Discipline: Music Composition

David Wooldridge

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Bridgewater, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982
David Wooldridge (1927-1998) was a British conductor and composer. Wooldridge studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the Vienna Music Academy. From 1954-55 he was a conductor at the Bavarian State Opera. Then he worked until 1968 as a guest conductor for various American orchestras. He was also musical director of the Beirut Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1965 and then the Cape Town Orchestra until 1968. He composed an orchestral partita, a viola concerto, and film scores, and was author of the book Conductors' World (1970) and a biography of Charles Ives (1974). In 1951 he was awarded the Composition Prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society in London.

Studios

New Jersey

David Wooldridge worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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