Robert Ward
Robert Ward (born 13 September 1917; died 3 April 2013) was a Robert Ward studied at Juilliard School and John Adams High School. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera.
Also recorded as Robert Eugene Ward
Robert Ward
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- Born
- 1917 · Cleveland.
- Died
- 2013 · Durham.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- conductor · composer · musicologist · music educator · university teacher
- Fields
- opera
- Education
- Juilliard School · John Adams High School
- Known for
- The Crucible
- Honours
- Bronze Star Medal · Pulitzer Prize for Music · Arts and Letters Award in Music · North Carolina Award for Fine Arts · North Carolina Award · Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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Robert Ward (born 13 September 1917; died 3 April 2013) was a Robert Ward studied at Juilliard School and John Adams High School. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera.
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Life and work
Life and work
Ward worked between 1917 and 2013 across conductor, composer, musicologist, music educator and university teacher. The registers place that work in opera. This article rests on 23 catalogued compositions, 81 published texts, 1 issued recordings, 1 digitised documents and 46 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Robert Ward studied at Juilliard School and John Adams High School. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Employment is recorded with Duke University, Juilliard School and University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Works named in the authority record are The Crucible. Distinctions recorded are Bronze Star Medal, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Arts and Letters Award in Music and North Carolina Award for Fine Arts.
Robert Ward was born on 13 September 1917 in Cleveland. Ward held the nationality of United States. Ward was educated at Juilliard School and John Adams High School. Ward worked as conductor, composer, musicologist and music educator, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them university teacher. Ward worked in New York City. Ward was employed by Duke University, Juilliard School and University of North Carolina School of the Arts. The fields Ward worked in include opera. Ward worked in English.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
Explore 1917–2013
The full dated record · 10 entries
1917
Robert Ward born at Cleveland.
1946
Receives Arts and Letters Award in Music.
1949
Receives Guggenheim Fellowship.
1950
Receives Guggenheim Fellowship.
1962
Receives Pulitzer Prize for Music.
1966
Receives Guggenheim Fellowship.
1975
Receives North Carolina Award for Fine Arts.
1975
Receives North Carolina Award.
2013
Dies at Durham.
2013
Robert Ward died at Durham.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Cleveland.
Birth place
Durham.
Death place
Compositions, 1956–2000
Catalogued output
Compositions, 1956–2000
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. The run opens with He Who Gets Slapped and closes with The Crucible — 19 catalogued parts. They belong to a run of 4 titles in all, from 1956 to 2000.
3 compositions carry dates between 1956 and 2000
He Who Gets Slapped
1956
Abelard and Heloise
1982
The Crucible — 19 catalogued parts
2000
Compositions without a settled date
Catalogued output
Compositions without a settled date
1 further composition are catalogued under Ward's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it.
I do not judge you, John
Catalogued output
Writings on music
These are catalogued publications carrying the name — editions and printings, distinct from the works they contain and from writing about the subject. The run opens with Anima'dversions of vvarre; or, A militarie magazine of the truest rules, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre and closes with Maritime Decarbonization. The 2010s are the densest part of the run, with 30 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it.
81 editions carry dates between 1639 and 2023
The entries follow Open Library
Anima'dversions of vvarre; or, A militarie magazine of the truest rules, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre
1639
The fallacies of teetotalism, or, The duty of the legislature in dealing with personal freedom, and an elucidation of the dietetic and medicinal virtues of alcoholic liquors
1872
Life among the Maories of New Zealand
1872
The constitution of the earth
1880
Some fruits of the great famine
1902
Fucus histriomastix
1909
Administrative decisions and judicial review
1941
Kitab a indil
1971
So kitab a indil
1972
So kitab a indil, so mapia a totol ko mipantag ki Isa Masih a inisorat i Matio
1974
The complete catalogue · 60
81 editions carry dates between 1639 and 2023
The entries follow Open Library
Anima'dversions of vvarre; or, A militarie magazine of the truest rules, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre
1639
The fallacies of teetotalism, or, The duty of the legislature in dealing with personal freedom, and an elucidation of the dietetic and medicinal virtues of alcoholic liquors
1872
Life among the Maories of New Zealand
1872
The constitution of the earth
1880
Some fruits of the great famine
1902
Fucus histriomastix
1909
Administrative decisions and judicial review
1941
Kitab a indil
1971
So kitab a indil
1972
So kitab a indil, so mapia a totol ko mipantag ki Isa Masih a inisorat i Matio
1974
So taorat
1974
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1979
The Sandman
1980
Kitab Indil
1981
Red Baker
1985
Debugging C
1986
Democratizing Japan
1987
MS-DOS system programming
1990
Microcosmus
1991
Sexual Offences
1993
Reports of Randolph and Barradall on Decisions of the General Court of Virginia, 1728-1741
1994
Real photo postcards
1994
The King of the Cards
1995
King of Cards
1998
Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy
2002
Integration and Independence of Perception and Action
2002
Virgin Trails
2002
Labor Revolt In Alabama
2003
London's New River
2003
Options and Options Trading
2004
Nelson Algren
2006
All the Good Pilgrims
2007
Lectures From New Zealand, Addressed To Young Men
2007
Total Immunity
2009
Natural Language, Computer-Assisted Learning and Language-Impaired Children
2010
Computer-Assisted Language Learning for Deaf Children
2010
Famous for Suits
2011
Sandman
2011
Ancestors and Relatives
2011
The Best Bad Dream
2012
Second Chance
2012
Shedding Skin
2012
Grace
2012
Four Kinds of Rain
2012
Understanding James Leo Herlihy
2012
Best Bad Dream
2012
Delivered Out of the Lion's Mouth
2013
Essays of Sage Brush
2013
Wealth and Notoriety
2013
Wealth and Notability
2014
Cactus Garden
2014
The Manner of the Mourning
2015
Teacher Tune-Up
2015
Firm, Fair, Fascinating Facilitator
2015
Independence and Integration of Perception and Action
2015
Mercado de ações para Iniciantes
2016
Teacher's Inside Advice to Parents
2016
Short Stories from Silverdale Village Lancashire
2017
A further 18 recorded entries stand behind this article and are held on the record.
