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Alice Parker is a renowned American composer, arranger, conductor, and teacher. She was born on December 16, 1925, in Boston, Massachusetts. She is best known for her choral arrangements of spirituals and folk songs, as well as her compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, and solo instruments.
Parker attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied composition with Walter Piston and conducting with Serge Koussevitzky. She also studied with Aaron Copland and Nadia Boulanger.
Parker has composed over 200 works, including choral works, orchestral works, chamber works, and solo works. She has also written several books on music theory and composition.
Parker has received numerous awards and honors, including the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Academy Award in Music, and the American Choral Directors Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Parker is currently 98 years old. She is married to composer and conductor Robert Shaw, with whom she has two children.
| Popular As |
Alice Parker |
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Composer · Arranger · conductor · Teacher |
| Age |
98 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius |
| Born |
16 December, 1925 |
| Birthday |
16 December |
| Birthplace |
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Date of death |
December 24, 2023 |
| Died Place |
Hawley, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States |
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Alice Parker Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Alice Parker's Husband?
Her husband is Thomas Pyle (m. 1954-1976)
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Alice Parker Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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The 2020 documentary Alice: At Home With Alice Parker by Eduardo Montes-Bradley, explores the life and works of Parker. It was filmed over the winter of 2020 at her residence in Hawley and in New York City. Produced by HFP in association with Melodious Accord, Inc., the film focuses particularly on the formative years and in the collaborations of Parker with the written works of Martin Luther King Jr., Archibald MacLeish, Eudora Welty and Emily Dickinson. Alice's American premiere was on October 8, 2020, by Chorus America, it was selected to be in the Official Selection, 2020 at the Virginia Film Festival. Grand Jury Award, Mystic Film Festival, 2021. Distributed by Kanopy.
To celebrate Parker's 90th birthday in 2015, choral groups worldwide posted performances of her work on YouTube, as part of a project called Alice Is 90.
Parker served on the Board of Directors of Chorus America. She was their first Director Laureate. Among her many awards, Parker has received the Distinguished Composer of the Year 2000 by the American Guild of Organists, the 2014 Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association, the Harvard Glee Club Foundation Medal in 2015, six honorary doctorates, and the Smith College Medal. Parker is a Fellow of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada. She has been awarded grants from ASCAP, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the American Music Center. Most recently she was honored by the International Emily Dickinson Society for her choral suite Heavenly Hurt.
In 1954, Parker married Thomas Pyle, a member of the Robert Shaw Chorale. They had five children. Pyle died unexpectedly in 1976, leaving her to care for their five children. She moved to western Massachusetts, and, in 1985, she founded Melodious Accord. The Musicians of Melodious Accord is a professional chorus that has released fourteen albums. The Melodious Accord Fellowship Program brings young mid-career musicians from all over the world to study with Parker.
(1951–1962 in collaboration with Robert Shaw; Robert Shaw Chorale)
Parker attended Smith College, graduating in 1947 with a double major in organ and composition. She went on to study choral conducting at Juilliard, then became a teacher while also collaborating with Robert Shaw on arrangements of materials to be recorded by the Robert Shaw Chorale, formed in 1948. Parker went on to become the primary arranger for the Robert Shaw Chorale for 20 years. On December 29, 1947, Alice was featured on the cover of Newsweek alongside other singers. The chorale disbanded in 1965.
Alice Parker (born December 16, 1925) is an American composer, arranger, conductor, and teacher. She has authored five operas, eleven song-cycles, thirty-three cantatas, eleven works for chorus and orchestra, forty-seven choral suites, and more than forty hymns, all original compositions. Also to be noted are wealth of arrangements based on pre-existing folk-songs and hymns, many of which were produced in collaboration with Robert Shaw. Parker is best known for these kinds of arrangements of spirituals, mountain hymns, and folk songs, early-American hymns, and international folk-songs, most notably in French, Spanish, Hebrew, and Ladino.
