Edward Green
Edward Green, Ph.D., is an active scholar in the field of musicology, and a prize-winning composer. Among his published works are The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington, and China and the West: the Birth of a New Music (Shanghai Conservatory Press).
Dr. Green has been a professor at Manhattan School of Music since 1984, where he teaches ethnomusicology, music history, and composition. Since 1980, he has likewise been on the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, where he teaches an ongoing course in musical aesthetics, "The Opposites in Music."
From 1974-1978, he had the honor to study with Eli Siegel, the great American poet and scholar who founded the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism in 1941.
His Ph.D. (2008) is from New York University, with a thesis titled Chromatic Completion in the Late Vocal Music of Haydn and Mozart. In 2009 Dr. Green was named a Fulbright Senior Specialist by CIES, and in the summer of 2010 gave a summer semester doctoral seminar at the Pontifical University of Argentina (Buenos Aires) on the music of John Cage and of Duke Ellington.
Over the years, Edward Green has given papers at conventions of the American Society of University Composers, the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Society for American Music, and the College Music Society—among other scholarly organizations. The subjects have ranged from the life of Felix Mendelssohn to the music of the medieval troubadour Marcabru; from irregular hypermeter in the Beatles to a comparison of the avant-garde procedures of Beethoven and Scelsi; from the impact of Buddhist thought on the music of Zhou Long to the philosophic implications of Mahler's Sixth Symphony.
In 2004, Edward Green participated in the first International Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, (University of Graz, Austria). His presentation, coauthored with anthropologist Arnold Perey, was titled “Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology.” He has since given many addresses on the value of Aesthetic Realism, including his 2015 talk "Duke Ellington, Aesthetic Realism, and New York City"--hosted by the Museum of the City of New York. In more recent months, he has been a guest lecturer at the University of Bologna, at Zagreb's Academy of Music, and at the "Great American Brass Band Festival" in Danville, Kentucky. In these talks, Dr. Green has spoken about the tremendous importance of Eli Siegel's understanding of how Art and Life explain each other: "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." This grand principle, Edward Green has said informs and impels all his work as scholar and as composer.
Dr. Green's music has been performed across the United States and internationally--including by orchestras in Russia, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Australia, and England. He received first place in the International Kodály Composers Competition for his Brass Quintet and a Delius Award for his Genesis Variations (guitar). In 2004, he was awarded a Music Alive! grant jointly sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer, and through that grant became Composer-in-Residence for the InterSchool Orchestras of New York for the 2004-5 season.
Among his current projects is a commission by the Orchestra of the Swan (Stratford, England) for a Viola Concerto featuring the noted virtuoso Paul Silverthorne. Edward Green is also staff composer for Imagery Films, whose director is the Emmy award–winning filmmaker Ken Kimmelman. Among their films is What Does a Person Deserve?--recipient of a Silver CINDY. In 2005 Imagery Films released Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana, based on Eli Siegel’s Nation prize-winning poem and has a score by Dr. Green. It has garnered several prestigious awards, including the "Grand Festival Award in the Arts" from the Berkeley Film and Video Festival.
Dr. Green's music is available on several labels. Albany Records, for example, has released his Concerto in C for Trumpet and Orchestra, and his Quartet for Guitars; Arizona University Recordings, his Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Strings, and Sextet for Alto Saxophone and Brass; the North/South Consonance Records label, his Clarinet Concerto, and his Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra. This last work garnered two Grammy nominations: Best Classical Contemporary Composition, and another for Helen Lin's performance as the piano soloist.
Phone: (212) 529-7745
Address: 208 East Broadway
Apt J-1007
New York, NY 10002
Dr. Green has been a professor at Manhattan School of Music since 1984, where he teaches ethnomusicology, music history, and composition. Since 1980, he has likewise been on the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, where he teaches an ongoing course in musical aesthetics, "The Opposites in Music."
From 1974-1978, he had the honor to study with Eli Siegel, the great American poet and scholar who founded the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism in 1941.
His Ph.D. (2008) is from New York University, with a thesis titled Chromatic Completion in the Late Vocal Music of Haydn and Mozart. In 2009 Dr. Green was named a Fulbright Senior Specialist by CIES, and in the summer of 2010 gave a summer semester doctoral seminar at the Pontifical University of Argentina (Buenos Aires) on the music of John Cage and of Duke Ellington.
Over the years, Edward Green has given papers at conventions of the American Society of University Composers, the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Society for American Music, and the College Music Society—among other scholarly organizations. The subjects have ranged from the life of Felix Mendelssohn to the music of the medieval troubadour Marcabru; from irregular hypermeter in the Beatles to a comparison of the avant-garde procedures of Beethoven and Scelsi; from the impact of Buddhist thought on the music of Zhou Long to the philosophic implications of Mahler's Sixth Symphony.
In 2004, Edward Green participated in the first International Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, (University of Graz, Austria). His presentation, coauthored with anthropologist Arnold Perey, was titled “Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology.” He has since given many addresses on the value of Aesthetic Realism, including his 2015 talk "Duke Ellington, Aesthetic Realism, and New York City"--hosted by the Museum of the City of New York. In more recent months, he has been a guest lecturer at the University of Bologna, at Zagreb's Academy of Music, and at the "Great American Brass Band Festival" in Danville, Kentucky. In these talks, Dr. Green has spoken about the tremendous importance of Eli Siegel's understanding of how Art and Life explain each other: "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." This grand principle, Edward Green has said informs and impels all his work as scholar and as composer.
Dr. Green's music has been performed across the United States and internationally--including by orchestras in Russia, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Australia, and England. He received first place in the International Kodály Composers Competition for his Brass Quintet and a Delius Award for his Genesis Variations (guitar). In 2004, he was awarded a Music Alive! grant jointly sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer, and through that grant became Composer-in-Residence for the InterSchool Orchestras of New York for the 2004-5 season.
Among his current projects is a commission by the Orchestra of the Swan (Stratford, England) for a Viola Concerto featuring the noted virtuoso Paul Silverthorne. Edward Green is also staff composer for Imagery Films, whose director is the Emmy award–winning filmmaker Ken Kimmelman. Among their films is What Does a Person Deserve?--recipient of a Silver CINDY. In 2005 Imagery Films released Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana, based on Eli Siegel’s Nation prize-winning poem and has a score by Dr. Green. It has garnered several prestigious awards, including the "Grand Festival Award in the Arts" from the Berkeley Film and Video Festival.
Dr. Green's music is available on several labels. Albany Records, for example, has released his Concerto in C for Trumpet and Orchestra, and his Quartet for Guitars; Arizona University Recordings, his Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Strings, and Sextet for Alto Saxophone and Brass; the North/South Consonance Records label, his Clarinet Concerto, and his Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra. This last work garnered two Grammy nominations: Best Classical Contemporary Composition, and another for Helen Lin's performance as the piano soloist.
Phone: (212) 529-7745
Address: 208 East Broadway
Apt J-1007
New York, NY 10002
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