American Mavericks Musical Visionaries, Pioneers, Iconoclasts Tapa blanda - 2001

Bios for American Mavericks Contributors:

John Adams America's leading composer and a Bay Area resident since 1971. His work with the San Francisco Symphony includes stints as New Music Advisor and Composer in Residence, as well as frequent appearances as guest conductor. His most recent works are Naive and Sentimental Music, Century Rolls, and El Nino.

Michael Broyles Michael Broyles' book Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music is forthcoming from Yale University Press. With Denise Von Glahn he is also writing a biography of Leo Ornstein. His most recent book is "Music of the Highest Class": Elitism and Populism in Antebellum Boston. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Music and Professor of American History at The Pennsylvania State University.

James Keller is the San Francisco Symphony's program annotator. He is winner of the 1999 Deems Taylor Award for Music Journalism and is also program annotator for the New York Philharmonic.

Susan Key is a musicologist specializing in American music. She has taught at the University of Maryland, the College of William and Mary, and Stanford University; currently she is a member of the San Francisco Symphony's Artistic Planning Department.

Paul Lehrman is a composer, writer, and music technologist currently on the faculty of Tufts University. He has written scores for films featured on PBS, The History Channel, and Discovery networks, and he is co-author of MIDI for the Professional (AMSCO) and editorial director for the web site of the professional audio journal Mix, for which he writes a monthly column.

Alan Rich's most recent book is American Pioneers in the Phaidon Press 20th-Century Composers series. One of the founders of the Bay Area station KPFA, he is currently classical-music critic for the LA Weekly.

Grover Sales's involvement with Duke Ellington as teacher, writer, and publicist began in the early 1940's. Sales is Lecturer in Jazz Studies at Stanford University, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Jazz School in Berkeley. His book Jazz: America's Classical Music is used as a basic text in colleges nationwide.

Michael Steinberg is a musicologist, writer, lecturer, critic, teacher, chamber music coach, and narrator. He has served as program annotator of the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Boston Symphony. He was the San Francisco Symphony's Artistic Adviser for ten years and later held the same post with the Minnesota Orchestra, where he was also Artistic Director of the annual Viennese Sommerfest. Two collections of his program essays, The Symphony: A Listener's Guide (1995) and The Concerto: A Listener's Guide (1998) have been published by Oxford University Press, and a similar book on the choral literature is scheduled for publication next year. Steinberg is a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music, The Britannica Book of Music, and The Beethoven Quartet Companion (University of California Press).