Gregg Wager
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Genre: Ambient / Classical / Electronica
Location California, US
Profile Views: 9742
Last Login: 5/7/2011
Member Since 6/30/2006
Website http://www.angelfire.com/music2/greggwager
Record Label Huwon Productions
Type of Label Indie
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After an active childhood of piano lessons, public school music programs, a marching band, and learning the pop music of the 1960s as it happened in real time, I went through six long years of music composition study at USC and CalArts. My principle teachers were and still are: Morten Lauridsen, James Hopkins, Robert Linn, Bob Moore, Mel Powell, and Morton Subotnick. I also took a seminar led by Karlheinz Stockhausen in the Hague, Holland, called "the Stockhausen Projekt," so consider him an important teacher and influence. Upon returning to America, I bummed around for a year and landed a job as a pianist/arranger with something called "The Great American Entertainment Company," which found us regulars on the "Pat Boone, USA" television show, performing on the floor at the 1984 Republican National Convention (in Dallas), and folding six months after we started. I then started writing music reviews for a living, as well as pre-computer music copying (lots of black ink and vellum). I contributed regularly to the Los Angeles ..Times.. (1985-91), and released an LP, ..Adjacent Lines and Equal Parts.., in 1985 (MF Records 001), along with lots of home-brewed cassette tapes. I was also involved in an organization called the Independent Composers Association, which was an exercise in composers not getting along. I performed a lot around Los Angeles, including the legendary Lhasa Club. I kept adding hours at the Los Angeles ..Times.., working as an editorial assistant in the restaurant (with Ruth Reichl) and film (with Sheila Benson) departments, as well as the music desk, until enough was enough. I moved to Berlin in 1992 and earned a Ph.D. in musicology there in 1996. I also performed and premièred several works there, mostly at the historic Schauspielhaus on the Gendarme Markt. Upon returning to America (the East Coast), I self-published an English version of my dissertation with the title ..Symbolism as a Compositional Method in the Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen.. (ISBN 0-9665850-0-3). I spent eight long years in New York, working as an adjunct professor in music composition at SUNY Purchase, as well as helping to organize a celebration of Kurt Weill's music during the centennial celebration of his birth (2000). In 2007 I resided in Seoul, S. Korea, and taught music composition and another graduate seminar at the Korean National University of the Arts. Today I am drifting around Kalleefornia. -
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(in no particular order, but roughly in clusters) Charles Ives, Elliott Carter, Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Terry Riley, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Harry Partch, Morton Subotnick, Mel Powell, Morten Lauridsen III, James Hopkins, Robert Moore, Robert Linn, The Doors, the Beatles, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Al DiMeola, Stanley Clarke, John McLaughlin, Ravi Shankar, the Minutemen, the Butthole Surfers, the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Guillaume de Machaut, John Adams, Helmut Lachenmann, Robert HP Platz, Joan La Barbara, Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Gérard Grisey, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Muzio Clementi, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, La Monte Young, Edgard Varèse, Morton Feldman, Luciano Berio, Kurt Weill, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Gustav Mahler, Josquin des Prez, Fatboy Slim, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Killer Pussy, Oingo Boingo, Madonna, Talking Heads, Devo, the Monkees, the Blues Magoos, Dave Clark Five, the Yardbirds, Jethro Tull, Elton John, André Previn, the James Gang, Little Feat, the Who, Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Henry Purcell, Thomas Tallis, George Frideric Handel, Krzysztof Penderecki, Györgi Ligeti, Franz Waxman, Tiny Tim, Syd Barrett, Stan Ridgway, Junior Vasquez, Maurice Jarre, Rio Reiser, die Prinzen, Lucy Lectric, Marilyn Manson, the Spice Girls, Slipknot, Kittie, (hed) pe, Beck, Kurt Cobain, System of a Down, Rammstein, B. B. King, Benjamin Britten, Cornelius Cardew, Michael Nyman, Brian Eno, Béla Bartók, Aram Khachaturian, Sergei Prokofiev, Piotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Arvo Pärt, George Crumb, Peter Schickele, Wendy Carlos, John Philip Sousa, Scott Joplin -
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