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Robert Hall Lewis


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Robert Hall Lewis (1926--1996) was born in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Baltimore where he taught at Goucher College and the Peabody Institute of Music and for many years served as Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore.   
Robert Hall Lewis is highly regarded as a composer of large-scale symphonic works and chamber music.  His earlier compositions were concerned with linear developmental processes using serial methods, but the ordered growth and evolution apparent in his music of the 1960s and 1970s reflect a change in style.  ​Beyond his basic predilection for inventive textures, unusual timbres, complex rhythms and rich harmony in a freely atonal context, Lewis sought new modes of expression in his works including spatial effects (Moto, Due madrigals), quotations (Alto Kantaten), taped sounds (whole songs in Nuances II), passages in different tempos played simultaneously (Osservazioni II Moto), and aleatory techniques.  All are controlled by strong intellect and technical skills of the highest order.  Many of his works have been recorded.

Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland

November 15, 1986 Concert
featuring
20th century brass chamber music by American composers
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Annapolis Brass Quintet 
Performing
Combinazioni V
by
Robert Hall Lewis

Recorded for broadcast by WBJC--FM

​​​TAP > AUDIO BARS BELOW
( A )  Lewis commenting on his work   ( B )  ABQ playing  Combinazioni  V
(There may be a 10 to 20 second delay before sound begins.)
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ABQ 1986 (clockwise from upper left) Bob Suggs, David Cran, Wayne Wells, Arthur Brooks, Robert Posten

The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has acquired the music archives of Robert Hall Lewis (1926-1996).  He was an American composer, conductor and educator whose solo, chamber and orchestral works have been performed widely in America and Europe.​   

Composer Robert Hall Lewis
To read a transcript of
 "A Conversation with Bruce Duffie"
&
"A life devoid of mediocrity"

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PictureROBERT HALL LEWIS (1926 - 1996)
​The Robert Hall Lewis Collection
A gift from his widow, Barbara Bowersock Lewis, the Robert Hall Lewis Collection includes 87 completed music compositions, both printed and manuscript, that Lewis wrote mainly for chamber ensembles and orchestra.  It also includes other printed music by contemporary 20th-century composers, correspondence, biographical and teaching materials, writings, programs, photographs, sound recordings and related materials.  The donation complements existing collections in the Library's Music Division that document the work of major contemporary 20th-century American composers and artists, such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein.
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 The score and parts for COMBINAZIONI V by ROBERT HALL LEWIS along with the entire 
ABQ music library are available for study and performance through the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.


 For direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection at the
​Oberlin Conservatory Library
 

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