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'''Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder ''' (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980)<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2684}}</ref> was an American composer and author.
==Biography==
Wilder was born in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]], [[New York (state)|New York]], United States,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> to a prominent family; the [[Wilder Building]] downtown (at the "Four Corners") bears the family's name and his maternal grandfather, and namesake, was prominent banker [[Alexander Lafayette Chew]]. As a young boy, he traveled to [[New York City]] with his mother and stayed at the [[Algonquin Hotel]]. It would later be his home for the last 40 or so years of his life.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He attended several [[University-preparatory school|prep school]]s, unhappily, as a teenager. Around this time, he hired a lawyer and essentially "divorced" himself from his family, gaining for himself some portion of the family fortune.
He was largely self-taught as a composer; he studied privately with the composers Herman Inch and Edward Royce, who taught at the [[Eastman School of Music]] in the 1920s, but never registered for classes and never received his degree.<ref>Bowen, Glenn Hamel. "The Clarinet in the Chamber Music of Alec Wilder". (D.M.A. diss., Eastman School of Music, 1968), 2-3.</ref> While there, he edited a humor magazine and scored music for short films directed by [[James Sibley Watson]]. Wilder was eventually awarded an honorary degree in 1973.
He was good friends with [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Peggy Lee]], [[Tony Bennett]] and others who helped develop the [[American popular music]] canon. Among the popular songs he wrote or co-wrote were "[[I'll Be Around (1942 song)|I'll Be Around]]" (a hit for the [[Mills Brothers]]), "While We're Young" (recorded by Peggy Lee and many others), "Blackberry Winter", "Where Do You Go?" (recorded by Sinatra) and "It's So Peaceful in the Country".<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He also wrote many songs for the [[cabaret]] artist [[Mabel Mercer]], including one of her signature pieces, "Did You Ever Cross Over to Sneden's?".<ref>{{cite news| last = Teachout| first = Terry| title = Mabel Mercer: The Subtle Truth | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date = January 6, 2002 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/arts/music-mabel-mercer-the-subtle-truth.html?pagewanted=1 | access-date = 2010-01-23 }}</ref> Wilder occasionally wrote his own lyrics, including for his most famous song "I'll Be Around".<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Other lyricists he worked with included [[Loonis McGlohon]], [[William Engvick]], [[Johnny Mercer]] and [[Fran Landesman]].
In addition to writing popular songs, Wilder also composed [[Classical music|classical]] pieces for unique combinations of orchestral instruments.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> The Alec Wilder Octet, including Eastman classmate [[Mitch Miller]] on oboe, recorded several of his originals for [[Brunswick Records]] in 1938-40. His classical numbers, which often had off-beat, humorous titles ("The Hotel Detective Registers"), were strongly influenced by [[jazz]]. He wrote eleven [[operas]]; one of which, ''Miss Chicken Little'' (1953), was commissioned for television by [[CBS]]. Wilder also arranged a series of [[Christmas carol]]s for [[Tubachristmas]].
Sinatra [[Conductor (music)|conducted]] the Columbia String Orchestra on ''[[Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder]]'', an album of Wilder's classical music (1946). Wilder also contributed two tone poems, "Grey" and "Blue", to the 1956 album, ''[[Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color]]''.
Wilder wrote the definitive book ''American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950'' (1972).<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He was also featured in a radio series based on the book, broadcast in the middle to late 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2009/04/10/102941429/billy-taylor-on-piano-jazzs-debut-episode|title=Billy Taylor On Piano Jazz's Debut Episode|website=Npr.org}}</ref> With lyricist [[Loonis McGlohon]] (his co-host on the radio series) he composed songs for the [[Land of Oz (theme park)|Land of Oz]] [[theme park]] in [[Banner Elk, North Carolina]].<ref>Stone. p. [https://archive.org/details/alecwilderinspit00ston/page/146/mode/2up?q=%22Land+of+Oz%22 146].</ref>
Wilder loved puzzles: he created his own cryptic crosswords, and could spend hours with a [[jigsaw puzzle]].<ref>Stone. pp. [https://archive.org/details/alecwilderinspit00ston/page/48/mode/2up?q=crossword+puzzles 166, 185, 207, 208, 251].</ref> He also loved to talk (he had an encyclopedic knowledge of the world) and most of all, laugh. Displeased with how Peggy Lee improvised the ending of "While We're Young", he wrote her a note: "The next time you come to the bridge [of the song], jump!" Pianist [[Marian McPartland]] told the story of this "alleged" comment to [[Tony Bennett]], on her "Piano Jazz" radio show in 2004.
Wilder died in [[Gainesville, Florida|Gainesville]], [[Florida]], from lung cancer in December 1980,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> and is buried in a Catholic cemetery in [[Avon, New York]], outside Rochester.
==Selected works==
;Opera
*3 children's operas: ''[[The Churkendoose]]''; ''Rachetty Pachetty House'', ''Herman Ermine in Rabbit Town'' (1942)<ref>Slominsky, Nicolas (1988). ''[https://archive.org/details/concisebakersbio0000slon/page/1360/mode/2up?q=%223+children%27s+operas%22+1942 The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians]''. New York: Schirmer Books. p. 1360. {{ISBN|0-02-872411-9}}.</ref>
*''The Lowland Sea'' (1952)
*''Miss Chicken Little'' (1953)
*''Sunday Excursion'' (1953)
*''Kittiwake Island'' (1954)
*''The Long Way'' (1955)
*''The Impossible Forest'' (1958)
*''The Truth about Windmills'' (1973)
*''The Tattooed Countess'' (1974)
*''The Opening'' (1975)
;Musical
*''Pinocchio'' (1957)
*''Hansel and Gretel'' (1958)
*''Miss Chicken Little'' (1953).
*''Nobody’s Earnest'' (1978).
