Talk:Richard Bunger Evans
A fact from Richard Bunger Evans appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 July 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
|
This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page. |
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
April 2023 updates per Richard B. Evans notes to me
[edit]On 2/14/2023 Richard B. Evans created a Word document on Mac Office containing the edits that he wished to be published to Wikipedia.
The document was titled Wikipedia Complete Feb 14, 2023 REVISION 002 and the author was Richard B. Evans in the metadata.
The edits made by me are based entirely on notes prepared by Mr. Evans for removal or inclusion to his Biography. Composer2112 (talk) 19:20, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Anybody is free to make edits here whether or not they are holding on to an unpublished document written by Evans himself. But everyone is also required to conform to Wikipedia's content policies and style guidelines. I'll keep an eye on the new changes and see if there are any concerns. Binksternet (talk) 19:34, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Here are my observations:
- Too many aliases listed in the first sentence, names that are not surprising or unusual. It's enough to list the main two.
- This sentence is not supported: "His compositions and musicals have been performed widely in the U.S. and in Europe."
- This sentence is not supported by a WP:SECONDARY source making an explicit connection: "Many students in this program entered the field professionally, including Marcus Ryle and Sig Knapstad." LinkedIn is not suitable as a citation.
- Discogs.com fails WP:USERG and cannot be cited. Binksternet (talk) 02:03, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for the observations -
- Regarding the many aliases provided by Mr. Evans - he is published under all of those aliases, therefore he believes his Wikipedia entry should include all the names and aliases his many works have been published under by various publishing firms. His name was Richard Bunger before he changed it to R.B. Evans. See Mr. Evans website bio for additional information https://www.richardbevans.com/Biography.html
- Mr. Evans affirms that "His compositions and musicals have been performed widely in the U.S. and in Europe." and he wishes for his biography to be stated in this way. While there is no definitive list of all the performances of works by Mr. Evans, he attests that his works have been performed throughout the U.S. and Europe - see https://www.richardbevans.com/RichardBungerEvans_music.html for additional details at bottom of page.
- In regards to "Many students in this program entered the field professionally, including Marcus Ryle and Sig Knapstad." Mr. Evans wishes to note the quality of the graduates that CSUDH EM&R produceed, such as Mr. Ryle and Mr. Knapstad.
- As founder of the EM&R program Mr. Evans believes these two notable graduates should be highlighted, demonstrate his (and EM&R's) impact on in the field of Electronic Music.
- The LinkedIn record is the only online professional record for Mr. Ryle, however there are interviews of Mr. Ryle at https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/marcus-ryle as well as https://www.discogs.com/artist/422706-Marcus-Ryle and https://www.kvraudio.com/interviews/building-the-ultimate-oberheim-an-interview-with-marcus-ryle-57310. Mr. Knapstad's publishing is noted at https://www.discogs.com/artist/4250392-Sigmund-Knapstad and entrepreneurship is evident in his LinkedIn profile:
- Senior Account Executive-Western U.S., Studio Network Solutions
- Previous: Chief Technology Officer at ALT Systems, "Powered by Cutting Edge Workflows" – a Media Systems Integrator providing technology solutions, professional services, and support to content creators nationwide. With offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and NYC, our clients include some of the most recognizable brands in media and entertainment, Fortune 500 corporations, as well as world-class sports organizations.
- As an influential adviser tasked with driving the company’s technology vision, I bring significant technical subject matter expertise, proven communication skills, and the ability to attract, retain and motivate top technical talent. I’m passionate about making the complex appear simple.
- My B.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Engineering positioned me to work in the Los Angeles and Hollywood recording scene. I was fortunate to work with several industry icons …..eventually becoming the Northwest Sales Manager for Digidesign (now Avid). After becoming the top sales revenue producer, I co-founded Cutting Edge. Initially based in San Francisco, but expanding with an office in Burbank, Cutting Edge merged with ALT Systems to become one of the top media and entertainment value-added resellers in the country.
- Some of my other passions include: National level race car driver and multi-championship winning kart driver, including winning Stars-of-Tomorrow. I’ve also been a piano player since the first grade and am still performing with my band as well as recording in my personal studio. I’m currently finishing a rock opera due to debut in the not-too-distant future.
- I understand the concern for UserG content. Please advise the best way to include a secondary source for these two professionals that Mr. Evans wishes to have included as there are no formal biographies published of these two men.
- We appreciate your edits, and hope you will consider the extra Alias's as well as the "widely performed" statement as these are true in fact. Composer2112 (talk) 19:17, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
- I am not moved by the fact that Richard greatly wishes to make changes to this article. Wikipedia is supposed to be a summary of published sources, and I don't see published sources supporting the assertions that Richard influenced Marcus Ryle or Sig Knapstad. We don't have a third party author or Ryle himself saying he was influenced by Richard. Same with Knapstad. Nor do we have third party observers saying that Richard's "compositions and musicals have been performed widely" in the world. (What is "widely" intended to mean in this context? Richard is not a popular composer. His music is performed far less than many other composers. It would be hyperbolic to claim wide performance.) Apparently, Richard considers his Wikpedia page to be something he can mold himself, in the same manner as his own website.
