Harry Newton Redman
Harry Newton Redman (December 26, 1869 - December 26, 1958) was an American composer, writer, and artist, born in Mount Carmel, Illinois. He wrote mainly chamber music, including five string quartets, and some songs. He was also active as a painter, and wrote a musical dictionary.
He studied under George Chadwick at the New England Conservatory. Chadwick hired him as a professor in piano and composition in 1898, a position he held until his retirement in 1940.[1] He became a member of the Handel and Haydn Society in 1890.[2] Jesús María Sanromá[3] and Elliot Griffis[4] were among his students.
His music was first commercially recorded in 2013.[5] There is an extant recording of an excerpt of his Creole String Quartet from a 1938 broadcast played by the Forum String Quartet of Boston for the "Works Progress Administration Presents" radio programs, part of the Federal Music Project.[6][7]
During the 1900s he amassed a large collection of American Impressionist art, including works by Edmnund Tarbell, Willard Metcalf, Charles Davis, George Lorenzo Noyes, William McGregor Paxton, and Louis Kronberg.[8] Samuel Burtis Baker painted his portrait.[9] He began painting in the 1920s; his own paintings were exhibited throughout the U.S. northeast during and after his life, including at the 1930 Carnegie International.[10][11] In 1933 the Museum of Fine Arts purchased his landscape The Ridge.[12] In a Redman exhibit at the Childs Gallery a few years after his death, Boston Globe art critic noted: "Redman's was a personal art, blending with real fascination the sophisticated theorist and the technically naieve."[13]
Selected compositions
[edit]- Two Pieces for organ, op. 7 (Pastorale, Prelude and Fugue)[14]
- Album of 14 songs for high voice (published 1903 by White, Smith, & Co)[15]
- When Stars are in the Quiet Skies
- Ask Me No More
- The Two Rivers
- Weep not!
- To Daphne
- A Vain Desire
- If Only Thou Art True
- If Love were what the Rose Is
- A Little Dutch Garden
- At Twilight
- Heaven
- April-tide
- If I But Knew
- O Let Me Die A-Singing
- Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor, op. 16 (published 1903 by White, Smith, & Co)[16]
- Sonata for Violin and Piano in D, op. 17[17]
- The Disappointed Snow-Flakes, song[18]
- Eileen aroon, song[19]
- String Quartet "Creole"
- The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Kahn, song[20]
Textbooks
[edit]- A Pronouncing Dictionary of Musical Terms, Boston, Knight & Millet (1901)
- Redman's Musical Dictionary and Pronouncing Guide, Theodore Presser Company (1910)
References
[edit]- ^ Yellin, Victor Fell (1990). Chadwick: Yankee Composer. University of Michigan. pp. 30, 48, 64.
- ^ Perkins, Charles C.; Dwight, John S. (1893). History of the Handel and Haydn Society. Volume I from the Foundation of the Society through its Seventy-Fifth Season. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son. pp. (60).
- ^ Hernandez, Alberto (2008). Jesus Maria Sanroma: An American Twentieth-Century Pianist. Scarecrow Press. p. 43.
- ^ "Elliot Griffis - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
- ^ Reetz, Brian (June 28, 2013). "UNL professor delves into archives in Boston, releases new CD". Lincoln Journal Star. pp. G13.
- ^ Jk Stevenson (2013-04-11). Harry Newton Redman: "Creole" String Quartet: Allegretto movement. Retrieved 2024-07-16 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Works Progress Administration Presents, 1937-1938 - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries". David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
- ^ Coburn, F. W. (January 1911). "New England Impressionists in the Redman Collection". New England Magazine. XLIII (4): 437.
- ^ "Exhibition of Portraits. Choice Collection by Samuel Burtis Baker in Copeley Gallery Shows Fine Work of Artist". Boston Globe. November 28, 1910. p. 11.
- ^ "Unknown". Art and Archeology: 177. 1912.
- ^ Lehre, Florence Weiben (October 26, 1930). "Artists and Their Work". Oakland Tribune. p. 51.
- ^ Sherman, Marjorie W. (October 30, 1957). "Musician's Paintings on Exhibit to Aid Hospital, Conservatory". Boston Globe. p. 41.
- ^ Driscoll Jr., Edgar J. (April 5, 1964). "Newbury St. Shows 'Painting Cousins'". Boston Globe. p. 128.
- ^ Henderson, John (1996). A Directory of Composers for Organ. University of Michigan. ISBN 9780952805007.
- ^ Redman, Harry Newton (1903). Album of 14 songs. for high voice. Boston: White-Smith Music.
- ^ Newman, William S. (1969). A History of the Sonata Idea, Volume 3: The Sonata Since Beethoven. The University of North Carolina Press. pp. 746, 771. ISBN 978-1-4696-4374-8.
- ^ Neely, David C; Herbener, Catherine (2013). Boston Circa 1900 (CD). Albany Records.
- ^ Redman, Harry N. (1900). Cole, Samuel W. (ed.). The Silver Song Series, Number 3: Songs for One and Two Voices for 3rd and 4th Grades. Silver, Burdett & Co. p. 32.
- ^ Redman, Harry Newton (1920). Eileen aroon. Boston: Redman.
- ^ Redman, Harry Newton (1930). The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Kahn. Boston: Riker, Brown and Wellington.
General references
- Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
- The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, four volumes, edited by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock (1923–2007) and Stanley Sadie (1930–2005), Macmillan Press, London (1986)
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Eighth edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995), Macmillan Publishing Co., New York (1992)
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians, by Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995), Schirmer Books, New York (1997)
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
- 1869 births
- 1958 deaths
- American male composers
- American composers
- 19th-century American painters
- American male painters
- 20th-century American painters
- 20th-century American male artists
- New England Conservatory faculty
- Musicians from Illinois
- Painters from Illinois
- 19th-century American male artists
- American composer, 19th-century birth stubs