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Gordon Getty: San Francisco
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Born in Los Angeles in 1933, Gordon Getty has lived in San Francisco since 1945. He graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1956 with a B.S. degree in English literature, having meanwhile studied piano with the late Robert Vetleson and voice with Easton Kent. Following six months of active duty in the army and four years in family businesses, he studied music theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Today, Getty is a frequent visiting composer at colleges and universities across the country and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Maryland, Pepperdine University, the University of California San Francisco, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Mannes College of Music.
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Gordon Getty first introduced his opera "Plump Jack," of which he ... authored the libretto, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in 1984. Since then it has been presented in concert versions with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and recently in London with the philharmonic and chorus of that city and international soloists.
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Billy's parents, Gordon and Ann Getty, were so impressed with Leavitt/Weaver's work that they hired the team to work for them, too. The designers turned the Getty's much-used 727 (known around San Francisco as the "Jetty") into what is said to be one of the world's most stylish aircrafts. Leavitt/Weaver is now helping to redo the family's Pacific Heights mansion (so long, Sister Parish). They have ... produced an extensive line of furniture, available through Randolph and Hein and other showrooms across the country.
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Klein and oil heir Mark Getty, who lives in London and is the son of the late Paul Getty and nephew of businessman and philanthropist Gordon Getty of San Francisco, founded the company in London in 1995. The co-founders acquired a small stock photo business, Tony Stone Images, and set out to "aggregate a fragmented mom-and-pop industry, to build it into a broadly based picture business," said Klein.
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Los Angeles' new Getty Center, which opened late last year to crowds as large as Disneyland's, is an indelible monument to the family name. Its 110-acre site in the foothills o the Santa Monica Mountains, anchored by an acropolis of Richard Meier buildings that house the art museum and institutes, makes it the century's most ambitious museum project. Meanwhile, 400 miles away in San Francisco, family scion Billy Getty has been putting the finishing touches on his own design scheme. The endeavor may have a far smaller scale, but Getty's 5500 - square - foot penthouse breaks its own ground as an innovative space.
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This SACD is a vocal/orchestral collection by San Francisco composer Gordon Getty: four choral works and an operatic scene. The music has a kind of charming, late-Romantic appeal, spiced with some more modern harmonic touches. If you listen to the program straight through you notice that Getty relies on particular mannerisms, such as setting a line of poetry to an upward-rushing musical line, holding on a chord, then descending rapidly in a mirror image of the initial gesture. And after a while, the music does seem a little too well-behaved for its own good. For example, one of the poems in Victorian Scenes is "Blow, Bugle, Blow" from Tennyson's The Princess, which Benjamin Britten included in his famous Serenade. There, where it contrasts with much darker, more dangerous music, Britten achieves a stunningly evocative effect with these lyrics.
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