- My advice to Richard is to convince a journalist to compose and publish an in-depth piece about his career, which we can then cite. Binksternet (talk) 20:59, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
Full details of edits requested by R.B Evans - from MS Word document by his hand
[edit]Full details of edits requested by R.B Evans
|
---|
Please make the following corrections to my Wikipedia entry. Thank you. Richard B. Evans NOTE 1.[edit]• Existing material is printed in black or blue; • New material is printed in red.
NOTE 2.[edit]• Material NOTE 3.[edit]• The names of persons and things with already-existing footnotes in the REFERENCES section at the end of the article are printed in Blue, underlined. NOTE 4.[edit]The names of person or things that are to be explained by REFERENCES below are printed in Blue, Black, or Red, and underlined, and followed by their related footnote/REFERENCE as described next in Note 5: NOTE 5.[edit]All new footnotes that are to be placed in the REFERENCES section at the end of the article are printed in <Green Type, underlined, italicized, and bracketed> OR in <Purple Type underlined, italicized, and bracketed> – and are to appear as numbered REFERENCES in the REFERENCES section following the article. -------------------------[edit]Richard Bunger Evans, also known as Richard B. Evans, Richard Evans, and Richard Bunger, (born 1942) is an American composer and pianist who worked with John Cage and subsequently wrote "the classic book on John Cage,"[1] The Well-Prepared Piano. Evans has composed and performed music for opera and musical theatre, piano, art songs, prepared piano, choral music, string orchestra and chamber music. Early career[edit]
Prepared piano[edit]While teaching at Queens University, The Bungerack[edit]In 1973, Evans devised a way for pianists to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Slonimsky>, Dane Rudhyar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dane_Rudhyar> and others at the April 1973 music convocation called "The Expanded Ear", which culminated in the Six-Acre Jam, a piece in which 60 musicians played at various positions among the trees on a mountain slope.[13] In May 1973, Evans performed live in the radio studio for Charles Amirkhanian's Other Minds radio program; Evans played compositions from Cage, Henry Cowell, Harold Budd, and E. T. Paull, and a recording of his piano and tape interpretation of a Morton Subotnick piece.[14] Concert pianist[edit]Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Evans toured in North America and Europe in support of music by 20th century American composers. His concerts took him to college and university campuses from Maine to San Diego, from Toronto to Florida, as well as to Paris, Berlin, London, and Oslo, and many venues between. He performed concerti as piano soloist with the Ensemble instrumental de musique-contemporaine de Paris, < https://www.discogs.com/artist/379513- Ensemble-Instrumental-de-Musique-Contemporaine> the Denver Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, National Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony, with whom he recorded, for Columbia Masterworks, AKWAN, a concerto he had commissioned with his grant from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music <https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6dk2380 from Black composer Olly Wilson < https://www.muziekweb.nl/en/Link/U00002744525/CLASSICAL/Akwan>. In 1980 he recorded a complete album of prepared piano pieces Prepared Piano: The First 40 Years for the Musical Heritage Society < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Heritage_Society>. In 1982 a chronic illness forced him to leave the field of music.[15] For his final public concert Evans performed Cage’s FOUR WALLS <https://www.discogs.com/master/119757-John-Cage-Richard-Bunger- Jay-Clayton-Four-Walls> in Minneapolis-St.Paul during a Festival celebrating John Cage’s 70th birthday.
Early Compositions[edit]While accompanying vocal students as an undergraduate at Oberlin, Evans was smitten with art songs < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_song>, and began composing in that genre. His love of vocal music grew into compositions for choirs and vocal ensembles, including JIUTA, settings of classic Haiku for female “speech choir” with vocal solo, guitar, small drum, and recorder or shakuhachi, that has been performed in the U.S. and Europe. His several compositions for prepared piano, including Three Bolts out of the Blues, were published by Highgate Press < https://books.google.com/books/about/Three_bolts_out_of_the_blues.html?id=IK47AQAAIAAJ> . While on concert tour, he recorded his compositions for piano and electronics for the BBC, Radio Oslo, ORTF, and Radio Free Europe. Compositions After 1990[edit]In 1990 Evans returned to music and added “Evans” as his surname. He began to compose in more traditional genres such as musical theatre, opera, pop songs, and oratorio rather than in avant-garde styles.[16] For the 1991 Grove Play entitled Tyburn Fair, Evans worked with a libretto from Bohemian Donald L. Winks to compose the
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squire_Fridell>.
Musicals[edit]In 2000, Evans moved to New York City and was selected for membership in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop < https://www.bmi.com/theatre_workshop>.
(NOTE: how can we find the date this review was published? – to make a footnote here... Caption would have been “Chicago's Stages Festivals of New Musicals”)[edit](THIS PARAGRAPH MOVED AND EDITED BELOW (THIS PARAGRAPH MOVED AND EDITED BELOW, DATE CHANGED TO 2006: [edit] |
- Wikipedia Did you know articles
- Biography articles of living people
- Start-Class biography articles
- Start-Class biography (musicians) articles
- Unknown-importance biography (musicians) articles
- Musicians work group articles
- WikiProject Biography articles
- Start-Class Lehigh Valley articles
- Low-importance Lehigh Valley articles
- WikiProject Lehigh Valley articles
- Start-Class Composers articles
- WikiProject Composers articles
- WikiProject Classical music articles