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Ruth Anderson

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American musician (1928–2019)

Person · Open Library

Works
13

Top works

  • Good Judgment Does Not Embarrass the Bureau
  • Elizabethan psychology and Shakespeare's plays
  • Community
  • She Is Not Different
  • Spin a Woolly Yarn - Sam the Shearer's Kid and other humourous country yarns

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1947-09-26
Active to
2015-07-30
americancountrycountry popcountry singernashville sound

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Listeners
2,772
Total plays
8,301

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Ruth Anderson (born March 21, 1928 in Montana) is a composer, orchestrator, and flautist. She is a lesbian whose music is influenced by her study of Zen. She lives in New York during the winter and in Montana during the summer. Her sound poem I Come Out of Your Sleep (revised and recorded on Sinopah 1997 XI) is constructed from speech sounds in Louise Bogan's poem "Little Lobelia." According to the composer "a very soft dynamic level is an integral component of this piece. <a href="https://www.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Ruth
Family name
Anderson
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Kalispell
Place of death
The Bronx
Occupation
composer
Languages spoken
English language
Student of
Darius Milhaud
Instrument
flute
Image
Portrait of Ruth Anderson Composer.png
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name in native language
Ruth Anderson
date of birth
1928-03-21
date of death
2019-11-29
cause of death
lung cancer
manner of death
natural causes
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