User:T. E. Meeks/Vera Nicolaevna Preobrajenska

Vera Nicolaevna Preobrajenska (27 Apr 1926 - 25 Jun 2011) (D) was an American arranger, composer, music educator, and writer whose family background was Russian. She composed in many genres, including ballet and opera. (A)

Preobrajenska was born in San Francisco (J) to Tatiana N. Kasperovich and Nicholas A. Preobrajenska. (G) She studied composition with Ernest Bloch,(I) Ernest von Dohnanyi, Frederick Jacobi, Darius Milhaud, Dmitri Shostakovich, Roger Sessions, and Alexander Tcherepnin. (T) Her educational background and job history included:

1950 piano debut (E)

[no date] AA from University of California at Berkeley (G)

1953 BA San Francisco State State University (E)

1956-61 concert manager for Musical Artists of America (F)

1964 musical stenographer at Berkeley Music Center Record Company (G)

1964 arranged songs at Skye Music Services (Oakland, CA) (G)

1965-68 classroom pianist for ballet and modern dance at University of California Berkeley (G)

1972 MA Bernadean University (Las Vegas, Nevada) (E)

1972-74 chaired the music department at Bernadean University (A)

1973 PHD Bernadean University (E)

1974-75 honorary director of music at Santa Cruz Academy of Music (A)

The National League of American Pen Women awarded Preobrajenska two composition prizes.(F) Her papers are archived at the University of Wyoming.(B) Her music was published by Belwin, Inc. (C) and American Music Center. (K) Her works include:

Band

Mazurka (A)

Patriotic March: Spirit of 1976 (A)

Ballet

Clara Militch (piano) (A)

Hebraic Rhapsody (string orchestra) (A)

Chamber

Clarinet Quintet (A)

Piano Quintet (A)

Rondino (guitar)(H)

Sonata in Three Movements (flute) (A)

String Quartets (three) (A)

Opera

The Money Lender (F)

Orchestra

Blue Symphony (A)

Third Symphony (A)

Organ

Fugue in a minor (A)

Preludium (A)

Piano

Etudes I, II, and III (A)

Sonata

Prose

poems in Ram Magazine (A)

Song Writers Course, Parts I and II (A)

Vocal

Cycle of English Art Songs (A)

Cycle of Russian Art Songs (A)

Easter Prayer (mixed chorus) (A)

Hebraic Cantata (mixed chorus and chamber orchestra) (A)

Ode to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (A)

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