Dr. 弗朗西斯McBeth

阿肯色州桂冠作曲家，1954年毕业

威廉·弗朗西斯·麦克白对音乐界做出了贡献, 不仅仅是通过他的作品和表演, 还通过教导一代又一代的音乐家. In his own words, “A great teacher teaches people, not just a course. All people are self-taught; the teacher is only a guide. 你只能希望你的导游有一张正确的地图.“麦克白确实有一张正确的地图.

麦克白于1933年3月9日出生在德克萨斯州罗佩斯维尔的家中. Entrenched in a musical family, he developed an early appreciation for music. 他的父亲教他吹小号. 约瑟夫·菲尼斯·麦克白, 谁是牛仔乐队的特许成员, young McBeth played in his church orchestra before he even started school. He credits his father as being the greatest teacher he had ever known. 他记得最早的一堂课是在他五岁的时候, when his father bought him a small notebook 和 on the first page inscribed Francis’s name 和 then in large letters wrote, 《澳门皇冠赌场平台》.” Each week young Francis was asked to think of a rule, 和 his father would write it in the book. 麦克白的第一条原则是:“不要把泥巴溅到朋友身上。.” As a young boy in West Texas, McBeth applied those important lessons learned from his father. He was always careful while delivering newspapers from his horse to avoid riding onto customer’s front lawns when it had rained.

在他高中的时候, McBeth’s family relocated to the Dallas area where he was inserted into a vibrant community of well-rounded musicians. This eclectic musical influence squelched his discomfort at being the only person he knew who liked both Jazz 和 Brahms. 也是在高中, 麦克白踢足球, 西德克萨斯的金手套冠军是谁, 和, 当然, 参加乐队, 他是从哪里开始编曲的.

毕业后, 他来到澳门皇冠赌场平台, 他父亲的母校, 在牛仔乐队指挥马里恩·B的指挥下演奏. 麦克卢尔和为乐队谱曲. 麦克白后来称赞了麦克卢尔的友谊, 鼓励, 爱是他开始写作生涯的原因.

McBeth lists his most memorable Cowboy B和 performance as traveling with the Eisenhower for President Texas delegation to Madison Square Garden. 演出结束后, 乐队收到一封电报，上面写着, “when Eisenhower is nominated at least 50 percent of credit will belong to Texas delegation 和 Hardin-Simmons大学 B和…” He also performed with the Cowboy B和 during its 1952-1953 USO tour. In 1954 McBeth received the Presley Medal, the highest honor awarded to a Cowboy B和 member.

In 1953, he married his high school sweetheart, 玛丽 Sue White. In 1959 they welcomed daughter Laura to the family, 和 son Matthew debuted in 1964. 1955年毕业后不久, McBeth entered military service where he played in the 101st Airborne Division B和 和 in the 98th Army B和. 在军队期间，他继续作曲，创作了《澳门皇冠赌场平台》. 到目前为止，他最长的作品是45分钟.

1956年从军队退役后, 麦克白斯被德克萨斯大学录取, 他是否扩大了他的表演范围, 尤其是在管弦乐中, 写了第一号交响曲. 2. 在麦克白完成他主人的作品之后, he joined the faculty of the small music department at Ouachita Baptist College in 1957. 在指挥瓦希托乐队六年之后, he took a one-year leave of absence to pursue his doctorate at the Eastman School of Music. Upon his return, he became the chairman of the theory/composition department.

In 1960, Second Suite for B和 became his first published work. However, Chant 和 Jubilo, published in 1961, was his clarion. 在圣歌和朱庇罗的广泛呼吁之后, people discovered Second Suite for B和 和 started asking for First Suite. At this point, McBeth admitted that there wasn’t a First Suite for B和. He had called his first work Second Suite because he didn’t want to look like a beginner. 他后来写了《澳门皇冠赌场平台》. Chant 和 Jubilo became 和 remains one of the best selling b和 pieces in the world.

He was conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in Little Rock from 1968 until 1972, 随后，他被选为名誉指挥. 1996年从瓦希托大学退休后, 他被任命为受托人的杰出大学教授.

Just a few of his many awards are the highly coveted Howard Hanson Prize, given by the Eastman School of Music in 1963 for his Third Symphony, the President’s Award for Creative Writing from Ouachita University every year from 1959 to 1969, the ASCAP Special Award each consecutive year from 1965 to the present, 和 the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s Sudler Medal of Honor in 1999. He received an honorary doctorate in music from Hardin-Simmons in 1971, 并于1996年获中大杰出校友奖.

In 1975, McBeth was appointed Composer Laureate of the State of Arkansas by the governor—the first such appointment in the United States. 他是美国演奏家协会的成员, 全国乐队协会, 是, Kappa Kappa Psi, 的, 荣誉音乐学会, 和 contributing editor of the Instrumentalist Magazine 和 American Society of Composers, 作者, 和出版商.

McBeth has consistently been in the top group of the most performed American symphonic 和 wind composers the past 40 years, 作为指挥和讲师, he travels nine months of the year 和 has conducted in 48 of the 50 states, 以及澳大利亚, 加拿大, 欧洲, 和日本.

His most memorable conducting experience was in 1998, after the U.S. Marine Corps B和 commissioned a work from him for their 200th anniversary. He was one of only two non-military conductors for the performance at the Kennedy Center. At a pre-concert reception on the south lawn of the White House, 前总统比尔·克林顿, 他从克林顿年轻时在阿肯色州就认识他了, 邀请弗朗西斯, 玛丽, 和 their daughter Laura to spend the night at the White House. Concerned that this would impinge on the president’s time 和 hospitality, 麦克白竭力婉言拒绝. After a kick in the leg from Laura 和 the President’s assurance, “别担心, 这是一栋大房子,他接受了. McBeth was moved by the experience of sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom 和 laying his watch 和 billfold on the very table at which Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

McBeth often says a composer must have a general sketch of the entire piece before proceeding. 在开始一项工作之前，你必须知道它将如何结束. 在他生命的构成中, 甚至McBeth, 作曲大师、教师, couldn’t have foreseen the great symphony in progress we have shared with you today. 我们为W感到骄傲. 弗朗西斯McBeth 和 look forward to the many movements yet to come.

It is the high honor of Hardin-Simmons大学 to recognize one of her own 和 to formally induct W. 弗朗西斯·麦克贝斯进入哈佛大学领袖堂.