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Beth Anderson

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American neo-romantic composer

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Works
37

Top works

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1947-09-26
Active to
2015-07-30
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Total plays
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There are multiple artists with the name "Beth Anderson" 1) An Australian singer and former member of the Sydney-based band "Emmaus" 2) An American singer and voice actress. 1) After playing in Sydney based band Emmaus for 2 and a half years, and gleaning an arts degree majoring in songwriting, Beth set out to release her album "To the Fall" as a follow up to her EP "Between Beauty And Sorrow" (June 2005). Described as Indie Pop, she is currently located in Perth, WA. <a href="https://www.las

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Quotes

  • The relationship of feminism to my work and the evolution of the form of my music are in violent flux.
  • My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making.
  • To make something beautiful is revolutionary (not low class, not easy, not a sign of low intelligence).
  • The idea that beauty is revolution is a revelation to me. I once believed that the concept of the music was more important than the sound, that the politics of the notation was more important than the time limits of the rehersals and therefore, more important than the sound of the performance
  • I've rediscovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, that can't add, that can't work from a verbalized concept, that doesn't care about stylish notation, that makes melodies that have pitch and rhythm, that doesn't know anything about zen eternity and gets bored and changes, that isn't worried about being commercial or avant-garde or serial or any other little category. Beauty is enough.
  • Beauty means perfect to me, but it also has an additional meaning having to do with being pleasurable, rather than painful. Beauty is hard to make. The making is painful, and involves a certain amount of craft, and a relaxation of the part of the brain that says, "Don't write that. X wrote those four notes in 1542 or 1979 or 1825 or whatever period you are worried about being influenced by."

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Elizabeth
Family name
Anderson
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Lexington
Occupation
composer
Official website
www.beand.com
Image
Bandersonom.jpg
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date of birth
1950-01-03
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