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Composer Joseph Willard Roosevelt

Author: clarinetguy ★2017
Date: 2014-09-20 18:16

Like many of you, I've been watching The Roosevelts: An Intimate History on PBS. Ken Burns really did an amazing job.

This prompted me to do some further reading, and I discovered there was a musician in the family, composer and pianist Joseph Willard Roosevelt (1918-2008), son of Kermit and Belle Willard Roosevelt and grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He lived an interesting life as a pianist, composer, and professor of music, and among other things, he studied piano with Nadia Boulanger.

I had never heard of him, but noticed that he wrote a number of compositions including a trio for clarinet, cello, and piano and Waltz for flute (or clarinet) and piano. Did any of you ever meet him, perform his music, or hear his music performed?

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