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Robert Helps
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American composer and pianist (1928–2001)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 9
Top works
- New music for the piano
- The voluntary organizations and the mobilisation of the Medway towns in 1914
- 3 études [for] piano
- Portrait [for] piano
- Quartet for piano
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1928
- Active to
- 2001
Discography
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- Listeners
- 531
- Total plays
- 2,169
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Robert Helps (1928-2001) was an American pianist and composer. He was one of the most distinguished pupils of Abby Whiteside and perhaps the most well-known practitioner of her theories of rhythm and of a technique directed from the humerus rather than the fingers. He studied composition with Roger Sessions, who exerted a strong influence on his career, and whose music he often performed and recorded. Helps taught piano at the New England Conservatory of Music <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
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- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 38,853x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,234x
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Described at
Helps, Robert – American Composers Alliance
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composers.com →Robert Helps (1928-2001) tribute by Milton Babbitt: "Robert Helps is not only the pianist's pianist, and the composer's composer, he is also the pianist's composer and the composer's pianist, for, since his teen-age performance of music that was deemed unperformable, he has played incomparably: compositions which other pianists could not or would not perform. The singular pianistic mastery which he brought to these performances moulds his own writing for piano, from which pianists have discovered resources of nuance, rhythmic subtlety, dynamic control, and sound which endow their own playing with a new sensitivity and sensibility. His chamber and orchestral compositions are not pianistic transcriptions, but the fresh realization of the same awareness in these non-pianistic media. He long has been a legend in his own time and he deserves it." Milton Babbitt (1996) photo (c) James Gudeman, from the ACA Archives, Special Collections in Performing Arts, University of Maryland.
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- date of birth
- 1928-09-23
- date of death
- 2001-12-01
- described at URL
- composers.com/robert-helps
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