Hawley ades biography
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Hawley Ades
American choral arranger
Hawley Ades was an American choral arranger, born in Wichita, Kansas on June 25, 1908. He died March 26, 2008, at the age of 99, three months shy of his 100th birthday.[1] He was the son of two professional musicians; choral director Lucius Ades, and concert pianist and teacher Mary Findley Ades.
Hawley Ades graduated from Rutgers College in 1929. He was hired as a staff arranger for Irving Berlin's publishing company, where from 1932 to 1936 he made hundreds of stock arrangements for the leading dance bands of the day, including special arrangements for Raymond Scott and Paul Whiteman.
In 1937, he was hired as a choral arranger for Fred Waring's very popular group, The Pennsylvanians, and was a mainstay for the next 38 years. Fred Waring often introduced Ades on concert tours by saying that "more people play and sing his arrangements than those of any other arranger in history.”
He became one of the most prolific choral arrangers of the 20th Century. His arrangements - published by Waring's Shawnee Press - are still very popular throughout the US, especially with high school and community choirs.
In 1966, Ades authored the textbook “Choral Arranging”[2] - a standard in the field. He retired from the Waring
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Choral Arranging
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Choral Arranging - Hawley Ades
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PR EFACE T H I S book is written for the choral arranger of today — director. student. Or composer, Its purpose is to present an organized program of study for musicians interested in writing for voices. Both mv work as a choral arranger for professional and amateur groups and my experience teaching choral arranging have pointed to the need for such a book. Though there are a number o f comprehensive texts available to the student o f orchestration, there is not a comparai* work dealing with writing for ‘oiees. W hile tue term "choral arranging" can be applied Io any, vocal writing from simple harmonization of a melody to vocal settings so creative that they are really composition, this book deals with the range of writing between these extremes — that is, practical choral arranging for the musician who wishes make an elfective setting of a partieular piece of musical material for a particular choral group. The composer too ma y lind this presentation o f chorai arranging of value in indicating possible means o f setting his originai musical ideas, though the choral arranger, of course. looks to the composer io expand these techniques_ In fact. because ali of our present chorai arranging techniques stern from great Amai CO