Regina Hansen Willman
Regina Kastberg Hansen Willman (October 5, 1914 – October 28, 1965) was an American composer, born in Burns, Wyoming.[1] She married Allan Arthur Willman[2] in 1942; they divorced in 1956, but remained close throughout her life. Willman received a B.M. from the University of Wyoming in 1945, and a M.M. from the University of New Mexico in 1961. She studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College, Roy Harris at Colorado College,[3] and pursued further studies at the University of California, Berkeley, the Juilliard School, the Sorbonne, and the Lausanne Conservatory.[4] Willman was the resident composer of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, from 1956–57 and 1960-61. Her papers are archived at the University of Wyoming.[5]
Works
[edit]Regina Willman's compositions include:
Ballet
[edit]- Doves (piano)
- Legend of the Willow Plate (1949; chamber orchestra)
Orchestra
[edit]- Anchorage Symphony
- Design for Orchestra 1 (1948)
- Design for Orchestra 2 (1953)[6]
Piano
[edit]- Little Tailor Suite
- Steel Mill (1941; two pianos)[7]
- Three Compositions for Piano
Theatre
[edit]- Music for Medea (text by Euripides)
Vocal
[edit]- Ante Vero Longam (1961; tenor solo, men's chorus, oboe, and piano; text by Lambertus)
- Apres le Deluge (1961; high voice and piano; text by Arthur Rimbaud)
- First Holy Sonnet (voice and string trio; text by John Donne)[8]
- O Sleep Now (1956; medium voice and piano)
- Vocalise (voices and low strings)
References
[edit]- ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Hennessee, Don A. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
- ^ Pool, Jeannie G. (2009). American composer Zenobia Powell Perry : race and gender in the 20th century. Perry, Zenobia Powell. Lanham, Md. ISBN 978-0-8108-6376-7. OCLC 239233280.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Pfitzinger, Scott (March 2017). Composer genealogies : a compendium of composers, their teachers, and their students. Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-4422-7225-5. OCLC 961457738.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Results for 'au:Willman, Regina,' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ Division, New York Public Library Music (1981). Bibliographic Guide to Music. G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-6961-0.
- ^ Phi, Phi Kappa (1941). Phi Kappa Phi Journal. Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
- ^ Stewart-Green, Miriam. (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8498-4. OCLC 6815939.
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