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John Charles Eaton (born 30 March 1935) is an American composer (; ), recipient of the Prix de Rome, Guggenheim Fellow , MacArthur Fellow, and professor emeritus of composition at the University of Chicago . ==Life== John Eaton was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He attended Princeton University, where he graduated in 1957 . He later lived in Rome (1957–68), returning to Princeton to earn a Ph.D. in 1970 . He subsequently held faculty appointments at Indiana University (1970–92) and the University of Chicago (1989–99) (; ). Eaton is a prominent composer of microtonal music, and worked with Paul Ketoff and Robert Moog during the 1960s in developing several types of synthesizers (; ; ). He innovated a compositional genre called ''pocket opera'', operas scored for a small cast of vocalists and a chamber group. His most famous opera is ''The Cry of Clytaemnestra'' (1980), a re-telling of some of the events surrounding the Trojan War from the perspective of Agamemnon's wife Clytaemnestra, which has been hailed as the first feminist opera. It was premièred in Bloomington, at the Indiana University Opera Theater, on 1 March 1980, and received a number of subsequent productions, most notably in New York and California . Eaton's opera, ''The Tempest'', with a libretto by Andrew Porter after William Shakespeare, was premièred at the Santa Fe Opera on 27 July 1985 (; ; ), and subsequently performed in the autumn of 1986 at the Indiana University School of Music . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Eaton (composer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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