Overture to the School of Wives
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Product ID: SP1 42054
By Lewis M. Miller
Publisher:
Shawnee Press
Genre:
Light Classical
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra (Solo: Symphony Orchestra)
Duration:
4:30
Level: 4
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Overture to The School for Wives is one of the five concert overtures by the composer which were inspire by plays of the great seventeenth-century playwright, Molière. Three of the others, The Imaginary Invalid, The High-brow Ladies, and Tartuffe (winner of the NSOA Contest for (1979) are for orchestra and the fourth, Overture to the School for Husbands is for concert band. None of the overtures is programmatic, but each attempts to evoke the comic spirit of the French master within the framework of classical forms.
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Composer
Lewis M. Miller
Dr. Lewis M. Miller, retired professor of music, died Jan. 9, 2014, in Albuquerque, N.M. He is survived by his wife, Johannah; two sons and a daughter.
Miller joined the Fort Hays State University faculty in 1966 teaching music composition and theory and retired in 1996 as a professor of music. Prior to that he headed the music department at Texarkana Junior College, was resident composer in El Paso and Elkhart, Ind., and served in the U.S. Army. He holds undergraduate degrees from Queens College and the Manhattan School of Music, a master’s degree from MSM and a doctorate from North Texas State University.
The native of Brooklyn, N.Y., wrote two operas, numerous musical scores and many published articles. He received numerous awards for his work from the American society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
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