;Film music
*''[[The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film)|The Fall of the House of Usher]]'' (1928)
*''[[Lot in Sodom]]'' (1933)
*''[[Make Mine Music]]'' (1946)
*''[[Albert Schweitzer (film)|Albert Schweitzer]]'' (1957), documentary by [[Jerome Hill]]
*''The Sand Castle'' (1961), directed by Jerome Hill
*''Open the Door and See All the People'' (1964), directed by Jerome Hill
;Large ensemble
*''A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra'' (1954). Text by Marshall Barer. A musical primer. Eighteen movements featuring individual instruments of the orchestra. [Ludlow]
*''[[Names from the War]]'' (1961), for narrator, chorus, brass quintet, and woodwind quintet
*''Children’s Plea for Peace'' (1968). Children's SSAA chorus, narrator and wind ensemble. Text by Wilder, adapted from writings of Avon, New York schoolchildren. Dedicated to Rev. Henry Atwell. [Margun]
;Songs (selected list)
*"[[A Child Is Born (jazz standard)|A Child Is Born]]" (lyrics only)
*"A Long Night"
*"Be a Child"
*"Blackberry Winter"
*"Ellen"
*"Give Me Time"
*"[[I'll Be Around (1942 song)|I'll Be Around]]"
*"It's So Peaceful in The Country"
*"Lovers and Losers"
*"Mimosa and Me"
*"Moon and Sand"
*"Rain Rain"
*"That's My Girl"
*"The April Age"
*"The Rose on The Wind"
*"The Starlighter"
*"The Winter of My Discontent"
*"Trouble is A Man"
*"Walk Pretty"
*"Where Do You Go"
*"While We're Young"
*"Who Can I Turn To"
;Chamber music and solo instruments
*Air for Bassoon and Strings (1945). For Harold Goltzer
*Air for Flute and Strings (1945). For Julius Baker
*Air for Oboe and Strings (1945). For Mitch Miller
*Brass Quintets:
**No 1 (1959) For the New York Brass Quintet
**No 2 (1961)
**No. 3 (1970)
**No. 4 (1973) For Harvey Phillips
**No. 5 (1975) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet
**No. 6 (1977) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet
**No. 7 (1978) For Frances Miller
**No. 8 (1980) For Frances Miller
*Concerto No. 1 for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (1967). For Doc Severinson
*Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Orchestra (1981; written in 1971). For Barry Kilpatrick
*Effie Suite (1960) for Tuba, Vibraphone, Piano and Drums. For Harvey Phillips
*Fantasy for Piano and Wind Ensemble (1974). For Marian McPartland
*Hardy Suite for Piano
*Jazz Suite for Four Horns (1951). Four horns with harpsichord, guitar, bass, drums.
*Octets (1939–41) Flute/Clarinet 2, oboe/English horn/, clarinet 1, bass clarinet, bassoon, harpsichord, bass, drums:
**Bull Fiddle in a China Shop
**The Children Met the Train
**Concerning Etchings
**Dance Man Buys a Farm
**A Debutante's Diary
**Her Old Man Was Suspicious
**His First Long Pants
**House Detective Registers
**It's Silk, Feel It!
**Jack, This Is My Husband
**Kindergarten Flower Pageant
**Little Girl Grows Up
**Little White Samba
**Neurotic Goldfish
**She'll Be Seven in May
**Such a Tender Night
**Walking Home in Spring
*Seven Duets for Horn and Bassoon
*Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1960). For Donald Sinta
*Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano (1969). For George Roberts
*Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1963). For Glenn Bower
*Sonata for Euphonium and Piano (1968)
*Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1963). For Joe Wilder
*Sonata for Viola and Piano (1965)
*Sonata-Fantasy for Piano
*Suite for Flute and Marimba (1977)
*Suite for String Bass and Guitar (1980)
*Suite for Unaccompanied Flute (1975). For Virginia Nanzetta
*Suites for Piano, Nos. 1 to 4
*Suite No. 2 for Tenor Saxophone and Strings (1966). For [[Zoot Sims]]. [Margun]
*Suites for Tuba and Piano:
**Suite No. 1 (1960) for Harvey Phillips
**Suite No. 2 (Jesse Suite)
***Suite No. 3 (Suite for Little Harvey)
**Suite No. 4 (Thomas Suite)
*Three Ballads for Stan [also exists in Wilder's piano reduction as Suite No. 1 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano] (1963). For Stan Getz. [Margun]
*Twelve Duets for Horn and Bassoon
*Twelve Mosaics for Piano
*Un deuxième essai for Piano
*Woodwind Quintets:
**No. 1 (1954) For the [[New York Woodwind Quintet]];
**No. 2 (1956);
**No. 3 (1958);
**No. 4 (1959) For Bernard Garfield;
**No. 5 (1959);
**No. 6 (1960);
**No. 7 (1964);
**No. 8 (1966) [also known as Suite For Non-Voting Quintet;
**No. 9 (1969);
**No. 10 (ca. 1968);
**No. 11 (1971) For John Barrows;
**No. 12 (1975) For the Wingra Quintet;
**No. 13
==Discography==
''Alec Wilder Octet'' (Columbia, 1951)
===Albums as composer===
'''By [[Bob Brookmeyer]]'''
*''[[7 x Wilder]]'' (Verve, 1961)
'''By [[Jackie Cain]] and [[Roy Kral]]'''
*''An Alec Wilder Collection'' (Audiophile, 1990)
'''By [[Meredith D’Ambrosio]]'''
*''Another Time'' (Palo Alto, 1981)
'''By Valerie Errante and Robert Wason'''
*''Songs of Alec Wilder'' (Troy)
'''By [[Eileen Farrell]]'''
*''Eileen Farrell Sings Alec Wilder'' (Reference)<ref name="LarkinGE"/>
''' By [[Ghost Train Orchestra]]'''
*''Book of Rhapsodies'' (Accurate, 2013)
*''Book of Rhapsodies Vol. II'' (Accurate, 2017)
'''By [[Roland Hanna]]'''
*''Roland Hanna Plays the Music of Alec Wilder'' (Tokuma [Japan], 1978)
'''By [[Vic Juris]]'''
*''Music of Alec Wilder'' (Double Time, 1996)
'''By Bob Levy'''
*''Blackberry Winter: Songs by Alec Wilder'' (Mark)
'''By [[Dave Liebman]]'''
*''Lieb Plays Wilder'' (Daybreak, 2003)
'''By [[Mundell Lowe]]'''
*''[[New Music of Alec Wilder]]'' (Riverside, 1956)
'''By [[Marian McPartland]]'''
*''Marian McPartland Plays the Music of Alec Wilder'' (Jazz Alliance)
'''By John Noel Roberts'''
*''Alec Wilder: Music for Piano'' (Albany TROY1294, 2024)
'''By Diana Robinson'''
*''Music of Alec Wilder'' (Multi Media Library)
'''By [[Bob Rockwell]]'''
*''Bob’s Wilder'' (Stunt, 2003)
'''By [[Ben Sidran]]'''
*''Walk Pretty: The Songs of Alec Wilder'' (Go Jazz, 2002)
'''By [[Frank Sinatra]]'''
*''[[Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder]]'' (Columbia, 1946)
'''By [[Marlene VerPlanck]]'''
*''Marlene VerPlanck Sings Alec Wilder'' (Audiophile)
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Sources==
*Wilder, Alec, ''American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950,'' ed. James T. Maher. (New York: Oxford Press, 1972; paperback ed., Oxford Press, 1975), xxxix, 536 pp.
*Wilder, Alec, David Demsey editor, ''Letters I Never Mailed'' Annotated Edition (University of Rochester Press, 2006).
*Stone, Desmond, ''Alec Wilder In Spite of Himself: A Life of the Composer'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 244 pp.
*Demsey, David and Ronald Prather, ''Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography'' (Greenwood Press, 1993) Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 45.
*Zeltsman, Nancy, ed., ''Alec Wilder: An Introduction to the Man and His Music'' (Newton, MA: Margun Music, 1991).
*[http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/acc/wilder.html Alec Wilder page from Classical Net]
*[http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/wilder.html Alec Wilder Collection 1939-2000, from The New York Public Library site]
*{{IMDb name|0928546}}
*[https://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/files/Alec-Wilder-Archive.pdf Alec Wilder Archive at Eastman School of Music]
*[http://www.alecwildercentennial.com Alec Wilder Centennial site]
*[http://wilderworld.podomatic.com 100 records to celebrate 100 years of Alec Wilder...and more!]
