Fussell, Charles (Clement)
Fussell, Charles (Clement) (b Winston-Salem, N. Car., 1938). Amer. composer and conductor. Taught theory and comp. at Univ. of Mass., 1966–76, founding Group for New Music, 1974. Teacher of comp., N. Car. Sch. of the Arts, Winston-Salem, 1976–7, Boston Univ. from 1981. Works incl opera Caligula (1962); 3 syms. (1963, 1964–7, 1978–81); Northern Lights (2 portraits for chamber orch. of Janáček and Munch) (1977–9); Virgil Thomson Sleeping, chamber orch. (1981); Greenwood Sketches, str. qt. (1976); several vocal works incl. Wilde, 2 monologues for bar. and orch. (1989–90).
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