Robert hall lewis biography
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Robert hall lewis biography
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Robert Hall Lewis
Robert Hall Lewis (1926--1996) was born in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Baltimore where he taught at Goucher College and the Peabody Institute of Music and for many years served as Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore.
Robert Hall Lewis is highly regarded as a composer of large-scale symphonic works and chamber music. His earlier compositions were concerned with linear developmental processes using serial methods, but the ordered growth and evolution apparent in his music of the 1960s and 1970s reflect a change in style.
Beyond his basic predilection for inventive textures, unusual timbres, complex rhythms and rich harmony in a freely atonal context, Lewis sought new modes of expression in his works including spatial effects (Moto, Due madrigals), quotations (Alto Kantaten), taped sounds (whole songs in Nuance