NAME: John Caldwell

BIRTH DATE/LOCATION:
1947, Rochester, New York

DEATH DATE/LOCATION:
January 13, 1995, Clarion, Pennsylvania


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  • IDENTIFICATION AND BIO:
    Composer, Art Curator, Music Critic

    Studied music, art and literature at Allegheny College
    Composition studies with Harold Boatrite

    Longtime staff member, University of the Arts, Philadelphia (1971-1994)

    John Caldwell composed works for orchestra, band, chorus, chamber ensembles, and solo marimba.

    His music was performed by the Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus, the Amado Quartet, Dorothy Stone with the National Association of American Composers and Conductors, and John DeLancie with the Mostovoy Soloists and the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, among others.

    In 1979 Caldwell took a one-year appointment as composer-in-residence with the Kane, Pennsylvania school system with support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

    He wrote music criticism for the newspaper Philadelphia After Dark, and was a longtime staff member at the University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of Art).

    John Caldwell died of AIDS in Clarion, Pennsylvania at the age of 47 on January 13, 1995.

    —Nurit Tilles

    WORKS:

    CHAMBER

    Romance for Oboe and Strings (original version)
    for: oboe and string quartet
    date: 1973-74
    duration: 8:00
    premiere: Dorothy Stone, oboe, National Association for Composers and Conductors, Philadelphia 10/12/75
    note: see also transcription for oboe and string orchestra

    Romance for Oboe and Strings (transcription)
    for: oboe and string orchestra
    date: ?
    duration: 8:00
    premiere: John DeLancie, oboe, Mostovoy Soloists, Marc Mostovoy, conductor, Philadelphia 1/26/76
    source: Free Library of Philadelphia

    INSTRUMENTAL

    Suite for Solo Marimba
    performed: 1994

    CHORAL

    Swift Illusions
    for: men's chorus
    date: ?
    text: ?
    performed: Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus, December 1994

    UNCOMPLETED WORKS:
    Unknown

    WRITINGS:
    Music reviews for Philadelphia After Dark.

    DISCOGRAPHY:
    No professionally released recordings

    BIBLIOGRAPHY:

    • Obituary, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 17, 1995.

    PERFORMING RIGHTS AFFILIATION:
    Unknown

    RESOURCES:
    Unknown

    MUSICAL EXECUTOR:
    Unknown

    OTHER CONTACTS:
    Unknown

    ARCHIVES:
    Unknown

     


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