Discipline: Music Composition

Richard Swift

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Davis, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971
Richard Swift (1927–2003) was an American composer and music theorist. His career was spent teaching at the University of California, Davis, from 1956 until his retirement in 1991. He was the recipient of many awards, amongst others from the National Endowment for the Arts (1977), and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1978). In addition to his activity as a composer, he also published many articles on twentieth-century music and music theory.

Studios

Monday Music

Richard Swift worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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