Teaching
Ward taught, and is recorded as music educator and university teacher. The work is documented at Duke University, Juilliard School, University of North Carolina School of the Arts and American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Primary material
Documents and archives
institutional register
- Bibliothèque nationale de France authority file 12475618h
General reference · Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Discogs authority file 1958163
General reference · Discogs
- FAST authority file 1861894
General reference · FAST
- GND (German National Library) authority file 118877615
General reference · GND (German National Library)
- ISNI authority file 0000000114682194
General reference · ISNI
- Library of Congress authority file n80008239
General reference · Library of Congress
Institutional database
- MusicBrainz artist record for Robert Ward
Scholarly · MetaBrainz Foundation
- OpenStreetMap gazetteer entry for Robert, Pailles Branch Road, Canal Dayot, Camp Chapelon, Town of Port-Louis, Ward 2, North, Port Louis, 90802, Mauritius / Maurice
Scholarly · OpenStreetMap Foundation
scholarly publication
- Ward, Robert (opera), Oxford Music Online, 2002
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2002
Where the work is held
Honours and awards
They run from 1946 to 1975.
8 honours stand against the name
Bronze Star Medal
Arts and Letters Award in Music
1946
Guggenheim Fellowship
1949
Pulitzer Prize for Music
1962
North Carolina Award for Fine Arts
1975
North Carolina Award
1975
Literature
Further cited scholarship
6 scholarly and reference publications are cited here, each one identified by title and by the publication, publisher or institution that carried it, with its year where the register states one. The cited literature runs from 1935 to 2022, which is a measure of how long Ward has been a subject of scholarship rather than of how much has been written. The publications represented include Yearbook of German-American Studies, Robert Ward's the Crucible, American National Biography Online, Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, African Studies Newsletter and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The Encyclopedia cites this literature and does not summarise the arguments of works it has not read in full.
Ward (1937–2017): In Memoriam, Yearbook of German-American Studies, 2022
Robert Ward: A Biography, Robert Ward's the Crucible, 2008
Johnson, Robert Ward (1814-1879), Arkansas political leader and member of both the U.S. Congress and the Confederate Congress, American National Biography Online, 2000
Robert DeCourcy Ward 1867 - 1931, Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, 1983
Progress Report from Robert E. Ward Regarding Title VI Funds, African Studies Newsletter, 1973
THE ROBERT DECOURCY WARD CLIMATOLOGICAL COLLECTION, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 1935
Authority records
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
Institutional database
MusicBrainz artist record for Robert WardMetaBrainz Foundation
Institutional witnessInstitutional database
OpenStreetMap gazetteer entry for Robert, Pailles Branch Road, Canal Dayot, Camp Chapelon, Town of Port-Louis, Ward 2, North, Port Louis, 90802, Mauritius / MauriceOpenStreetMap Foundation
Institutional witnessscholarly publication
Ward, Robert (opera), Oxford Music Online, 2002Crossref registry
Institutional witnessinstitutional register
Bibliothèque nationale de France authority file 12475618hBibliothèque nationale de France
Secondary witnessinstitutional register
Secondary witnessinstitutional register
Secondary witnessinstitutional register
GND (German National Library) authority file 118877615GND (German National Library)
Secondary witnessinstitutional register
Secondary witness
Every cited source · 12
- 01
- 02
OpenStreetMap gazetteer entry for Robert, Pailles Branch Road, Canal Dayot, Camp Chapelon, Town of Port-Louis, Ward 2, North, Port Louis, 90802, Mauritius / Maurice
Institutional database · Scholarly
Consult the source - 03
- 04
Bibliothèque nationale de France authority file 12475618h
institutional register · General reference · Bibliothèque nationale de France
Consult the source - 05
Discogs authority file 1958163
institutional register · General reference · Discogs
Consult the source - 06
- 07
GND (German National Library) authority file 118877615
institutional register · General reference · GND (German National Library)
Consult the source - 08
ISNI authority file 0000000114682194
institutional register · General reference · ISNI
Consult the source - 09
Library of Congress authority file n80008239
institutional register · General reference · Library of Congress
Consult the source - 10
MusicBrainz artist authority
institutional register · General reference · MusicBrainz
Consult the source - 11
- 12
Wikidata, structured authority record Q1695243: Robert Ward
institutional register · General reference · Wikimedia Foundation
Consult the source
Further particulars
Held on the record
Further particulars
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He was employed by Duke University, Juilliard School and University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He belonged to American Academy of Arts and Letters. He worked at New York City. Ward received Bronze Star Medal, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Arts and Letters Award in Music, North Carolina Award for Fine Arts, North Carolina Award and Guggenheim Fellowship. He Who Gets Slapped. Naming and authority record.
Career and activity
Recognition and collections
Ward, Robert, Oxford Music Online, 2001
Ward, Robert (opera), Oxford Music Online, 2002
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