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Hollingsworth, Stanley Walker (b. August 27, 1924, Berkeley, California – d. October 29, 2003, Rocklin, California). American composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral works that have been performed in Europe and North America.
Prof. Hollingsworth studied piano with William J. Erlendson at San Jose State College from 1941-44 and privately with Harald Logan in Berkeley from 1944-46. He studied composition with Darius Milhaud at Mills College from 1944-46 and with Gian Carlo Menotti at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1948-50.
Among his honors are the Prix de Rome (1955-58), the Guggenheim Fellowship (1958) and residencies at Wolf Trap, the Yaddo Arts Colony, the MacDowell Colony, the Montalvo Center for the Arts, and the Ossabaw Island Project (1973-75). He has received commissions from the Alden Dow Foundation, the Curtis Institute of Music, Dumbarton Oaks, Fedora Horowitz, the Meadow Book Music Festival, NBC, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among other organizations.
He worked as a composer and orchestrator for the Harkness Ballet from 1963-70 and as an operatic stage director in Austria and Turkey from 1970-72.
He taught composition and orchestration as an assistant to Gian Carlo Menotti at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1949-55 and lectured on composition, counterpoint, harmony, and piano at San Jose State College from 1961-63. He served as composer-in-residence and taught composition, music theory and orchestration at Oakland University from 1976-93, where he retired as Professor Emeritus.
His large-scale works are archived in the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia and all other works are at Oakland University. In addition, nearly nine hours of interviews with the composer are archived as part of the Oral History, American Music project at Yale University.
He used the name Stanley Hollier for a few early works. In addition to the works listed below, Prof. Hollingsworth has composed incidental music and has made orchestrations of music by Gabriel Fauré, Gian Carlo Menotti and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address (c/o his sister Louise Bachtold): louisem@starstream.net
SELECT LIST OF WORKS (dates given are often those of première; note that many works contain material from earlier works, but these similarities are not mentioned; early works which have been incorporated into later works are also not mentioned)
STAGE: The Mother (1 act opera, libretto by the composer, John Fandel, after Hans Christian Andersen), 1949 (may be performed as a trilogy with The Selfish Giant, Harrison Loved His Umbrella); La Grande Bretèche (1 act opera, libretto by the composer, Harry Duncan, after Honoré de Balzac), 1954; The Unquiet Graves (1 act ballet, choreography by John Butler), 1958; The Selfish Giant (1 act opera, libretto by the composer, after Oscar Wilde), 1981 (may be performed as a trilogy with The Mother, Harrison Loved His Umbrella); Harrison Loved His Umbrella (1 act opera/musical cartoon, libretto by the composer, Rhoda Levine), 1981 (may be performed as a trilogy with The Mother, The Selfish Giant)
ORCHESTRAL: I Saltimbanchi, flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, string orchestra, 1960 (version of chamber work); Concerto, piano, orchestra, 1980; Divertimento, 1982; Three Ladies beside the Sea (text by Rhoda Levine), speaker, small orchestra, 1984; Concerto Lirico, violin, orchestra, 1991
CHAMBER MUSIC: Sonata, oboe, piano, 1949; I Saltimbanchi, flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, string quartet, double bass, 1960 (also version with string orchestra instead of 5 strings); Three Impromptus, flute, piano, 1974; Ricordanza (in memoriam Samuel Barber), oboe, violin, viola, cello, 1981; Academic Festival Procession, 2 French horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, timpani, 1984; Reflections and Diversions, clarinet, piano, 1985
CHORAL: Dumbarton Oaks Mass, mixed chorus, string orchestra/orchestra, 1953; Stabat Mater, mixed chorus, orchestra, 1957; A Song of David (text from the Book of Psalms), tenor, mixed chorus, orchestra, c. 1960s; Death Be Not Proud (text by John Donne), mixed chorus, piano, 1978 (also version for mixed chorus, orchestra, c. 1980)
VOCAL: Five Songs (text by Emily Dickinson), voice, piano, 1960 (also versions for voice, harp, string quartet, double bass, 1960; voice, harp, string orchestra, 1960)
PIANO: Five Fancies in Six Minutes, 2000 (incomplete)
(Last updated on May 24, 2004)
