Charles Naginski
Charles Naginski was born in Cairo in 1909 and raised in Egypt. He came to the United States at age 18 to study composition at Juilliard. His promising career was cut short when he accidentally drowned in 1940, in Lenox, Massacusetts, while studying with Paul Hindemith at Tanglewood. Other teachers included Rubin Goldmark and Roger Sessions.
Charles Naginski was born in Cairo, Egypt on May 29, 1909. His premature death by drowning in Lenox, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1940, cut short a remarkably promising career as a composer. The marked talent for composition that Naginski evidenced at a very early age was recognized by his father, his first piano teacher. From 1928 to 1933 Naginski held a fellowship at the Juilliard Graduate School as a pupil of Rubin Goldmark. Later he studied at the American Academy in Rome, winning the American Prix de Rome in 1938.
The catalogue of his works includes an orchestra suite (1931); two string quartets (1933); an orchestra poem (1936); Sinfonietta (1937); Three Movements for chamber orchestra (1937); The Minotaur, ballet for orchestra (1938); Nocturne and Pantomime (1938); Five Pieces from a Children's Suite (Boston, 1940); and songs.
The songs, although limited in number, are of high quality and deserve a wide public.
–Class Voice and the American Art Song: A Source Book and Anthology by Helen Lightner
Charles Naginski songs
Naginski Collection
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Look Down, Fair Moon
Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Pasture
Under the Harvest Moon
To The Soul - Poetry Of Walt Whitman
(Ernst Bacon, Leonard Bernstein, Henry Burleigh, Gerald Busby, Philip Dalmas, Charles Ives, Charles Naginski, Ned Rorem, Robert Strassburg, Michael Tilson Thomas, Kurt Weill, Elinor Remick Warren and Walt Whitman)
(Leonard Bernstein, Henry Burleigh, Walter Damrosch, John Woods Duke, Stephen Foster, Charles Griffes, Ned Rorem, Charles Naginski, Clifford Shaw, Traditional, Abraham Wood, Elinor Remick Warren and Kurt Weill)
Americans in Rome
(Robert Beaser, Samuel Barber, Randall Thompson, Charles Naginski, Vittorio Giannini, Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter)
American Songs (Jennifer Larmore)
(Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, John Woods Duke, Jake Heggie, Lee Hoiby, Charles Ives, Charles Naginski and John Jacob Niles)
Povla Frijsh: The Complete Recordings
(Charles Naginski and Randall Thompson)
Composer(s): Charles Naginski
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Songs by 22 Americans
Composer(s): Samuel Barber
John Alden Carpenter
Celius Dougherty
John Duke
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Richard Hageman
William Roy
Gladys Rich
Elinor Remick Warren
Voice Type: High
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