Maura Bosch facts for kids
Marjorie Ann Hess, also known as Maura Bosch, is an American composer. She was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1956. Maura Bosch studied music at the Hartt College of Music and Princeton University. She earned several degrees, including a Ph.D. in 2008. She learned from famous composers like Milton Babbitt.
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Her Musical Journey
Maura Bosch married another composer, Jeffrey Brooks. They lived in Bath, England, for a while. Later, they moved to Minneapolis, USA.
Creating New Music
In Minneapolis, Maura Bosch helped start a music theater company. It was called Corn Palace Productions. She ran this company from 1990 to 1997. They created many new musical works. Maura Bosch even wrote three of her own operas for the company. One opera was based on a poem by James Merrill. She worked with him to write the story. From 1997 to 2000, she also started and played with a music group called Blackstone Bosch.
Music for a Cause
In 2007, Maura Bosch worked with the Tubman Family Alliance. This group helps women who have experienced abuse. Maura Bosch composed a musical piece based on their experiences.
Operas and Stories
In 2009, Maura Bosch wrote her fourth opera. It was called Art and Desire. She also wrote the story, or libretto, for it. The opera was about a made-up meeting between artists Lee Krasner and Clement Greenberg. This meeting happened twenty years after Krasner's husband, Jackson Pollock, had passed away.
What Has She Composed?
Maura Bosch has written many different types of music. This includes songs for choirs, singers, instruments, and operas. Here are some of her selected works:
- The Disappearance of Luisa Porto, opera (1989)
- Mirabell’s Book of Numbers, opera (1991)
- The Damnation of Felicity, opera (1994)
- 3 Hymns (1995)
- My Purity (1995)
- Zelda Songs (1997)
- Bronte Songs (1996)
- The Oxen (1993)
- Santuario (1992) for orchestra
- About the Night (1993) for string quartet
- The Turning, cantata (2007)
- Art and Desire, opera (2009)
Maura Bosch has also published a book:
- Everyone can compose music (2008) Princeton University
