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Gordon Getty: Music
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Getty was raised in San Francisco, California, attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory, and earned a B.A. in music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He married Ann Gilbert in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Christmas Day, 1964. The wedding was witnessed by William Newsom, Gordon's longtime friend, and father of Gavin Newsom.
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The College of Music will present "Saint and Scribe," a concert featuring Gordon Getty's Joan and the Bells and Samuel Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard on Sunday, May 6, 2001, at 7:30 p.m. in Roussel Hall. Meg Hulley, assistant professor of music and coordinator of choral activities at Loyola, will direct the Loyola University Chorus and Chorale, members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Loyola Symphony Orchestra.
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The cantata, in three movements, uses its large chorus for telling Getty's dramatic musicalization of the Judgment (the trial), meditation (Joan in Her Chamber), and execution and ascension (The Square at Rouen). The open, modal, often chant-like sounds of the large chorus are contrasted by the angry sounds of Joan's inquisitor, Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvis, who led the prosecution of Joan in 1431 for heresy and witchcraft, and the poignant, powerful sounds of Joan herself as she works her way through the torment of misguided Christian fervor. The contrastingly brutal and sublime orchestration which drives "Joan of the Bells" from anguish to exhilaration overflows with theatrical power on one hand and sublime personal introspection on the other.
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Why: A family friend of Mayor Newsom, the heir of the Getty fortune gives millions away to charity and manages to find time to compose classical music. If he wanted to, he could run the most expensive political campaign in history without battling an eyelash.
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