kannenberg
Graduation Year	Class of 1951
Gender	Female
City	N/A
State/Province
Country	Germany
Occupation	composer of serious music
Married	No
Favorite School Memory	Mr. Yelich explaining football to us in history class...using the board and jumping up and down with excitement..
About Me	ï¿½Gloria Coates has created symphonies with the compelling intellectual and expressive power equal to the great symphonic composers of the Old World, but with the vivid imagination and freedom of an artist from America.ï¿½ Rheinischer Merkur, Germany, H. Malcomess The widely acclaimed first recording of Gloria Coatesï¿½ ï¿½Music on Open Stringsï¿½ ï¿½Symphony No. 1ï¿½was voted along with Philip Glassï¿½ ï¿½Satyagrahaï¿½ and Berioï¿½s ï¿½Sinfoniaï¿½ as one of the 10 finalists for the 1986 International Koussevitzsky Award (KIRA). Composed in 1973, it was premiered on the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 1978 by the Polish Chamber Orchester under Jerzy Maksymiuk, and proclaimed throughout the press as the high point of the festival for its originality. The recording here is from a live Musica Viva Concert in Munich in 1980 performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Elgar Howarth. It is is witness to the first time in the 35 year history of Musica Viva that an orchestral work by a woman composer was performed on that important series. "Gloria Coates is one of the most startlingly individual figures on the contemporary music scene. Most superficially, she is the most prolific female symphonist in history. More significantly, she has made a career out of the slow glissando in orchestral and ensemble music. To avoid caricature, this latter point requires amplification. The elements of Coatesï¿½s music are generally few in number, easily described, often odd, and oddly combined, giving her music an instantly recognizable profile. One recurring element is slow string glissandos. Another is wavery textures of faster glissandos, at varying rates. Another is conventionally tonal chorale writing, often quoting previous music. Another is simple, even marchlike rhythmic patterns, sometimes offset within her favorite 5/4 meter. The essence of Coatesï¿½s music is not any one of these elements, but their juxtaposition and combination sometimes even their indistinguishable fusion into some of the strangest textures in recent music. She brings together the straight and the curved, the familiar and the weird, the hard-edged and the vague, the tonal and the beyond-atonal, and sets us down in musical landscapes which disallow our usual figure-ground experiences of focusing within a musical texture." Quotation from 'Gloria Coates and the Fusion of Irreconcilables' by Kyle Gann Having lived in Europe for the past 3 decades, it is only in recent years that her music has reached a larger audience, primarily by past live performances now being heard on major labels such as Naxos and cpo. Her most recent disc with her ï¿½Symphony No. 15ï¿½ climbed to No. 1 on the EMusic downloading charts in all categories last February. Gloria Coatesï¿½ music has been praised in such publications as ï¿½The Wireï¿½ being 3 times on the best of the year lists, the ï¿½New York Timesï¿½, ï¿½Los Angeles Timesï¿½, ï¿½BBC Music Magazineï¿½ with 5 stars, ï¿½Village Voiceï¿½ with Pick Hit, Gramophone, Criticsï¿½ Choice on ï¿½Billboard Magazineï¿½ , ï¿½Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungï¿½, among others. Born in Wausau, Wisconsin, Gloria Coates began composing at an early age, winning a National Federation of Music Clubs Composition Contest at the age of twelve. After earning a Masters of Music Degree in Composition at Louisiana State University, she continued postgraduate studies in composition at Columbia University with Otto Luening and Jack Beeson. From 1975 to 1983 she taught for the University of Wisconsinï¿½s International Programs and initiated the music program in London and Munich. Gloria Coates has been invited to lecture on her music with concerts at Harvard, Brown, Princeton, the University of Wisconsin Madison (with master-classes), Torun, Poland, the College of Music Munich, and in India at the Max Mueller Bavahns of New Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay. Her music has been heard at the Dresden Festival, New Music America - New York 1989, the Passau International Festival, the Dartington Festival in England, the Montepulciano Festival Italy, the New York Microtonal Festival, Aspeckte Festival Salzburg, and at the March Music - Berlin Festival 2004 and others. The music of Gloria Coates has been performed by leading soloists and ensembles, such as the Kronos Quartet, the Kreuzer Quartet, Crash Ensemble Dublin, New Century Chamber Orchestra - San Francisco, City of London Sinfonia, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Munich Chamber Orchestra, and the Polish Chamber Orchestra, Her canon of work includes compositions for orchestra, with fifteen symphonies, chamber music, of which there are nine string quartets, solo pieces, vocal and choral music for orchestra and ensembles, electronic works, as well as music for the theatre. check Wikipedia - Gloria Coa...(read more)