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Welcome to Randall Davidson's music publishing, producing and performance website. His music company, Boys Art Music (ASCAP), has recently been moved to this website. His music is performed around the world, primarily in North America, Europe and Australia.
His composer and publishing PROFILE provides more details. |
The MOVING COMPANY BLOG shares music that moves and influences him. His WORKING BLOG documents the creative process and projects.
This website is a legacy project that will be updated as new music, publications, recordings, and videos become available. |
Performance materials
Shop for music for larger performing forces. Inquiries are available.
Negotiate a license for rental of materials for dramatic works (Grand Rights: dance, ballet, opera, music theater). Digitized scores from the Boys Art Music catalogue are for sale and come with a covenant to limited photocopying.
Materials are downloadable music (when digitized) or inquiries can be made for receiving scores and parts.
Negotiate a license for rental of materials for dramatic works (Grand Rights: dance, ballet, opera, music theater). Digitized scores from the Boys Art Music catalogue are for sale and come with a covenant to limited photocopying.
Materials are downloadable music (when digitized) or inquiries can be made for receiving scores and parts.
Profile
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Music of humor and passion are the hallmarks of Randall Davidson's catalogue. His works have enjoyed hundreds of performances and have attracted the attention of performers, audiences, and critics alike for their dramatic and accessible language. The catalogue encompasses nearly every genre: dozens of choral works, opera, ballets, an oratorio, a guitar concerto, chamber works, orchestra works, television commercials, incidental music for theater and puppets, sound installations, jazz and rock.
Born in Pueblo, Colorado and raised in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri, he received his education at Cornell College and the University of Minnesota. He now lives in retirement where he writes down the music that has been playing in his head since he was eight years old. Moving to Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota in 1975, he soon found an alarming number of positions in arts administration that occupied his time until 2023: executive director of Composers Institute, executive producer of the Northern Voice Festival, administrative director of the National Lutheran Choir, Fine Art Manager at Augsburg University (Minneapolis), Managing Composer at the American Composers Forum (formerly Minnesota Composers Forum), producer of the American Radio Company of the Air with Garrison Keillor (in New York City), and positions at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Schubert Club, Minnesota Public Radio, and the University of Minnesota School of Music. He studied music composition at Cornell College with Alf Houkom and the University of Minnesota with Dominick Argento, Eric Stokes, Paul Fetler and musicology with Susan McClary. |
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