Alice Parker
American composer
Died when: 98 years 8 days (1176 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Alice Parker (born December 16, 1925) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and teacher.She has authored five operas, eleven song-cycles, thirty-three cantatas, eleven works for chorus and orchestra, forty-seven choral suites, and more than forty hymns, all original compositions.
Also to be noted are wealth of arrangements based on pre-existing folk-songs and hymns, many of which were produced in collaboration with Robert Shaw.
Parker is best known for these kinds of arrangements of spirituals, mountain hymns, and folk songs, early-American hymns, and international folk-songs, most notably in French, Spanish, Hebrew, and Ladino.
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