Claudio Spies (1925-2020) was a Chilean-American composer. While teaching at Harvard Summer School in 1968, Spies conducted the first performances of four preliminary versions of Stravinsky's Les Noces along with a performance of the final version. At that session, he also conducted various works of Schoenberg and Anton Webern. Some of the musical comments shared between Spies and Stravinsky were reflected in articles written by Spies in several issues of Perspectives of New Music dealing with new works by Stravinsky.
Portrait courtesy of the Spies family
Studios
Chapman
Claudio Spies worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman
Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her
husband, composer George Alexander Chapman.
Symmetrically
massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural,
unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of
slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central,
peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…
