Composer Ben Johnston

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Composer

Ben Johnston

Living place: Georgia

Birthday: 15-3-1926 (98 years old)

Population of US 1926: 117,397,000

Global rank: #53910

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Composer Ben Johnston profile

Who is Composer Ben Johnston?
Skilled musician who is known for composing contemporary music only in intonation. He contributed a lot of microtonal music.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959, granted by the National Council for the Arts and Humanities in 1966, and has received a commission from the Smithsonian Institution.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He worked with composer and music theorist Harry Partch, from whom he learned only intonation. He would then expand upon the Partch theory taught.

Family life info

His family lived in Macon, Georgia, when he was born.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Composer Ben Johnston?
He encountered such pioneering musicians as La Monte Young, Iannis Xenakis, and John Cage while teaching section and theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1951 until 1986.

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When was Composer Ben Johnston born?
Ben Johnston birthday 15-3-1926 (at the age of 98).
Where is Composer Ben Johnston's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Ben Johnston was born in Georgia, . is a Composer, whose Zodiac is Pisces, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Ben Johnston's global rank is 53910 and whose rank is 371 in list of famous Composer. Population of US in 1926 is about 117,397,000 persons.
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Events in 1926 and 15-3

Events in US in the birth year of Ben Johnston

  • U.S. troops land in Nicaragua (May 2) to preserve order after a revolt against the new president Emiliano Chamorro.
  • Father Coughlin makes his first radio broadcast, beginning his 20-year career of racist and right-wing polemics.

Birthday Ben Johnston (15-3) in history

  • Day 15-3 year 44 B.C: Julius Caesar was murdered by a group of Cimber, Casca, Cassius, and Marcus led by Junius Brutus in the senate on the 74th day of the Roman calendar, "Ides of March."
  • Day 15-3 year 1493: The great Italian explorer Columbus returned to Spain after his first expedition to the Western Hemisphere.
  • Day 15-3 year 1820: Maine officially becomes the 23rd state of the United States.
  • Day 15-3 year 1917: Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, is forced to abdicate his throne (March 2, old style calendar).
  • Day 15-3 year 1937: The first hospital blood bank in the United States was established, in Chicago, at Cook County Hospital.
  • Day 15-3 year 1965: President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote.
  • Day 15-3 year 2003: Hu Jintao was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China.
  • Day 15-3 year 2004: Scientists reported the discovery of Sedna, the most distant object in the solar system.
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