![]() (lyrics: 'Old Buttermilk Sky', 'Lazy Bones', 'Little Old Lady' - uncredited) / (music: 'Old Buttermilk Sky', 'Stardust', 'Georgia on My Mind', 'Lazy Bones', 'Little Old Lady', 'In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening' - uncredited) / (performer: 'Stardust', 'Hong Kong Blues', 'Georgia on My Mind', 'Lazy Bones', 'Rockin' Chair', 'Little Old Lady', 'In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening', 'Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven' - uncredited) / (writer: 'Hong Kong Blues', 'Rockin' Chair' - uncredited). Summary Information Title: Michael Daugherty papers Creator: Daugherty, Michael, 1954- Inclusive dates: 1973-2013 Extent: 38.5 linear feet (in 55 boxes and 1 oversize folder) Abstract: Michael Daugherty is an internationally renowned composer and Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Papers include compositions and original scores, correspondence, reviews, previews, programs and brochures for performances of Daugherty’s work, and notes and collected materials documenting Daugherty’s education, awards, and grants. Call number: 2011163 Aa 2 Ac Language: The material is in English Repository: Bentley Historical Library 1150 Beal Ave. Ann Arbor, MI Phone: 734-764-3482 Fax: 734-936-1333 e-mail: [email protected] Home Page: aid created by Alexis Antracoli (November 2011); Cherie Edmonds (2012 addition); Olga Virakhovskaya (2013 addition). Access and Use Acquisition Information: The collection was donated by Michael Daugherty (Donor no. 10620) in 2011. Additions were received in 2012. Access Restrictions: The collection is open to research. To protect fragile audiovisual recordings (such as audio cassettes, film reels, and VHS tapes), the Bentley Historical Library has a policy of converting them to digital formats by a professional vendor whenever a researcher requests access. For more information, please see:. Copyright: Copyright is not held by the Regents of the University of Michigan. Patrons are responsible for determining the appropriate use or reuse of materials. Preferred Citation: [item], folder, box, Michael Daugherty papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. Biography Michael Daugherty is an internationally renowned composer and Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Daugherty has composed dozens works since coming to national attention in the United States when Snap! The Hipster's Dictionary. A copasetic compendium of hep cat hype and swing-era slang. -- Blue Like an Orange (1987) won a Kennedy Center Feldheim Award in 1989. He gained international attention in 1994 when his Metropolis Symphony was performed at Carnegie Hall. Daugherty uses sophisticated compositional techniques and complex polyrhythmic layers and is well-known for integrating electronic, jazz, rock, and contemporary American pop music with traditional concert music. From the late 1980s to mid-1990s Daugherty completed a series of compositions focused on twentieth-century American cultural icons, including Desi (1991), a Latin big band tribute to Desi Arnaz, Dead Elvis (1993), Metropolis Symphony (1988-1993) and Bizarro (1993), inspired by the Superman comic strip of the 1950s and 1960s, and Motown Metal (1994). In the late 1990s Daugherty explored geographic themes, including, Niagara Falls (1997), Route 66 (1998), and Motor City Tryptich (2000). Over the last decade, his compositions have begun to include subjects drawn from American history, including Trail of Tears (2010), Letters from Lincoln (2009), and Bay of Pigs (2006). Daugherty's compositions have been recorded and made available by Delos, Naxos, Argo, Nonesuch, and several other recording labels. The 2011 Naxos recording of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra's performance of Metropolis and Deus ex Machina received three Grammy awards, including Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Among the many other rewards he has received are the Detroit Music Awards Outstanding Classical Composer (2007, 2009, 2010), the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (2000), and the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Composer's Award (2005). Daugherty has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992) and the Guggenheim Foundation (1996). Daugherty was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1954 and attended college at North Texas State University. After graduating with a B.Mus.
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