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Vida Chenoweth (born 1929 in Enid, Oklahoma) was the first professional solo classical marimbist, an ethnomusicologist and a linguist. Credited with being the first to perform polyphonic music on the marimba and for doing for the marimba what Pablo Casals did for the cello and Andrés Segovia did for the guitar,〔Ronald Eyer, ''New York Herald Tribune'', January 16, 1962.〕 she made her solo debut in Chicago in 1956, followed by a successful recital in New York. She subsequently gave concerts all over the world. She is the only concert marimbist who has appeared as guest soloist in Carnegie Hall with a major orchestra besides Ruth Stuber. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1985〔(Oklahoma Hall of Fame: Posthumous Inductions )〕 and in 1994 into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.〔Strain, James A. "Vida Chenoweth" http://www.pas.org/experience/halloffame/ChenowethVida.aspx, Percussive Arts Society (accessed April 19, 2013)〕 ==Early life== Chenoweth's family owned a music store in Enid, Oklahoma and she was encouraged by her older brother to take up classical marimba.〔 The first instrument Chenoweth attempted was the piano but had to stop due to a broken index finger.〔Aube, Meghan Georgina. "Vida Chenoweth", ''Women in percussion: the emergence of woman as professional percussionists in the United States, 1930-present'', p. 20., University of Iowa, 2011 (accessed at http://ir.uiowa.edu/ on April 19, 2013)〕 Sydney David, a local music teacher, gave her initial instruction on the marimba in 1941.〔 While in high school in 1948, she studied under Clair Omar Musser at Northwestern University and was a member of his marimba orchestra, which performed in Chicago in 1948.〔 Chenoweth also studied composition and wrote pieces for marimba. She attended William Woods College in Missouri, transferring to Northwestern for her final two years of study and emerged with a double degree in music criticism and marimba performance. For graduate school, Chenoweth attended the American Conservatory in Chicago from 1952 to 1953, where she studied pedagogy of music theory, and canon and fugue with Stella Roberts, a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, and earned a double degree in music theory and percussion. 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「Vida Chenoweth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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