At MacDowell Richard Peaslee was working on the completion of the piano/vocal score of a musical theatre work "Moby Dick" (the libretto using only Melville's words). Recent works included the score for "Vienna Lusthaus Revisited" (off-Broadway-2002) and the music for a dance piece, "The Four Temperments" (2002) commissioned by Pilobolus.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Richard Peaslee
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Seattle, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
Studios
Irving Fine
Richard Peaslee worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…