*[http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/W.html Opera Glass]
==External links==
*[http://www.alecwildermusicandlife.com/ Alec Wilder Music and Life]
*[http://wilderworld.podomatic.com/ Links to music and articles]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120926115532/http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C77?exhibitId=77 Alec Wilder exhibit at Songwriters Hall Of Fame]
*[http://www.artofsong.net/songs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=157:alec-wilder&catid=36:art-of-song-database-&Itemid=59#mce_temp_url%23 Alec Wilder at Art of Song]
*[http://archives.nypl.org/mus/23065 Alec Wilder papers, 1909-2000] Music Division, The New York Public Library.
* {{discogs artist|Alec Wilder}}
* {{IMDb name|0928546}}
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'''Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder ''' (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980)<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2684}}</ref> was an American composer and author.
==Biography==
Wilder was born in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]], [[New York (state)|New York]], United States,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> to a prominent family; the [[Wilder Building]] downtown (at the "Four Corners") bears the family's name and his maternal grandfather, and namesake, was prominent banker [[Alexander Lafayette Chew]]. As a young boy, he traveled to [[New York City]] with his mother and stayed at the [[Algonquin Hotel]]. It would later be his home for the last 40 or so years of his life.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He attended several [[University-preparatory school|prep school]]s, unhappily, as a teenager. Around this time, he hired a lawyer and essentially "divorced" himself from his family, gaining for himself some portion of the family fortune.
He was largely self-taught as a composer; he studied privately with the composers Herman Inch and Edward Royce, who taught at the [[Eastman School of Music]] in the 1920s, but never registered for classes and never received his degree.<ref>Bowen, Glenn Hamel. "The Clarinet in the Chamber Music of Alec Wilder". (D.M.A. diss., Eastman School of Music, 1968), 2-3.</ref> While there, he edited a humor magazine and scored music for short films directed by [[James Sibley Watson]]. Wilder was eventually awarded an honorary degree in 1973.
He was good friends with [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Peggy Lee]], [[Tony Bennett]] and others who helped develop the [[American popular music]] canon. Among the popular songs he wrote or co-wrote were "[[I'll Be Around (1942 song)|I'll Be Around]]" (a hit for the [[Mills Brothers]]), "While We're Young" (recorded by Peggy Lee and many others), "Blackberry Winter", "Where Do You Go?" (recorded by Sinatra) and "It's So Peaceful in the Country".<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He also wrote many songs for the [[cabaret]] artist [[Mabel Mercer]], including one of her signature pieces, "Did You Ever Cross Over to Sneden's?".<ref>{{cite news| last = Teachout| first = Terry| title = Mabel Mercer: The Subtle Truth | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date = January 6, 2002 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/arts/music-mabel-mercer-the-subtle-truth.html?pagewanted=1 | access-date = 2010-01-23 }}</ref> Wilder occasionally wrote his own lyrics, including for his most famous song "I'll Be Around".<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Other lyricists he worked with included [[Loonis McGlohon]], [[William Engvick]], [[Johnny Mercer]] and [[Fran Landesman]].
In addition to writing popular songs, Wilder also composed [[Classical music|classical]] pieces for unique combinations of orchestral instruments.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> The Alec Wilder Octet, including Eastman classmate [[Mitch Miller]] on oboe, recorded several of his originals for [[Brunswick Records]] in 1938-40. His classical numbers, which often had off-beat, humorous titles ("The Hotel Detective Registers"), were strongly influenced by [[jazz]]. He wrote eleven [[operas]]; one of which, ''Miss Chicken Little'' (1953), was commissioned for television by [[CBS]]. Wilder also arranged a series of [[Christmas carol]]s for [[Tubachristmas]].
Sinatra [[Conductor (music)|conducted]] the Columbia String Orchestra on ''[[Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder]]'', an album of Wilder's classical music (1946). Wilder also contributed two tone poems, "Grey" and "Blue", to the 1956 album, ''[[Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color]]''.
Wilder wrote the definitive book ''American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950'' (1972).<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He was also featured in a radio series based on the book, broadcast in the middle to late 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2009/04/10/102941429/billy-taylor-on-piano-jazzs-debut-episode|title=Billy Taylor On Piano Jazz's Debut Episode|website=Npr.org}}</ref> With lyricist [[Loonis McGlohon]] (his co-host on the radio series) he composed songs for the [[Land of Oz (theme park)|Land of Oz]] [[theme park]] in [[Banner Elk, North Carolina]].<ref>Stone. p. [https://archive.org/details/alecwilderinspit00ston/page/146/mode/2up?q=%22Land+of+Oz%22 146].</ref>
Wilder loved puzzles: he created his own cryptic crosswords, and could spend hours with a [[jigsaw puzzle]].<ref>Stone. pp. [https://archive.org/details/alecwilderinspit00ston/page/48/mode/2up?q=crossword+puzzles 166, 185, 207, 208, 251].</ref> He also loved to talk (he had an encyclopedic knowledge of the world) and most of all, laugh. Displeased with how Peggy Lee improvised the ending of "While We're Young", he wrote her a note: "The next time you come to the bridge [of the song], jump!" Pianist [[Marian McPartland]] told the story of this "alleged" comment to [[Tony Bennett]], on her "Piano Jazz" radio show in 2004.
Wilder died in [[Gainesville, Florida|Gainesville]], [[Florida]], from lung cancer in December 1980,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> and is buried in a Catholic cemetery in [[Avon, New York]], outside Rochester.
==Selected works==
;Opera
*3 children's operas: ''[[The Churkendoose]]''; ''Rachetty Pachetty House'', ''Herman Ermine in Rabbit Town'' (1942)<ref>Slominsky, Nicolas (1988). ''[https://archive.org/details/concisebakersbio0000slon/page/1360/mode/2up?q=%223+children%27s+operas%22+1942 The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians]''. New York: Schirmer Books. p. 1360. {{ISBN|0-02-872411-9}}.</ref>
*''The Lowland Sea'' (1952)
*''Miss Chicken Little'' (1953)
*''Sunday Excursion'' (1953)
*''Kittiwake Island'' (1954)
*''The Long Way'' (1955)
*''The Impossible Forest'' (1958)
*''The Truth about Windmills'' (1973)
*''The Tattooed Countess'' (1974)
*''The Opening'' (1975)
;Musical
*''Pinocchio'' (1957)
*''Hansel and Gretel'' (1958)
*''Miss Chicken Little'' (1953).
*''Nobody’s Earnest'' (1978).
