Word: liebermann
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...bespectacled, tweedy Lowell Liebermann seemed staggered by the sight and sound of his first standing ovation, Texas-style. Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony had just premiered his Second Symphony, and the first-nighters earlier this month jumped to their feet and shouted with understandable delight. Now brazen and glittering, now radiantly visionary, the Liebermann Second, a resplendent choral symphony based on the poetry of Walt Whitman, is the work of a composer unafraid of grand gestures and openhearted lyricism. Says conductor Litton, who picked Liebermann, 39, as the orchestra's composer-in-residence: "Lowell is proving that new classical...
...former prodigy from New York City who produced his Op. 1, a piano sonata, at 15, Liebermann is one of the New Tonalists, a group of composers who have turned their back on the hard-edged, complicated avant-garde sounds that dominated the American new-music scene after World War II. Unlike such devotees of dissonance as Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter, they happily embrace traditional tonality, the harmonic language of most Western music, from Bach to rock. "I don't believe in the cliche that art has to reflect its times--that since we're living in a horrible...