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HOWARD SWAN, CHARLES HIRT, AND ROGER WAGNER:
THEIR INFLUENCES AND THE BUILDING OF CHORAL CULTURE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
by
Lesley Gayle Leighton
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS
(CHORAL MUSIC)
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Lesley Gayle Leighton
Object Description
| Title | Howard Swan, Charles Hirt, and Roger Wagner: their influences and the building of choral culture in southern California |
| Author | Leighton, Lesley Gayle |
| Author email | lgleighton@aol.com;lgleighton@aol.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Musical Arts |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Choral Music |
| School | Thornton School of Music |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-03-26 |
| Date submitted | 2012-04-25 |
| Date approved | 2012-04-25 |
| Restricted until | 2012-04-25 |
| Date published | 2012-04-25 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Scheibe, Jo-Michael |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Brinegar, Donald L. Strimple, Nick L. |
| Abstract | While there are several critically important first-generation conducting figures in the development of the choral tradition in southern California, three of the most influential figures who contributed lasting legacies to the choral arts in Los Angeles are Howard Swan, Charles Hirt, and Roger Wagner. This paper studies the work, lives, and influences to the choral culture that has been established over the past nine decades in the southern California region, through the filter of these three conductors, which covers approximately the years 1925-1992. ❧ By uncovering their work, approaches, performance practices, methodologies and ethics in the profession, some principles of their lasting influences upon the generations that have followed might be drawn; and in coming to a literate understanding of their effect on the choral cultural of southern California regarding the institutions they founded or greatly impacted, programs they created, core values they followed, repertoire choices, development of outstanding choral singers and performance practices, we can hope to uncover ideas and values that will help shape future generations of the southern California choral community while respecting its historical foundations. |
| Keyword | choral music; Los Angeles; Los Angeles Master Chorale; Roger Wagner; Charles Hirt; Howard Swan; choral conducting; choral culture |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Leighton, Lesley Gayle |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-LeightonLe-642.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | HOWARD SWAN, CHARLES HIRT, AND ROGER WAGNER: THEIR INFLUENCES AND THE BUILDING OF CHORAL CULTURE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA by Lesley Gayle Leighton A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS (CHORAL MUSIC) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Lesley Gayle Leighton |