;Film music
*''[[The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film)|The Fall of the House of Usher]]'' (1928)
*''[[Lot in Sodom]]'' (1933)
*''[[Make Mine Music]]'' (1946)
*''[[Albert Schweitzer (film)|Albert Schweitzer]]'' (1957), documentary by [[Jerome Hill]]
*''The Sand Castle'' (1961), directed by Jerome Hill
*''Open the Door and See All the People'' (1964), directed by Jerome Hill
;Large ensemble
*''A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra'' (1954). Text by Marshall Barer. A musical primer. Eighteen movements featuring individual instruments of the orchestra. [Ludlow]
*''[[Names from the War]]'' (1961), for narrator, chorus, brass quintet, and woodwind quintet
*''Children’s Plea for Peace'' (1968). Children's SSAA chorus, narrator and wind ensemble. Text by Wilder, adapted from writings of Avon, New York schoolchildren. Dedicated to Rev. Henry Atwell. [Margun]
;Songs (selected list)
*"[[A Child Is Born (jazz standard)|A Child Is Born]]" (lyrics only)
*"A Long Night"
*"Be a Child"
*"Blackberry Winter"
*"Ellen"
*"Give Me Time"
*"[[I'll Be Around (1942 song)|I'll Be Around]]"
*"It's So Peaceful in the Country"
*"Lovers and Losers"
*"Mimosa and Me"
*"Moon and Sand"
*"Rain Rain"
*"That's My Girl"
*"The April Age"
*"The Rose on the Wind"
*"The Starlighter"
*"The Winter of My Discontent"
*"Trouble Is a Man"
*"Walk Pretty"
*"Where Do You Go"
*"While We're Young"
*"Who Can I Turn To"
;Chamber music and solo instruments
*Air for Bassoon and Strings (1945). For Harold Goltzer
*Air for Flute and Strings (1945). For Julius Baker
*Air for Oboe and Strings (1945). For Mitch Miller
*Brass Quintets:
**No 1 (1959) For the New York Brass Quintet
**No 2 (1961)
**No. 3 (1970)
**No. 4 (1973) For Harvey Phillips
**No. 5 (1975) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet
**No. 6 (1977) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet
**No. 7 (1978) For Frances Miller
**No. 8 (1980) For Frances Miller
*Concerto No. 1 for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (1967). For Doc Severinson
*Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Orchestra (1981; written in 1971). For Barry Kilpatrick
*Effie Suite (1960) for Tuba, Vibraphone, Piano and Drums. For Harvey Phillips
*Fantasy for Piano and Wind Ensemble (1974). For Marian McPartland
*Hardy Suite for Piano
*Jazz Suite for Four Horns (1951). Four horns with harpsichord, guitar, bass, drums.
*Octets (1939–41) Flute/Clarinet 2, oboe/English horn/, clarinet 1, bass clarinet, bassoon, harpsichord, bass, drums:
**Bull Fiddle in a China Shop
**The Children Met the Train
**Concerning Etchings
**Dance Man Buys a Farm
**A Debutante's Diary
**Her Old Man Was Suspicious
**His First Long Pants
**House Detective Registers
**It's Silk, Feel It!
**Jack, This Is My Husband
**Kindergarten Flower Pageant
**Little Girl Grows Up
**Little White Samba
**Neurotic Goldfish
**She'll Be Seven in May
**Such a Tender Night
**Walking Home in Spring
*Seven Duets for Horn and Bassoon
*Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1960). For Donald Sinta
*Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano (1969). For George Roberts
*Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1963). For Glenn Bower
*Sonata for Euphonium and Piano (1968)
*Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1963). For Joe Wilder
*Sonata for Viola and Piano (1965)
*Sonata-Fantasy for Piano
*Suite for Flute and Marimba (1977)
*Suite for String Bass and Guitar (1980)
*Suite for Unaccompanied Flute (1975). For Virginia Nanzetta
*Suites for Piano, Nos. 1 to 4
*Suite No. 2 for Tenor Saxophone and Strings (1966). For [[Zoot Sims]]. [Margun]
*Suites for Tuba and Piano:
**Suite No. 1 (1960) for Harvey Phillips
**Suite No. 2 (Jesse Suite)
**Suite No. 3 (Suite for Little Harvey)
**Suite No. 4 (Thomas Suite)
*Three Ballads for Stan [also exists in Wilder's piano reduction as Suite No. 1 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano] (1963). For Stan Getz. [Margun]
*Twelve Duets for Horn and Bassoon
*Twelve Mosaics for Piano
*Un deuxième essai for Piano
*Woodwind Quintets:
**No. 1 (1954) For the [[New York Woodwind Quintet]]
**No. 2 (1956)
**No. 3 (1958)
**No. 4 (1959) For Bernard Garfield;
**No. 5 (1959)
**No. 6 (1960)
**No. 7 (1964)
**No. 8 (1966) [also known as 'Suite For Non-Voting Quintet']
**No. 9 (1969)
**No. 10 (ca. 1968)
**No. 11 (1971) For John Barrows
**No. 12 (1975) For the Wingra Quintet
**No. 13
==Discography==
''Alec Wilder Octet'' (Columbia, 1951)
===Albums as composer===
'''By [[Bob Brookmeyer]]'''
*''[[7 x Wilder]]'' (Verve, 1961)
'''By [[Jackie Cain]] and [[Roy Kral]]'''
*''An Alec Wilder Collection'' (Audiophile, 1990)
'''By [[Meredith D’Ambrosio]]'''
*''Another Time'' (Palo Alto, 1981)
'''By Valerie Errante and Robert Wason'''
*''Songs of Alec Wilder'' (Troy)
'''By [[Eileen Farrell]]'''
*''Eileen Farrell Sings Alec Wilder'' (Reference)<ref name="LarkinGE"/>
''' By [[Ghost Train Orchestra]]'''
*''Book of Rhapsodies'' (Accurate, 2013)
*''Book of Rhapsodies Vol. II'' (Accurate, 2017)
'''By [[Roland Hanna]]'''
*''Roland Hanna Plays the Music of Alec Wilder'' (Tokuma [Japan], 1978)
'''By [[Vic Juris]]'''
*''Music of Alec Wilder'' (Double Time, 1996)
'''By Bob Levy'''
*''Blackberry Winter: Songs by Alec Wilder'' (Mark)
'''By [[Dave Liebman]]'''
*''Lieb Plays Wilder'' (Daybreak, 2003)
'''By [[Mundell Lowe]]'''
*''[[New Music of Alec Wilder]]'' (Riverside, 1956)
'''By [[Marian McPartland]]'''
*''Marian McPartland Plays the Music of Alec Wilder'' (Jazz Alliance)
'''By John Noel Roberts'''
*''Alec Wilder: Music for Piano'' (Albany TROY1294, 2024)
'''By Diana Robinson'''
*''Music of Alec Wilder'' (Multi Media Library)
'''By [[Bob Rockwell]]'''
*''Bob’s Wilder'' (Stunt, 2003)
'''By [[Ben Sidran]]'''
*''Walk Pretty: The Songs of Alec Wilder'' (Go Jazz, 2002)
'''By [[Frank Sinatra]]'''
*''[[Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder]]'' (Columbia, 1946)
'''By [[Marlene VerPlanck]]'''
*''Marlene VerPlanck Sings Alec Wilder'' (Audiophile)
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Sources==
*Wilder, Alec, ''American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950,'' ed. James T. Maher. (New York: Oxford Press, 1972; paperback ed., Oxford Press, 1975), xxxix, 536 pp.
