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Anne LeBaron Wikipedia

Anne LeBaron (b. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 1953) is an United States composer and harpist.

She holds a B.A. in music from the University of Alabama (1974), an M.A. in music from the State University of New York, Stony Brook (1978), and a D.M.A. from Columbia University (1989). She studied with Gy??rgy Ligeti as a Fulbright Scholar at the K??ln Musikhochschule in 1980-81 and also studied Korean traditional music at the National Classical Music Institute of Korea in Seoul (1983).

LeBaron began teaching at the California Institute of the Arts in 2001 and previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh. She composes for the Anne LeBaron Quintet, an ensemble comprising harp, trumpet, tuba, electric guitar, and percussion.

Writing about LeBaron's 1989 Telluris Theoria Sacra (for flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion, and piano), musicologist Susan McClary notes that the work "...points to LeBaron's more pervasive interest in music's ability to mold temporality, immersing the listener in a sound world in which time bends, stands still, dances, or conforms to the mechanical measure of the clock." (liner notes)

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