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First name: Betsy
Last name: Warren (Warren-Davies)
Dates:
Category: Quartet
Nationality: american
Opus name: Quartet for piano and strings no.1
Publisher: Wiscasset Music Publishing
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Information: Betsy Warren, a native of Massachusetts, comes from a musical family. Her mother, Warren's first singing teacher, was an opera singer trained in Italy and France. In the 1950's and 60's, Warren turned her early vocal training into a career performing with such well known conductors as Boris Goldovsky in Boston and Anthony Amato in New York. She also gave solo recitals in New York, Boston, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich, and London. Since then Warren has written widely for the voice. Four operas, numerous solos, and a half dozen choral pieces are valuable additions to soloists and groups seeking English-language pieces in the modern classical idiom. Warren began to compose at an early age. Her style matured under her studies with Nadia Boulanger, and with Aaron Copeland, Walter Piston, and Archibald Davison at Harvard University, where she received her MA in music in 1943. Following in the footsteps of her teacher, Walter Piston, and her New England compatriot, Charles Ives, she has developed and evolved a style that is sparse, lyric, and stylized. Her works have been performed in Boston and beyond. Her first opera, with a libretto inspired by O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi" and especially written by poet David McCord, has been performed at venues as diverse as The New Orleans Opera, Texas Christian University, and the Harvard Club of Boston. Her piece entitled "Jonah," written for baritone and string quartet, with English and German texts from the King James version and the Luther Bible, was first performed at the Royal College of Music in London in 1981.