*Wilder, Alec, David Demsey editor, ''Letters I Never Mailed'' Annotated Edition (University of Rochester Press, 2006).
*Stone, Desmond, ''Alec Wilder In Spite of Himself: A Life of the Composer'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 244 pp.
*Demsey, David and Ronald Prather, ''Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography'' (Greenwood Press, 1993) Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 45.
*Zeltsman, Nancy, ed., ''Alec Wilder: An Introduction to the Man and His Music'' (Newton, MA: Margun Music, 1991).
*[http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/acc/wilder.html Alec Wilder page from Classical Net]
*[http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/wilder.html Alec Wilder Collection 1939-2000, from The New York Public Library site]
*{{IMDb name|0928546}}
*[https://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/files/Alec-Wilder-Archive.pdf Alec Wilder Archive at Eastman School of Music]
*[http://www.alecwildercentennial.com Alec Wilder Centennial site]
*[http://wilderworld.podomatic.com 100 records to celebrate 100 years of Alec Wilder...and more!]
*[http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/W.html Opera Glass]
==External links==
*[http://www.alecwildermusicandlife.com/ Alec Wilder Music and Life]
*[http://wilderworld.podomatic.com/ Links to music and articles]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120926115532/http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C77?exhibitId=77 Alec Wilder exhibit at Songwriters Hall Of Fame]
*[http://www.artofsong.net/songs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=157:alec-wilder&catid=36:art-of-song-database-&Itemid=59#mce_temp_url%23 Alec Wilder at Art of Song]
*[http://archives.nypl.org/mus/23065 Alec Wilder papers, 1909-2000] Music Division, The New York Public Library.
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* {{IMDb name|0928546}}
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Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980)[1] was an American composer and author.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Selected works
3 Discography
3.1 Albums as composer
4 References
5 Sources
6 External links
Biography[edit]
Wilder was born in Rochester, New York, United States,[1] to a prominent family; the Wilder Building downtown (at the "Four Corners") bears the family's name and his maternal grandfather, and namesake, was prominent banker Alexander Lafayette Chew. As a young boy, he traveled to New York City with his mother and stayed at the Algonquin Hotel. It would later be his home for the last 40 or so years of his life.[1] He attended several prep schools, unhappily, as a teenager. Around this time, he hired a lawyer and essentially "divorced" himself from his family, gaining for himself some portion of the family fortune.
He was largely self-taught as a composer; he studied privately with the composers Herman Inch and Edward Royce, who taught at the Eastman School of Music in the 1920s, but never registered for classes and never received his degree.[2] While there, he edited a humor magazine and scored music for short films directed by James Sibley Watson. Wilder was eventually awarded an honorary degree in 1973.
He was good friends with Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett and others who helped develop the American popular music canon. Among the popular songs he wrote or co-wrote were "I'll Be Around" (a hit for the Mills Brothers), "While We're Young" (recorded by Peggy Lee and many others), "Blackberry Winter", "Where Do You Go?" (recorded by Sinatra) and "It's So Peaceful in the Country".[1] He also wrote many songs for the cabaret artist Mabel Mercer, including one of her signature pieces, "Did You Ever Cross Over to Sneden's?".[3] Wilder occasionally wrote his own lyrics, including for his most famous song "I'll Be Around".[1] Other lyricists he worked with included Loonis McGlohon, William Engvick, Johnny Mercer and Fran Landesman.
In addition to writing popular songs, Wilder also composed classical pieces for unique combinations of orchestral instruments.[1] The Alec Wilder Octet, including Eastman classmate Mitch Miller on oboe, recorded several of his originals for Brunswick Records in 1938-40. His classical numbers, which often had off-beat, humorous titles ("The Hotel Detective Registers"), were strongly influenced by jazz. He wrote eleven operas; one of which, Miss Chicken Little (1953), was commissioned for television by CBS. Wilder also arranged a series of Christmas carols for Tubachristmas.
Sinatra conducted the Columbia String Orchestra on Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder, an album of Wilder's classical music (1946). Wilder also contributed two tone poems, "Grey" and "Blue", to the 1956 album, Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color.
Wilder wrote the definitive book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 (1972).[1] He was also featured in a radio series based on the book, broadcast in the middle to late 1970s.[4] With lyricist Loonis McGlohon (his co-host on the radio series) he composed songs for the Land of Oz theme park in Banner Elk, North Carolina.[5]
Wilder loved puzzles: he created his own cryptic crosswords, and could spend hours with a jigsaw puzzle.[6] He also loved to talk (he had an encyclopedic knowledge of the world) and most of all, laugh. Displeased with how Peggy Lee improvised the ending of "While We're Young", he wrote her a note: "The next time you come to the bridge [of the song], jump!" Pianist Marian McPartland told the story of this "alleged" comment to Tony Bennett, on her "Piano Jazz" radio show in 2004.
Wilder died in Gainesville, Florida, from lung cancer in December 1980,[1] and is buried in a Catholic cemetery in Avon, New York, outside Rochester.
Selected works[edit]
Opera
3 children's operas: The Churkendoose; Rachetty Pachetty House, Herman Ermine in Rabbit Town (1942)[7]
The Lowland Sea (1952)
Miss Chicken Little (1953)
Sunday Excursion (1953)
Kittiwake Island (1954)
The Long Way (1955)
The Impossible Forest (1958)
The Truth about Windmills (1973)
The Tattooed Countess (1974)
The Opening (1975)
Musical
Pinocchio (1957)
Hansel and Gretel (1958)
Miss Chicken Little (1953).
Nobody’s Earnest (1978).
Film music
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Lot in Sodom (1933)
Make Mine Music (1946)
Albert Schweitzer (1957), documentary by Jerome Hill
The Sand Castle (1961), directed by Jerome Hill
Open the Door and See All the People (1964), directed by Jerome Hill
Large ensemble
A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra (1954). Text by Marshall Barer. A musical primer. Eighteen movements featuring individual instruments of the orchestra. [Ludlow]
Names from the War (1961), for narrator, chorus, brass quintet, and woodwind quintet
Children’s Plea for Peace (1968). Children's SSAA chorus, narrator and wind ensemble. Text by Wilder, adapted from writings of Avon, New York schoolchildren. Dedicated to Rev. Henry Atwell. [Margun]
Songs (selected list)
"A Child Is Born" (lyrics only)
"A Long Night"
"Be a Child"
"Blackberry Winter"
"Ellen"
"Give Me Time"
"I'll Be Around"
"It's So Peaceful in the Country"
"Lovers and Losers"
"Mimosa and Me"
"Moon and Sand"
"Rain Rain"
"That's My Girl"
"The April Age"
"The Rose on the Wind"
"The Starlighter"
"The Winter of My Discontent"
"Trouble Is a Man"
"Walk Pretty"
"Where Do You Go"
"While We're Young"
"Who Can I Turn To"
Chamber music and solo instruments
Air for Bassoon and Strings (1945). For Harold Goltzer
Air for Flute and Strings (1945). For Julius Baker
Air for Oboe and Strings (1945). For Mitch Miller
Brass Quintets:
No 1 (1959) For the New York Brass Quintet
No 2 (1961)
No. 3 (1970)
No. 4 (1973) For Harvey Phillips
No. 5 (1975) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet
No. 6 (1977) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet
No. 7 (1978) For Frances Miller
No. 8 (1980) For Frances Miller
Concerto No. 1 for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (1967). For Doc Severinson
Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Orchestra (1981; written in 1971). For Barry Kilpatrick
Effie Suite (1960) for Tuba, Vibraphone, Piano and Drums. For Harvey Phillips
Fantasy for Piano and Wind Ensemble (1974). For Marian McPartland
Hardy Suite for Piano
Jazz Suite for Four Horns (1951). Four horns with harpsichord, guitar, bass, drums.
