Background
Kim, Earl was born on January 6, 1920 in Dinuba, California, United States. Son of Sung Kwon and Sarah (Kang) Kim.
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SongBook - For high soprano, violin con sordini, piano and lights. - SCORE - Earl Kim - SCHOTT - Softcover - Mobart Music Publications/Schott Helicon - 1973 - 884088615581 - 32 Pages. - Lenght 9.00 - Width 12.00
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Kim, Earl was born on January 6, 1920 in Dinuba, California, United States. Son of Sung Kwon and Sarah (Kang) Kim.
Student, University of California at Los Angeles, 1940-1941; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1952.
He began piano studies at age ten and soon developed an interest in composition, studying in Los Angeles and Berkeley with, among others, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch, and Roger Sessions. After serving in World World War II as a combat intelligence officer, he accepted a teaching position at Princeton in 1952. In 1967 he left Princeton for Harvard University, where he taught until his retirement in 1990.
He died of lung cancer at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 78.
Kim is known for his vocal and music theatre works, many of which use texts by Samuel Beckett, and for his expressive, often tonal style. His students include Peter Maxwell Davies, John Adams, David Delegate Tredici, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Curt Cacioppo, David Lewin, Richard Saint Clair, Doug Davis, John Thow, January Swafford, Randall Woolf, Donald Sur, and Paul Salerni.
His art songs have been performed by Bethany Beardslee, Benita Valente and Dawn Upshaw.
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Served to captain United States Army Air Force, 1942-1946. Co-founder, president, Musicians Against Nuclear Arms, 1981-1984.
Married Nora Philipsborn, 1947. 1 child, Shawna; married Martha Potter, August 25, 1977. 1 child, Eva.