Paul Sperry: 为纪念

IN MEMORIAM: (1934–2024)

大学教师:
Vocal Arts: Related Studies in Vocal Arts: Vocal Literature

American lyric tenor Paul Sperry is that rarity in today’s musical world: a singer dedicated to preserving the song recital. Though his experience in opera extends from Monteverdi through 施托克豪森, he 继续s to devote much of his time to the programming 和 performance of songs from every country 和 every period of music.

Born in Chicago, Mr. Sperry started piano lessons at age five, graduated from 哈佛大学 College, 和 继续d his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He worked extensively with such masters of art-song interpretation as Pierre Bernac, 珍妮Tourel, 和 Paul Ulanowsky 和 studied acting with Stella Adler. This combination of liberal arts education, supreme musicianship, 和 dramatic flair contributed to what the 纽约时报 called “one of today’s leading song recitalists.” Sperry’s extraordinarily wide repertory includes songs, 室工作, 和 oratorios in fifteen languages 和 includes more than fifty works that have been written for him by many of today’s leading composers, both European 和 American . Among them are Beaser, Bolcom, Cipullo, Druckman, 哈根, Hundley, 拉森, Musto, 保卢斯, 兰德, 旧式大披肩, Henze, 施托克豪森, 和Maderna.

Among his recordings are four CDs of American songs for Albany Records; Bernard 兰德’s 坎蒂德尔索尔， which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for CRI; 和 the complete songs of Ives, which he recorded with three other singers for Albany Records. 最近, he has recorded a CD for Albany of four new song cycles by Tom Cipullo, 哈根达, 利比拉森, 和Paul Moravec. Zephyr Records has issued a CD of Poulenc songs with pianist Ian Hobson, as well as their CD entitled Great Composers Love Folksongs Too. 舒伯特的 Winterreise should be released in the very near future, 和 they have currently recorded a two-CD boxed set of French 旋律, which should be released next year. Mr. Sperry has edited numerous collections of American songs for G. Schirmer, Peer-Southern, Carl Fischer, 和 Dover Publications. 他的书 美国首歌 was issued last year by Oxford University Press.

今天,先生. Sperry is widely appreciated for his master classes at the University of Illinois, the Eastman School of Music, the Peabody Institute, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the Clevel和 Institute of Music, the University of Southern California, 哈佛大学, 和耶鲁大学, 等. Since 1984 he has taught nineteenth- 和 twentieth-century song repertory 和 performance at The Juilliard School, 和 he has created there what may be the country’s only full-year course in American song. He also teaches courses in American song at Manhattan School of Music in New York 和 in planning 和 preparing the song recital at Brooklyn College 和 Conservatory. He served on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival 和 School from 1978–2002; founded the vocal program at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan; 和 served as the director of the latter from 1991 to 1997. In 1987 he became the director of Joy In Singing, an organization dedicated to helping young singers 和 American composers 和 fostering the art song. He lives in New York City with his wife, sculptor Ann Sperry. They have three children.