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Composers Bureau Archives
Eunice Lea Kettering
1906 - 2000
Honors and Publications
- Elected to ASCAP, 1966
- Publications: 36 works published from 1935-1973, from over 350
compositions written in all categories: Choral and vocal solos,
both secular & sacred. Cantatas & oratorios. Piano, two pianos,
organ, harp, chamber music, dance, orchestra and chamber orchestra,
handbells
Performances (most outstanding)
- Johnny Appleseed (poem by Vachel Lindsay) for chorus,
soloists and orchestra, performed by CBS Orchestra, Schola Cantorum;
director Hugh Ross, N.Y.C. 1943. Winner of Natl. Federation Award
for Choral-Orchestra work, 1943. Piano reduction available. At
least 20 performances since.
- Several first awards from Nationall Association of Pen Women,
for piano solos, vocal solos, choral works.
- Christmas Sermon (poem by Roark Bradford) for narrator
and a-capella choir, won 1st award citation by the Annual Institute
for Education by Radio & Television (1961), & was performed over
CBS network (1961 and 1962) with James Earl Jones, narrator. Published
by Chappell.
- John James Audubon (poem by Melrose Pitman) for orchestra,
soloists, chorus, narrator. Performed by the Dayton Philharmonic;
Paul Katz, director, Dec. 1966. Records made for the National
Audubon Society, 1967
- Affirmatio for orchestra, performed by Dayton Philharmonic,
also at symposiums by Ohio State Univ., & Univ. of Texas.
- Prelude, Toccata and Fugue, performed by the Roswell,
N.M. Orchestra, Thomas Lewis, conductor.
Further Information
- Pan Pipes 1997-1998
Annual American Composer Update
- Other listings
- Who's Who of American Women
- Who's Who in American Music: Classical - 2nd ed.,
1985
- The World's Who's Who of Women - 9th ed., 1986
- Dictionary of International Biography - vol. 20,
1986
- The International Who's Who in Music - 1987
- Foremost Women of the XXth Century - 1987
- International Who's Who of Professional & Business Women,
1st ed., 1988
- Who's Who in Entertainment (Marquis), 1987 and 1998.
- All works published & unpublished are housed in the Fine Arts
Library of the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM 87131)
under acid-free papers for preservation. Compositions are also
on file in the Archives of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio,
where she was Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence for
23 years. Since about 1974, Kettering has gradually developed
a "new" type of composition, based on the overtone discoveries
of the ancient Greek scholar and philosopher Pythagoras.
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