Howard Hanson
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Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he raised its quality and provided opportunities for
Howard Hanson, 1959
Hanson's boyhood home in Wahoo, Nebraska is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Eastman School of Music – University of Rochester – general view
Merry Mount (opera)
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Merry Mount is an opera in three acts by American composer Howard Hanson; its libretto, by Richard Stokes, is loosely based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The May-Pole of Merry Mount", taken fr
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…performance. It is also widely known for its use in the final scene and end credits of the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien. In some ways Hanson's opera Merry Mount (1934) may be considered the first fully American opera. It was written by an American composer and an American librettist on an American story, and…
Illustration to the short story on which the opera is based
Lawrence Tibbett, creator of the role of Wrestling Bradford
Göta Ljungberg, the first Lady Marigold
Gladys Swarthout, originator of the role of Plentiful Tewke