Discipline: Music Composition

Gordon Beeferman

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Gordon Beeferman started work on a chamber music score for dance as well as an opera-burlesque in collaboration with librettist Charlotte Jackson. He and Jackson completed their first chamber opera, The Rat Land, in 2008.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Gordon Beeferman worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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