Octets (1939–41) Flute/Clarinet 2, oboe/English horn/, clarinet 1, bass clarinet, bassoon, harpsichord, bass, drums:
Bull Fiddle in a China Shop
The Children Met the Train
Concerning Etchings
Dance Man Buys a Farm
A Debutante's Diary
Her Old Man Was Suspicious
His First Long Pants
House Detective Registers
It's Silk, Feel It!
Jack, This Is My Husband
Kindergarten Flower Pageant
Little Girl Grows Up
Little White Samba
Neurotic Goldfish
She'll Be Seven in May
Such a Tender Night
Walking Home in Spring
Seven Duets for Horn and Bassoon
Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1960). For Donald Sinta
Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano (1969). For George Roberts
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1963). For Glenn Bower
Sonata for Euphonium and Piano (1968)
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1963). For Joe Wilder
Sonata for Viola and Piano (1965)
Sonata-Fantasy for Piano
Suite for Flute and Marimba (1977)
Suite for String Bass and Guitar (1980)
Suite for Unaccompanied Flute (1975). For Virginia Nanzetta
Suites for Piano, Nos. 1 to 4
Suite No. 2 for Tenor Saxophone and Strings (1966). For Zoot Sims. [Margun]
Suites for Tuba and Piano:
Suite No. 1 (1960) for Harvey Phillips
Suite No. 2 (Jesse Suite)
Suite No. 3 (Suite for Little Harvey)
Suite No. 4 (Thomas Suite)
Three Ballads for Stan [also exists in Wilder's piano reduction as Suite No. 1 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano] (1963). For Stan Getz. [Margun]
Twelve Duets for Horn and Bassoon
Twelve Mosaics for Piano
Un deuxième essai for Piano
Woodwind Quintets:
No. 1 (1954) For the New York Woodwind Quintet
No. 2 (1956)
No. 3 (1958)
No. 4 (1959) For Bernard Garfield;
No. 5 (1959)
No. 6 (1960)
No. 7 (1964)
No. 8 (1966) [also known as 'Suite For Non-Voting Quintet']
No. 9 (1969)
No. 10 (ca. 1968)
No. 11 (1971) For John Barrows
No. 12 (1975) For the Wingra Quintet
No. 13
Discography[edit]
Alec Wilder Octet (Columbia, 1951)
Albums as composer[edit]
By Bob Brookmeyer
7 x Wilder (Verve, 1961)
By Jackie Cain and Roy Kral
An Alec Wilder Collection (Audiophile, 1990)
By Meredith D’Ambrosio
Another Time (Palo Alto, 1981)
By Valerie Errante and Robert Wason
Songs of Alec Wilder (Troy)
By Eileen Farrell
Eileen Farrell Sings Alec Wilder (Reference)[1]
By Ghost Train Orchestra
Book of Rhapsodies (Accurate, 2013)
Book of Rhapsodies Vol. II (Accurate, 2017)
By Roland Hanna
Roland Hanna Plays the Music of Alec Wilder (Tokuma [Japan], 1978)
By Vic Juris
Music of Alec Wilder (Double Time, 1996)
By Bob Levy
Blackberry Winter: Songs by Alec Wilder (Mark)
By Dave Liebman
Lieb Plays Wilder (Daybreak, 2003)
By Mundell Lowe
New Music of Alec Wilder (Riverside, 1956)
By Marian McPartland
Marian McPartland Plays the Music of Alec Wilder (Jazz Alliance)
By John Noel Roberts
Alec Wilder: Music for Piano (Albany TROY1294, 2024)
By Diana Robinson
Music of Alec Wilder (Multi Media Library)
By Bob Rockwell
Bob’s Wilder (Stunt, 2003)
By Ben Sidran
Walk Pretty: The Songs of Alec Wilder (Go Jazz, 2002)
By Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder (Columbia, 1946)
By Marlene VerPlanck
Marlene VerPlanck Sings Alec Wilder (Audiophile)
References[edit]
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^ Teachout, Terry (January 6, 2002). "Mabel Mercer: The Subtle Truth". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
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Sources[edit]
Wilder, Alec, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950, ed. James T. Maher. (New York: Oxford Press, 1972; paperback ed., Oxford Press, 1975), xxxix, 536 pp.
Wilder, Alec, David Demsey editor, Letters I Never Mailed Annotated Edition (University of Rochester Press, 2006).
Stone, Desmond, Alec Wilder In Spite of Himself: A Life of the Composer (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 244 pp.
Demsey, David and Ronald Prather, Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1993) Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 45.
Zeltsman, Nancy, ed., Alec Wilder: An Introduction to the Man and His Music (Newton, MA: Margun Music, 1991).
Alec Wilder page from Classical Net
Alec Wilder Collection 1939-2000, from The New York Public Library site
Alec Wilder at IMDb
Alec Wilder Archive at Eastman School of Music
Alec Wilder Centennial site
100 records to celebrate 100 years of Alec Wilder...and more!
Opera Glass
External links[edit]
Alec Wilder Music and Life
Links to music and articles
Alec Wilder exhibit at Songwriters Hall Of Fame
Alec Wilder at Art of Song
Alec Wilder papers, 1909-2000 Music Division, The New York Public Library.
Alec Wilder discography at Discogs
Alec Wilder at IMDb
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'''Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder ''' (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980)<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2684}}</ref> was an American composer and author.
==Biography==
Wilder was born in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]], [[New York (state)|New York]], United States,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> to a prominent family; the [[Wilder Building]] downtown (at the "Four Corners") bears the family's name and his maternal grandfather, and namesake, was prominent banker [[Alexander Lafayette Chew]]. As a young boy, he traveled to [[New York City]] with his mother and stayed at the [[Algonquin Hotel]]. It would later be his home for the last 40 or so years of his life.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He attended several [[University-preparatory school|prep school]]s, unhappily, as a teenager. Around this time, he hired a lawyer and essentially "divorced" himself from his family, gaining for himself some portion of the family fortune.
He was largely self-taught as a composer; he studied privately with the composers Herman Inch and Edward Royce, who taught at the [[Eastman School of Music]] in the 1920s, but never registered for classes and never received his degree.<ref>Bowen, Glenn Hamel. "The Clarinet in the Chamber Music of Alec Wilder". (D.M.A. diss., Eastman School of Music, 1968), 2-3.</ref> While there, he edited a humor magazine and scored music for short films directed by [[James Sibley Watson]]. Wilder was eventually awarded an honorary degree in 1973.
