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Michael Torke (; born September 22, 1961) is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Torke was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he attended Wilson Elementary School and graduated from Wauwatosa East High School and studied at the Eastman School of Music with Joseph Schwantner and Christopher Rouse, and at Yale University. ==Works== (詳細はpost-minimalist, his most postminimal piece is ''Four Proverbs'', in which the syllable for each pitch is fixed and variations in the melody produce streams of nonsense words. Other works in this style include ''Book of Proverbs'' and ''Song of Isaiah''. An early piece where he first used a certain post-minimalist style was ''Vanada'', made in 1984. His most well known work is probably ''Javelin'', which he composed in 1994, commissioned by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympics in celebration of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary season, in conjunction with the 1996 Summer Olympics. Commissioned by Disney and Michael Eisner for the New York Philharmonic's Millennium Celebration, he wrote ''Four Seasons,'' an oratorio for chorus and orchestra celebrating various aspects of the months. He wrote a ballet in 2002, ''The Contract,'' with choreography by James Kudelka. He was commissioned to help Chicago celebrate the centennial of Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago and produced a work entitled ''Plans'' that was performed at the Grant Park Music Festival in June 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=From 1909: Burnham’s Plan and Rachmaninoff’s 3rd )〕 A synesthete, he is the composer of numerous pieces (''Bright Blue Music'', ''Ecstatic Orange'') which include colors in the titles, later made into the suite ''Color Music.'' Other pieces include the opera ''The Directions'' (1986), ''Rust'' (1989), influenced by rap and disco, ''Telephone Book'' (1985, 1995), ''Adjustable Wrench'', and ''Ash'' (1989) and ''Mass'' (1990), which received criticism for an attempt at the style of Beethoven and Mendelssohn. In 2003, he created his own record label, Ecstatic Records, on which he re-released a set of six 1990s CDs that were deleted by the now out-of-business Argo Records, which was a subsidiary of Decca Records. His opera ''Pop'pea'', a rock opera version of Monteverdi's ''L'incoronazione di Poppea'', was commissioned by the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and premiered there on May 29, 2012.〔("''Pop'pea'' - Monteverdi version vidéo-pop" ), ''Le Parisien'', (''Pop'pea'' (31 May 2012) review ) by Stephen J. Mudge, ''Opera News'', August 2012, vol. 77, no. 2〕 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「Michael Torke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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