Shulamit Ran (1949-)

confessed to being composer, teacher, wife, mother, and chocolate lover. Yet she also won a Pulitzer Prize and a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award for her Symphony. She has written in a number of genres, including opera.
Shulamit Ran won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for Symphony in 1991.
She served as Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1990-1997) and with the Lyric Opera of Chicago (1994-97). Her Symphony earned the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in Music and the 1992 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award; recent honors include a 1998 Koussevitsky Foundation Grant.
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/R/Ran,_Shulamit/

Tofu SoyRizo Scrambler

  • 1/2 onion (or two green onions) chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • spalsh of olive oil
  • 1 medium block o’ tofu, chopped or crumbled
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric
  • 1/8 tsp cumin
  • 2 Tbs Braggs sauce (or soy sauce)
  • 1/2 package soyrizo
  • Optional mushrooms, spinach, chard or other scambled egg-type items

Combine onions, garlic and oil and saue until the onions are translucent. Add everything else and saute until rizo is defrosted or tofu is lightly seared. (soy rizo is much easier to remove from the plastic when it is frozen…) Cook till moisture has gone away. 2 or more servings.
This is high in protein and is a complete protein group. Great for vegan-atkins weirdos or other folks looking for extra protein. Good for any meal, not just breakfast. Heck, I just had it for dinner and it was yummy.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich b. 1939

Studied at Florida State and the Julliard School
She was elected to the Florida Artists Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 1995, was named to to the first Composer’s Chair in the history of Carnegie Hall. � Musical America designated her the 1999 Composer of the Year.
Ellen Zwilich is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Music (the first woman ever to receive this coveted award), the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Chamber Music Prize, the Arturo Toscanini Music Critics Award, the Ernst von Dohnanyi Citation, and Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Grammy nominations, and, among other distinctions, she was designated Musical America’s Composer of the Year in 1999.
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/Z/Zwillich,_Ellen_Taaffe/

Joan Tower b. 1938

  • born in 1938, New Rochelle, NY.
  • spent her childhood in South America
  • studied at Bennington College, Vermont (1958-61); Columbia University (MA – 1967, DMA – 1978).
  • In 1969, founded Da Capo Chamber Players; won Naumburg Award for Chamber music in 1973.
  • Taught at Bard College in Annadale0on-Hudson starting in 1972.
  • Was Composer-in-Residence of the St. Louis Symphony from 1985 to 1987.
  • Received numberous fellowships including a Guggenheim (1976), a Koussevitsky Foundation grant (1982), several NEH fellowships, and the prestigious Grawemeyer Award (1990).

cut and pasted from: http://www.emory.edu/MUSIC/ARNOLD/JTOWER.HTM
writes for chamber and orchestra
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/T/Tower,_Joan/

Ruth Crawford Seeger 1901-1953

developed “heterophony” – a new style of dissonance that won her acclaim as a prophetic composer
joined the proletarian music movement in New York during the great depression and started doing folk songs instead of avate gaurde
returned to dissonance shortly before her death
Her masterpeice is String Quartet (1931)
Pioneered the use of folk songs in Children’s music education
Critics said she could “sling dissonances like a man”
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/S/Seeger,_Ruth_Crawford/

i am so absolutely and completely not making this up. it’s from scott’s
“webster’s new world dictionary” AND “onelookup.com” AND
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entries/73/c0727300.html !

crapulence
SYLLABICATION: crap-u-lence
PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: krpy-lns

NOUN: 1. Sickness caused by excessive eating or drinking.
2. Excessive indulgence; intemperance.
ETYMOLOGY: From crapulent, sick from gluttony, from Late Latin
crapulentus, very drunk, from Latin crapula, intoxication, from Greek
kraipal.
OTHER FORMS: crapulent ADJECTIVE
crapulous ADJECTIVE

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