Ms. Cutler is the resident composer for Circus Flora and wrote the bouncy, whimsical score, suggestive of the cafe-jazz sound of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra).
As a founding member of the contemporary classical group Piano Circus, he commissioned and performed music by composers including Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Julia Wolfe.
To many people who have never been to China, myself among them, San Francisco's Chinatown — the oldest and one of the largest districts of its kind in North America — still largely represents Chinese culture, despite the popularity of films like Zhang Yimou's "Hero"; international tours by the country's top ballet, opera and circus companies; and the fame of Chinese composers like Tan Dun.
"Childhood" was depicted with Charles Wolseley's lively "Green-Eyed Dragon," Charles Ives's "Circus Band" and a lullaby that Gene Scheer, a composer and librettist, wrote for the first of the Gunns' five children.
(Chinen) Frank Carlberg (Saturday) Literary themes often provide inspiration for Mr. Carlberg, a pianist and composer; here he presents a song cycle, "Word Circus," for an ensemble with the singer Christine Correa, the saxophonist John O'Gallagher, the bassist Pascal Niggenkemper and the drummer Michael Sarin.
Jungr is still composing original material, but at the moment it is within the theatrical parameters of a children's musical, The Fabulous Flutterbys, with The Little Angel Puppet Theatre, which will open in May; and a collaboration with composer Jonathan Cooper on a show celebrating the 1920s circus star and first female tiger trainer Mabel Stark.
Our composer and Co-producer Miriam Cutler was and is the resident composer at Circus Flora so she watched Flora grow up.
Like many Soviet composers, he earned a living from film scores, cartoon scores, and circus pieces.
Despite rough weather a hardy audience liberally sprinkled with composers assembled to celebrate, and to hear Mr. Corigliano's Symphony No. 3, "Circus Maximus".
(da Fonseca-Wollheim Juilliard Orchestraa (Saturday) Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducts this 75th-birthday tribute to the eminent American composer John Corigliano, featuring his Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra and Symphony No. 3: "Circus Maximus" for large wind ensemble.
In 2002, the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers, which hands out some of France's most prestigious drama prizes, added a category for "circus arts".. BUT in the United States, the circus split.
