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Stratton Rawson is an independent film producer, screenwriter and music critic, who is also a senior producer at WNED-FM in Buffalo, New York, where he has been called, "Buffalo's Leonard Bernstein. WNED-FM is an American radio station broadcasting in Buffalo New York at a frequency of 94 Buffalo (ˈbʌfəloʊ is the second largest city in New York State. " [1]

He grew up in the Hudson Valley of New York State and took up the cello at an early age, spent four years at SUNY Albany, a year of work for the Chancellor of SUNY, two years at the University of Wyoming, and another four years at SUNY Buffalo. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ The University at Albany State University of New York, commonly known as the University at Albany is a Public university located in the capital of New The University of Wyoming is a Land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly known as University at Buffalo (UB is a Coeducational public research University, which [2]

Rawson was one of the screenwriters of Frederick King Keller's Tuck Everlasting (1981). [3] Rawson's films as a producer include My Dark Lady (1987) and Vamping (1984). He has worked on the crew of several films, including The Natural (1984). The Natural is a 1952 novel about Baseball written by Bernard Malamud.

The recording Christophe Columb (Mode, 1992) featured Rawson as the Magician and narrator. This was a 1992 production of a 1940 BBC Radio play by William Aguet with music by Arthur Honegger. Arthur Honegger (March 10 1892 &ndash November 27 1955 was a Swiss Composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. A Downtown Music Gallery review detailed the background on this production:

The art of the radio-play was a very important and respected creative mode of entertainment in Europe before the age of television, where subsidized radio stations encouraged experiments in this medium. Composers such as Britten, Hindemith, Gerhard, and Honegger were quick to take up the challenge, composing memorable scores which were designed from the start as close collaborations with poets and dramatists. Honegger was keen to reach the widest possible public while retaining his own musical ideas. He had already collaborated with numerous distinguished writers for the theater and had supplied scores for films, such as Abel Gance's Napoleon. All of this experience made readied him for a collaboration with William Aguet when Christophe Colomb was proposed for Radio Lausanne in 1940. Christophe Colomb is an ambitious radio-play, scored for 10 actors, an orchestra of 40 musicians, plus a large chorus with soloists. Perhaps it is due to these unusual forces that the piece faded into obscurity after its radio premiere. Through much hard work, Opera Sacra of Buffalo, New York reconstructed Christoph Colomb from the original manuscript and performed it with a new English translation of Aguet's surprisingly astute and politically correct text. [4]

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Classical top ten

As a music critic and member of the WNED music staff, Rawson compiled his Classical Top Ten list:

References

  1. ^ "ArtsBeat," The Buffalo News, April 28, 2008.
  2. ^ "Stratton Rawson," WNED-FM, Buffalo.
  3. ^ Canby, Vincent. "Katharine Hepburn and Friends," The New York Times, June 5, 1981.
  4. ^ Downtown Music Gallery; Christophe Colomb

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