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Beth Anderson ist eine US-amerikanische Komponistin.

Anderson studierte an der University of Kentucky Klavier bei Margie Murphy und Helen Lipscomb, am Mills College und an der UC Davis. Zu ihren Lehrern zählten John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, Larry Austin. Kenneth Wright, John Barnes Chance, Nathan Rubin, Naomi Sparrow, Bernard Abramovitch und Nathaniel Patch. Sie lebt in Brooklyn und unterrichtet an der Greenwich House Music School.

Sie ist Mitglied der Broadcast Musicians Inc. , des American Composers' Forum, der International Alliance of Women in Music, des American Music Center und der American Composers Alliance und Schatzmeisterin der New York Women Composers. Anderson komponierte Orchesterwerke, Kammermusik, eine Oper, eine Operette, ein Oratorium, Chorwerke, Lieder und elektroakustische Werke. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Januar 1950
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“To make something beautiful is revolutionary (not low class, not easy, not a sign of low intelligence).”

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Beauty is Revolution (1980)

“The relationship of feminism to my work and the evolution of the form of my music are in violent flux.”

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Beth Anderson (1980) in: Heresies. Nr 3. p. 37; Self-cited in: Beth Anderson (1980) "Beauty is Revolution"

“Real music soars above class society.”

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Beauty is Revolution (1980)

“I have never been able to understand women composers who do not wish to be called women composers. I understand their argument but it seems so superficial to me. Our strength lies in our identification with women and music.”

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What Makes Music Woman Oriented (1996)

“My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making.”

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Beth Anderson http://www.allmusic.com/artist/beth-anderson-mn0000757980 at allmusic.com, 2013

“Regarding my childhood, my grandmother could play by ear and she loved to hear me practice and would say after every piece, "That was pretty. Play that one again." She was a booster. I had two women piano teachers who encouraged me to compose--Margie Murphy and Helen Lipscomb. Helen was also a composer and we used part of my lessons for composition.
When I was in high school, I read John Cage's books and fell in love with the ideas and the excitement of the avant garde. My music, as a result, moved over to what has been called post-Cagian, non-academic. That lasted until about 1979 at which point I changed. My music is now quite lyrical, sometimes called neo-Romantic, and full of cut-ups/collage of newly composed materials. Since 1985 I have been composing mostly swales for various instrumental combinations.
A swale is a meadow or a marsh where there is nourishment and moisture and therefore, a rich diversity of plant life. My work, since 1984, has been made from swatches (of newly composed music, rather than found music) which are reminiscent of this diversity…”

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Anderson (1996-2011) "Beth Anderson, Composer, Miscellany From The Dark Past" at beand.com http://www.beand.com/, Last Updated January 3, 2011

“I've rediscovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, that can't add, that can't work from a verbalized concept, that doesn't care about stylish notation, that makes melodies that have pitch and rhythm, that doesn't know anything about zen eternity and gets bored and changes, that isn't worried about being commercial or avant-garde or serial or any other little category. Beauty is enough.”

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I've rediscovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, that can't add, that can't work from a verbalized concept, that doesn't know anything about Zen eternity and gets bored and changes, that isn't worried about being commercial or avant-garde or serial or any other little category. Beauty is enough.
Beauty is Revolution (1980)
Quelle: Jane Weiner LePage (1983) Women composers, conductors, and musicians of the twentieth century: selected biographies. p. 14

“Beauty means perfect to me, but it also has an additional meaning having to do with being pleasurable, rather than painful. Beauty is hard to make. The making is painful, and involves a certain amount of craft, and a relaxation of the part of the brain that says, "Don't write that. X wrote those four notes in 1542 or 1979 or 1825 or whatever period you are worried about being influenced by."”

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Beauty is Revolution (1980)

“The idea that beauty is revolution is a revelation to me. I once believed that the concept of the music was more important than the sound, that the politics of the notation was more important than the time limits of the rehersals and therefore, more important than the sound of the performance”

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Cited (earlier) in: American Women Composers (1979) AWC news. Volumes 2-3. p. 41
Beauty is Revolution (1980)

“To be simply a poorly paid or seldom played composer seems so tragic to me. But to be a woman composer with all the trials and tribulations that seem to go along with being a woman composer, puts everything in perspective. The struggle becomes heroic--not pitiful. The success becomes a success for all of us in the cause, not something merely egoistic.”

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What Makes Music Woman Oriented (1996)

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