Composer of the Week

Composer of the Week, Vol. I, Issue III – January 28, 2008

Name:  Christopher Rouse

Born:  1949, Baltimore, MD

Current post:  Professor of Composition, The Juilliard School

Previous post:  Professor of Music, Eastman School of Music

Publisher:  Boosey & Hawkes | Schott-Helicon

Suggested listening:  Flute Concerto

Quote:

I got the opportunity to know Mr. Bernstein only in the summer of 1989, although I had admired his work as composer, conductor, and musical evangelist for most of my life. He remains for me a figure of inestimable importance in the history of music, one whose passion for and commitment to his art was insurpassable, and his sudden death in October 1990 robbed us all of an almost superhuman musical giant.

-Christopher Rouse on Leonard Bernstein, discussing the third movement of Rouse’s Trombone Concerto