He was good friends with [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Peggy Lee]], [[Tony Bennett]] and others who helped develop the [[American popular music]] canon. Among the popular songs he wrote or co-wrote were "[[I'll Be Around (1942 song)|I'll Be Around]]" (a hit for the [[Mills Brothers]]), "While We're Young" (recorded by Peggy Lee and many others), "Blackberry Winter", "Where Do You Go?" (recorded by Sinatra) and "It's So Peaceful in the Country".<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He also wrote many songs for the [[cabaret]] artist [[Mabel Mercer]], including one of her signature pieces, "Did You Ever Cross Over to Sneden's?".<ref>{{cite news| last = Teachout| first = Terry| title = Mabel Mercer: The Subtle Truth | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date = January 6, 2002 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/arts/music-mabel-mercer-the-subtle-truth.html?pagewanted=1 | access-date = 2010-01-23 }}</ref> Wilder occasionally wrote his own lyrics, including for his most famous song "I'll Be Around".<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Other lyricists he worked with included [[Loonis McGlohon]], [[William Engvick]], [[Johnny Mercer]] and [[Fran Landesman]].
In addition to writing popular songs, Wilder also composed [[Classical music|classical]] pieces for unique combinations of orchestral instruments.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> The Alec Wilder Octet, including Eastman classmate [[Mitch Miller]] on oboe, recorded several of his originals for [[Brunswick Records]] in 1938-40. His classical numbers, which often had off-beat, humorous titles ("The Hotel Detective Registers"), were strongly influenced by [[jazz]]. He wrote eleven [[operas]]; one of which, ''Miss Chicken Little'' (1953), was commissioned for television by [[CBS]]. Wilder also arranged a series of [[Christmas carol]]s for [[Tubachristmas]].
Sinatra [[Conductor (music)|conducted]] the Columbia String Orchestra on ''[[Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder]]'', an album of Wilder's classical music (1946). Wilder also contributed two tone poems, "Grey" and "Blue", to the 1956 album, ''[[Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color]]''.
Wilder wrote the definitive book ''American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950'' (1972).<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He was also featured in a radio series based on the book, broadcast in the middle to late 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2009/04/10/102941429/billy-taylor-on-piano-jazzs-debut-episode|title=Billy Taylor On Piano Jazz's Debut Episode|website=Npr.org}}</ref> With lyricist [[Loonis McGlohon]] (his co-host on the radio series) he composed songs for the [[Land of Oz (theme park)|Land of Oz]] [[theme park]] in [[Banner Elk, North Carolina]].<ref>Stone. p. [https://archive.org/details/alecwilderinspit00ston/page/146/mode/2up?q=%22Land+of+Oz%22 146].</ref>
Wilder loved puzzles: he created his own cryptic crosswords, and could spend hours with a [[jigsaw puzzle]].<ref>Stone. pp. [https://archive.org/details/alecwilderinspit00ston/page/48/mode/2up?q=crossword+puzzles 166, 185, 207, 208, 251].</ref> He also loved to talk (he had an encyclopedic knowledge of the world) and most of all, laugh. Displeased with how Peggy Lee improvised the ending of "While We're Young", he wrote her a note: "The next time you come to the bridge [of the song], jump!" Pianist [[Marian McPartland]] told the story of this "alleged" comment to [[Tony Bennett]], on her "Piano Jazz" radio show in 2004.
Wilder died in [[Gainesville, Florida|Gainesville]], [[Florida]], from lung cancer in December 1980,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> and is buried in a Catholic cemetery in [[Avon, New York]], outside Rochester.
==Selected works==
;Opera
*3 children's operas: ''[[The Churkendoose]]''; ''Rachetty Pachetty House'', ''Herman Ermine in Rabbit Town'' (1942)<ref>Slominsky, Nicolas (1988). ''[https://archive.org/details/concisebakersbio0000slon/page/1360/mode/2up?q=%223+children%27s+operas%22+1942 The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians]''. New York: Schirmer Books. p. 1360. {{ISBN|0-02-872411-9}}.</ref>
*''The Lowland Sea'' (1952)
*''Miss Chicken Little'' (1953)
*''Sunday Excursion'' (1953)
*''Kittiwake Island'' (1954)
*''The Long Way'' (1955)
*''The Impossible Forest'' (1958)
*''The Truth about Windmills'' (1973)
*''The Tattooed Countess'' (1974)
*''The Opening'' (1975)
;Musical
*''Pinocchio'' (1957)
*''Hansel and Gretel'' (1958)
*''Miss Chicken Little'' (1953).
*''Nobody’s Earnest'' (1978).
;Film music
*''[[The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film)|The Fall of the House of Usher]]'' (1928)
*''[[Lot in Sodom]]'' (1933)
*''[[Make Mine Music]]'' (1946)
*''[[Albert Schweitzer (film)|Albert Schweitzer]]'' (1957), documentary by [[Jerome Hill]]
*''The Sand Castle'' (1961), directed by Jerome Hill
*''Open the Door and See All the People'' (1964), directed by Jerome Hill
;Large ensemble
*''A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra'' (1954). Text by Marshall Barer. A musical primer. Eighteen movements featuring individual instruments of the orchestra. [Ludlow]
*''[[Names from the War]]'' (1961), for narrator, chorus, brass quintet, and woodwind quintet
*''Children’s Plea for Peace'' (1968). Children's SSAA chorus, narrator and wind ensemble. Text by Wilder, adapted from writings of Avon, New York schoolchildren. Dedicated to Rev. Henry Atwell. [Margun]
;Songs (selected list)
*"[[A Child Is Born (jazz standard)|A Child Is Born]]" (lyrics only)
*"A Long Night"
*"Be a Child"
*"Blackberry Winter"
*"Ellen"
*"Give Me Time"
*"[[I'll Be Around (1942 song)|I'll Be Around]]"
*"It's So Peaceful in the Country"
*"Lovers and Losers"
*"Mimosa and Me"
*"Moon and Sand"
*"Rain Rain"
*"That's My Girl"
*"The April Age"
*"The Rose on the Wind"
*"The Starlighter"
*"The Winter of My Discontent"
*"Trouble Is a Man"
*"Walk Pretty"
*"Where Do You Go"
*"While We're Young"
*"Who Can I Turn To"
;Chamber music and solo instruments
*Air for Bassoon and Strings (1945). For Harold Goltzer
*Air for Flute and Strings (1945). For Julius Baker
*Air for Oboe and Strings (1945). For Mitch Miller
*Brass Quintets:
**No 1 (1959) For the New York Brass Quintet
**No 2 (1961)
**No. 3 (1970)
**No. 4 (1973) For Harvey Phillips
**No. 5 (1975) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet
**No. 6 (1977) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet
**No. 7 (1978) For Frances Miller
**No. 8 (1980) For Frances Miller
*Concerto No. 1 for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (1967). For Doc Severinson
*Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Orchestra (1981; written in 1971). For Barry Kilpatrick
*Effie Suite (1960) for Tuba, Vibraphone, Piano and Drums. For Harvey Phillips
*Fantasy for Piano and Wind Ensemble (1974). For Marian McPartland
*Hardy Suite for Piano
*Jazz Suite for Four Horns (1951). Four horns with harpsichord, guitar, bass, drums.
