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Ernie Stires (1925-2008) - American Composer

http://www.erniestires.com

A tribute to Ernie Stires, American composer and noted mentor of Trey Anastasio of Phish.

• Added on: Jun 4th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: erniestires
• Listed in: Musicians and Bands Classical
• Tags: vermont swing phish atonal trey anastasio musical composition

Recent Posts

• A brief history of the piano.

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 20:30 in news, quotes, classical music, writings, biographical, library of congress, middlebury college, ernie stires, nicholas slonimsky, stephanie rogers

  During my recent trip to Washington DC, I spent an afternoon digging through the Nicholas Slonimsky Collection at the Library of Congress to see if I could find evidence of correspondence between Ernie Stires and his beloved mentor.  Along with one ...

• A gift to share: Louise Homer and family

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 20:29 in news

  Ernie Stires came from a prestigious lineage of musicians. Ernie’s cousin was legendary American composer Samuel Barber,  widely known for his piece Adagio For Strings (or Agnus Dei, for voices arranged by the composer). Louise Homer, Ernie...

• Music for humanity

  Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 21:09 in quotes, lifelong learning, biographical, early childhood education, progressive education, musiciancorps, ernie stires, louise homer, my wife and i, sidney homer

  ” Every child should have an opportunity to learn to play some musical instrument and should be taught to sing. All schools, including the lower grades, should have teachers of music of high standard. For children with special aptitude for mu...

• Recommended lecture: The Symphony

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 11:54 in news, classical music, orchestra, ttc, biographical, composing, mel brooks, recommended listening, the teaching company, barber's symphony no. 1, dr. robert greenberg, ives' symphony no. 4

  I have to quickly remark on a 24-part lecture series I’ve been thoroughly enjoying entitled, “The Symphony” by Robert Greenberg, Ph.D. and distributed by The Teaching Company. With an energetic and entertaining delivery (think Mel B...

• Making what is old, new again.

  Posted on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 17:06 in NPR, composing, joan baez, house of the rising sun, wolfgang amadeus mozart, where have all the flowers gone, twinkle twinkle little star, mark o'connor, john duarte, sharon isbin, musical hooks

  While listening to NPR’s review of guitarist Sharon Isbin’s latest release Journey to the New World the other day, I was reminded of something Ernie once suggested during a discussion on the composer’s role in popular music. Isbin...

• Ernie’s Muse

  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 10:59 in inspiration, vermont, bette davis, muse, biographical, seven days, composing, tallulah bankhead, ernie stires, ruth horowitz

  “My muse is a combination of Tallulah Bankhead and Bette Davis,” he drawls. “She smokes and she drinks and she’s sore [...]...

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