Jablonski, Marek (Michael)
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BIBLIOGRAPHYM. Campbell: ‘Max Jaffa: a Profile’, The Strad, xci (1980), 26–31 M. Campbell: Obituary, The Strad, ciii (1992), 53–5 MARGARET CAMPBELL Jaffe, Stephen(b Washington, DC, 30 Dec 1954). American composer. He studied composition at the Geneva Conservatoire and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Thereafter he worked with Crumb, Rochberg and Wernick at the University of Pennsylvania where he received the master’s degree (1978). Three years later he joined the music department at Duke University and established the prominent concert series Encounters: With Music from Our Time. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1981 and received the Brandeis University Creative Arts Citation in 1989. Other honours include the Kennedy Center’s Friedheim Award (1991) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Lifetime Achievement Prize (1993). In 1999 Jaffe was named Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Professor of Music Composition at Duke University. Jaffe’s style forges a path between American modernist traditions of the 1960s and 70s and the more pluralistic approaches of the 1980s and 90s. Although his work shows a deep understanding of many different types of music, his compositions are unique and resist easy description. Later works, such as Offering (1996), engage challenging paradoxes within various strata: materials traditionally understood as tonal are used in a non-tonal manner, and a mercurial interplay exists between lyrical, sensual impulses and taut, lean structural groundings. One of the most distinguished composers of his generation, his works have been performed throughout the USA and Europe. WORKS
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