Regina Hansen Willman

Regina Kastberg Hansen Willman (October 5, 1914-October 28, 1965) was an American composer, born in Burns, Wyoming.[1] She married Allan Arthur Willman[2] in 1942; they divorced in 1956, but remained close throughout her life. Willman received a B.M. from the University of Wyoming in 1945, and a M.M. from the University of New Mexico in 1961. She studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College, Roy Harris at Colorado College,[3] and pursued further studies at the University of California, Berkeley, the Juilliard School, the Sorbonne, and the Lausanne Conservatory.[4] Willman was the resident composer of the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, from 1956-57 and 1960-61. Her papers are archived at the University of Wyoming.[5]

Works

Regina Willman's compositions include:

Ballet
  • Doves (piano)
  • Legend of the Willow Plate (1949; chamber orchestra)

Orchestra
  • Anchorage Symphony
  • Design for Orchestra 1 (1948)
  • Design for Orchestra 2 (1953)[6]

Piano
  • Little Tailor Suite
  • Steel Mill (1941; two pianos)[7]
  • Three Compositions for Piano

Theatre

Vocal
  • Ante Vero Longam (1961; tenor solo, men's chorus, oboe, and piano; text by Lambertus)
  • Apres le Deluge (1961; high voice an piano; text by Arthur Rimbaud)
  • First Holy Sonnet (voice and string trio; text by John Donne)[8]
  • O Sleep Now (1956; medium voice and piano)
  • Vocalise (voices and low strings)

References
  1. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Hennessee, Don A. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  2. Pool, Jeannie G. American composer Zenobia Powell Perry : race and gender in the 20th century. Perry, Zenobia Powell. Lanham, Md. ISBN 978-0-8108-6376-7. OCLC 239233280.
  3. Pfitzinger, Scott. Composer genealogies : a compendium of composers, their teachers, and their students. Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-4422-7225-5. OCLC 961457738.
  4. Cohen, Aaron I. International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
  5. "Results for 'au:Willman, Regina,' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  6. Division, New York Public Library Music (1981). Bibliographic Guide to Music. G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-6961-0.
  7. Phi, Phi Kappa (1941). Phi Kappa Phi Journal. Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
  8. Stewart-Green, Miriam. (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8498-4. OCLC 6815939.
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