Elinor remick warren biography of nancy
Elinor remick warren biography of nancy
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The incredible story of Elinor Remick Warren, one of America’s most in-demand 20th century composers
29 July 2021, 17:12 | Updated: 30 July 2021, 09:11
Everything you need to know about the fiercely independent and endlessly creative neo-Romantic composer and pianist.
“I don’t like to be pigeon-holed,” Elinor Remick Warren said in an interview towards the end of her life.
“You’re a composer or you’re not a composer, and I prefer to be known as a composer.”
Remick Warren, an American neo-Romantic composer working in the 20th century, had been asked if ‘woman composer’ or just ‘composer’ was the right epithet for her.
“I’m very proud to be a woman but I don’t like to be viewed just as a ‘woman composer’,” she went on to clarify in the interview with broadcaster Bruce Duffie.
Remick Warren was a prolific composer and in-demand pianist, and a contemporary of the American composers Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti.
Always busy, she was regularly commissioned by major orche