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Composer Charles Shadle
(b.1960) was educated at the University of Colorado, Tulane University,
and Brandeis University, where he studied with Cecil Effinger, Richard
Toensing, Martin Boykan, Edward Cohen, Harold Shapero and Yehudi Wyner, as
well as privately with Eloise Ristad.
He has completed commissions for organizations including SUNY
Buffalo, Longwood Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Handel and Haydn
Society, Boston Aria Guild, MIT Concert Band, and the Syracuse Symphony
Orchestra. Friends
& Dinosaurs, Dr. Shadle’s “opera for the amusement of the
young” has been performed throughout the United States and broadcast by
Hawaii Public Television.
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His
most recent opera Coyote’s Dinner received its critically acclaimed premier in
November, 2002 at MIT. A
recording (Wergo) of Cowboy Song,
a piece commissioned by pianist Guy Livingston has recently been issued. Works slated for performance in the upcoming season include Star
Seeker: a song cycle to poems of Langston Hughes, commissioned by
the Naumberg Award winning baritone Stephen Salters, a series of
liturgical works including a
setting of the Magnificat and
Nunc Dimittis for the Ecclesia Consort of Providence, Rhode
Island, and A
New England Seasonal (a cantata on Poems of Dickinson, Longfellow,
Emerson, Thoreau and Frost) for the Newton Choral Society.
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- Dr. Shadle was the composer of A Question of
Love,
Intermezzo's fourth commissioned opera. Spring, 2008 brings
another Shadle commission, The Last Goodbye.
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Dr. Shadle serves as Lecturer on the faculty of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
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