John Eaton

Composer

John Eaton was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States on March 30th, 1935 and is the Composer. At the age of 80, John Eaton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

Date of Birth
March 30, 1935
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
Death Date
Dec 2, 2015 (age 80)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Profession
Composer, Pianist
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John Eaton Life

Charles Eaton (March 30, 1935-December 2, 2015) was an American composer. Eaton was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and he graduated in 1957 (Morgan 2001).

He later lived in Rome (1957–68), before returning to Princeton to earn a Ph.D. in 1970 (Anon).

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He subsequently served as a professor at Indiana University (1970–92) and the University of Chicago (1989–99) (Morgan 2001; Anon).

& n.d. (b)) Eaton was a well-known composer of microtonal music, and he worked with Paul Ketoff and Robert Moog in the 1960s, creating several styles of synthesizer (Chadabe 1967; Frankenstein 1968).

Notably, he was instrumental in the creation, use, and ultimately unsuccessful commercialization of the SynKet, which culminated in its failure in exporting, exporting, and ultimately unsuccessful commercialization of the SynKet (Crab 2015).

He invented pocket opera, operas scored for a select group of vocalists and a chamber group, and created Peer Gynt, Let's Get This Show on the Road, and Benjamin Button's Curious Case (Tommasini 2010; Grimes 2015). The Cry of Clytaemnestra (1980), a re-telling of certain of the Trojan War's history from the viewpoint of Agamemnon's wife Clytaemnestra, who has been lauded as the first feminist opera.

On March 1, 1980, it premiered in Bloomington, at the Indiana University Opera Theatre, and after that, it received a number of sequels, most notable in New York and California (Morgan 1992a).

The Tempest, Eaton's opera with a libretto by William Shakespeare, was premièred at the Santa Fe Opera on July 27, 1985 (Rockwell 1985; Morgan 1985a), and he then appeared at the Indiana University School of Music in the fall of 1986 (Anon).

(2010) Eaton specialized on chamber operas that required dramatic participation of the instrumentalists alongside the singers during his time at the University of Chicago (Oestreich 2000).

He founded and directed The Pocket Opera Players, a professional troupe dedicated to the execution of his operas in this style, as well as other contemporary composers who are curious in the form.

Since retiring from Chicago in 2001, he continued to lead the Pocket Opera Players in New York City.

He received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship (Morgan 2001), and a MacArthur Fellowship (Anon).

(2008, a) Eaton died on December 2, 2015, following a brain hemorrhage.

He survived his wife, Nelda Nelson-Eaton, and two children, Estela and Julian, who survived him (Grimes 2015).

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