Chevel Shepherd - Space Cowboy (The Voice Performance)

BLISS (Bliss) Arthur (b. 2 VIII 1891, London) - English composer. Muses educated at Pembroke College (Cambridge) and the King of London. musesCollege (composition class C. Stanford), also used the advice of R. Vaughan-Williams and G. Holst. He performed as a conductor (he toured in the USSR in 1956). In 1942-44 muses. hands. BBC radio companies. In 1953 he received the title of "Master of Music of Her Majesty the Queen." In the production. B. early period noticeable influence of the work of M. Ravel, then I. F. Stravinsky and The Six (fp. Quintet, rhapsody for 2 fp. And wooden instruments). The beginning of B.'s mature work connects with the creation of a wok. plays "Madam Noy" for soprano and instrur. ensemble (1918). Later he created compositions that attracted attention with the original manner of writing, new sounding techniques, and peculiar instrumentation: for example, in the play “Noisy Assembly” (“Rout”, 1919) for soprano and 10 wok instruments. the party is purely phonetic. value. Instrumentation experimentation,search for unusual sound colors and colors. effects are also typical of other works by B .: the cycle of programmed pieces for strings. and wooden tools. “Conversations” (“Conversation”, 1919), “Symphonies of colors” (“Color symphony”, 1922), etc.