Talk:William Bolcom

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Biography assessment rating comment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article.-- Jreferee 23:14, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Why mention festivals?
Is there any particular reason for mentioning his recent music festivals? I don't see any similar entries for other living composers. Colophony (talk) 16:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Proposed Merging from List of compositions by William Bolcom
I have proposed the merging because the article List of compositions by William Bolcom has very less content and that too without any references. In the other hand, the article William Bolcom doesn't have much content by itself. So I don't see why not merge the article. Thanks. undefined tausif ( talk )  15:34, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The usual trend on Wikipedia lately (by which I mean the last three or four years) has been to split off lists of composition from composer biographies, whenever those lists become substantially complete and, therefore, unwieldy. The Bolcom list looks fairly complete to me, even if his output does not rival in quantity the works of, say, Vivaldi, Handel, Villa-Lobos, or Hovhaness. As to the issue of lack of content in this main biographical article, incorporating a mindless list of works is a poor substitute for expansion in prose, where the significance of particularly notable works, their performance history, and critical reception can usefully be included.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 17:05, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per Jerome, SageGreenRider (talk) 17:49, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

May 2024
Would you consider adding the following article to External Links? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370773209_William_Bolcom_From_Rags_to_Riches William Bolcom: from Rags to Riches by Linda Holzer, in Piano & Keyboard, January 1997

The article was published in a journal that is no longer in print, and spotlights Bolcom's piano music, with special focus on his Pulitzer Prize-winning work Twelve New Etudes for Piano. By linking to the article via ResearchGate, it gives people access to the information about the composer's music, which is still in print, and may potentially more pianists to buy and study the music. The article has been cited in two books: Maurice Hinson Guide to the Pianist’s Repertoire, 4th edition Indiana University Press, 2013 Donald Patterson One-Handed: A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand Greenwood Publishing, 1999