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Douglas Townsend, Composer

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American composer, musicologist and native New Yorker Douglas Townsend was still actively composing, teaching, writing and producing concerts until just days before his death in Manhattan at age 90, on August 1, 2012. After graduating from Manhattan's famed High School of Music and Art , he privately studied composition with a succession of well-known composers of the day: Tibor Serly, Stefan Wolpe (five years), Aaron Copland (on a scholarship to Tanglewood), Otto Luening (on two sch...

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Top Compositions

Chosen by most performances

1.	Four Fantasies on American Folk Songs for Piano Four-Hands

2.	Fantasy on All the Pretty Little Horses for String Orchestra

3.	8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in Eight Movements

4.	Six Fantasies on Christmas Carols for Piano Four-Hands

5.	Sonatina for Flute and Piano

6.	Ave Maria for Voice, Clarinet and Piano

7.	8 x 8: Dance Improvisation and Fugue for Flute/Piccolo/Recorder and Piano

8.	The Ridgefield Rag for Piano Four-Hands

9.	Ballet Suite for 3 Clarinets

10.	Chamber Concerto no 2 for Trombone and Strings

Events

The Ridgewood Singers: Winter Concert

2 Dec 2018

First Presbyterian Church of Ridgewood

Lexington Pops Chorus: Winter 2019 Concert

18 Jan 2019

Hancock United Church of Christ

Lexington Pops Chorus: Winter 2019 Concert

19 Jan 2019

Hancock United Church of Christ

Videos

Douglas Townsend's CHAMBER CONCERTO NO. 2 FOR TROMBONE AND STRINGS (1959)

Douglas Townsend - Four Fantasies on American Folk Songs

Douglas Townsend's BALLET SUITE FOR THREE CLARINETS (1954)

Douglas Townsend's CANZONA (1950)

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Douglas Townsend's Fourth Annual Soci...

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This is a podcast with pictures of the Fourth Annual Social Networking Concert, curated...

Douglas Townsend Memorial Concert 9/1...

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This is a podcast with pictures of the All-Townsend Memorial Concert which was held in ...

Douglas Townsend's Third Annual Socia...

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This is a podcast of a live concert on April 24, 2012 at Saint Peter's Church in Manhat...

Music for a snowy winter's day

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A discussion/review by Leonard Bogat of "winter music," with video selections from four...

YouTube

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Here are two of Townsend's FANTASIES ON CHRISTMAS CAROLS for piano four-hands, performe...

YouTube

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Here are two of Townsend's FANTASIES ON CHRISTMAS CAROLS for piano four-hands, performe...

YouTube

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Here are two of Townsend's FANTASIES ON CHRISTMAS CAROLS, played by the piano duo of La...

ByLion--September 21

http://www.selu.edu/news_media/b...

Week in Performing Arts: An announcement of the lecture/recital by Dr. Kenneth Boulton...

Douglas Townsend

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My "jumbo" website containing all of my websites, music, bio, picture, etc. Good format...

Latest News of James & Susan McKeever

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Description of the program on January 21, 2009. where McKeever played two of Townsend's...

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