*Octets (1939–41) Flute/Clarinet 2, oboe/English horn/, clarinet 1, bass clarinet, bassoon, harpsichord, bass, drums:
**Bull Fiddle in a China Shop
**The Children Met the Train
**Concerning Etchings
**Dance Man Buys a Farm
**A Debutante's Diary
**Her Old Man Was Suspicious
**His First Long Pants
**House Detective Registers
**It's Silk, Feel It!
**Jack, This Is My Husband
**Kindergarten Flower Pageant
**Little Girl Grows Up
**Little White Samba
**Neurotic Goldfish
**She'll Be Seven in May
**Such a Tender Night
**Walking Home in Spring
*Seven Duets for Horn and Bassoon
*Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1960). For Donald Sinta
*Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano (1969). For George Roberts
*Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1963). For Glenn Bower
*Sonata for Euphonium and Piano (1968)
*Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1963). For Joe Wilder
*Sonata for Viola and Piano (1965)
*Sonata-Fantasy for Piano
*Suite for Flute and Marimba (1977)
*Suite for String Bass and Guitar (1980)
*Suite for Unaccompanied Flute (1975). For Virginia Nanzetta
*Suites for Piano, Nos. 1 to 4
*Suite No. 2 for Tenor Saxophone and Strings (1966). For [[Zoot Sims]]. [Margun]
*Suites for Tuba and Piano:
**Suite No. 1 (1960) for Harvey Phillips
**Suite No. 2 (Jesse Suite)
**Suite No. 3 (Suite for Little Harvey)
**Suite No. 4 (Thomas Suite)
*Three Ballads for Stan [also exists in Wilder's piano reduction as Suite No. 1 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano] (1963). For Stan Getz. [Margun]
*Twelve Duets for Horn and Bassoon
*Twelve Mosaics for Piano
*Un deuxième essai for Piano
*Woodwind Quintets:
**No. 1 (1954) For the [[New York Woodwind Quintet]]
**No. 2 (1956)
**No. 3 (1958)
**No. 4 (1959) For Bernard Garfield;
**No. 5 (1959)
**No. 6 (1960)
**No. 7 (1964)
**No. 8 (1966) [also known as 'Suite For Non-Voting Quintet']
**No. 9 (1969)
**No. 10 (ca. 1968)
**No. 11 (1971) For John Barrows
**No. 12 (1975) For the Wingra Quintet
**No. 13
==Discography==
''Alec Wilder Octet'' (Columbia, 1951)
===Albums as composer===
'''By [[Bob Brookmeyer]]'''
*''[[7 x Wilder]]'' (Verve, 1961)
'''By [[Jackie Cain]] and [[Roy Kral]]'''
*''An Alec Wilder Collection'' (Audiophile, 1990)
'''By [[Meredith D’Ambrosio]]'''
*''Another Time'' (Palo Alto, 1981)
'''By Valerie Errante and Robert Wason'''
*''Songs of Alec Wilder'' (Troy)
'''By [[Eileen Farrell]]'''
*''Eileen Farrell Sings Alec Wilder'' (Reference)<ref name="LarkinGE"/>
''' By [[Ghost Train Orchestra]]'''
*''Book of Rhapsodies'' (Accurate, 2013)
*''Book of Rhapsodies Vol. II'' (Accurate, 2017)
'''By [[Roland Hanna]]'''
*''Roland Hanna Plays the Music of Alec Wilder'' (Tokuma [Japan], 1978)
'''By [[Vic Juris]]'''
*''Music of Alec Wilder'' (Double Time, 1996)
'''By Bob Levy'''
*''Blackberry Winter: Songs by Alec Wilder'' (Mark)
'''By [[Dave Liebman]]'''
*''Lieb Plays Wilder'' (Daybreak, 2003)
'''By [[Mundell Lowe]]'''
*''[[New Music of Alec Wilder]]'' (Riverside, 1956)
'''By [[Marian McPartland]]'''
*''Marian McPartland Plays the Music of Alec Wilder'' (Jazz Alliance)
'''By John Noel Roberts'''
*''Alec Wilder: Music for Piano'' (Albany TROY1294, 2024)
'''By Diana Robinson'''
*''Music of Alec Wilder'' (Multi Media Library)
'''By [[Bob Rockwell]]'''
*''Bob’s Wilder'' (Stunt, 2003)
'''By [[Ben Sidran]]'''
*''Walk Pretty: The Songs of Alec Wilder'' (Go Jazz, 2002)
'''By [[Frank Sinatra]]'''
*''[[Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder]]'' (Columbia, 1946)
'''By [[Marlene VerPlanck]]'''
*''Marlene VerPlanck Sings Alec Wilder'' (Audiophile)
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Sources==
*Wilder, Alec, ''American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950,'' ed. James T. Maher. (New York: Oxford Press, 1972; paperback ed., Oxford Press, 1975), xxxix, 536 pp.
*Wilder, Alec, David Demsey editor, ''Letters I Never Mailed'' Annotated Edition (University of Rochester Press, 2006).
*Stone, Desmond, ''Alec Wilder In Spite of Himself: A Life of the Composer'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 244 pp.
*Demsey, David and Ronald Prather, ''Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography'' (Greenwood Press, 1993) Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 45.
*Zeltsman, Nancy, ed., ''Alec Wilder: An Introduction to the Man and His Music'' (Newton, MA: Margun Music, 1991).
*[http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/acc/wilder.html Alec Wilder page from Classical Net]
*[http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/wilder.html Alec Wilder Collection 1939-2000, from The New York Public Library site]
*{{IMDb name|0928546}}
*[https://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/files/Alec-Wilder-Archive.pdf Alec Wilder Archive at Eastman School of Music]
*[http://www.alecwildercentennial.com Alec Wilder Centennial site]
*[http://wilderworld.podomatic.com 100 records to celebrate 100 years of Alec Wilder...and more!]
*[http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/W.html Opera Glass]
==External links==
*[http://www.alecwildermusicandlife.com/ Alec Wilder Music and Life]
*[http://wilderworld.podomatic.com/ Links to music and articles]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120926115532/http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C77?exhibitId=77 Alec Wilder exhibit at Songwriters Hall Of Fame]
*[http://www.artofsong.net/songs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=157:alec-wilder&catid=36:art-of-song-database-&Itemid=59#mce_temp_url%23 Alec Wilder at Art of Song]
*[http://archives.nypl.org/mus/23065 Alec Wilder papers, 1909-2000] Music Division, The New York Public Library.
* {{discogs artist|Alec Wilder}}
* {{IMDb name|0928546}}
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<p><b>Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder </b> (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980)<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American composer and author.
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<p>Wilder was born in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" title="Rochester, New York">Rochester</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, United States,<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to a prominent family; the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wilder_Building" title="Wilder Building">Wilder Building</a> downtown (at the "Four Corners") bears the family's name and his maternal grandfather, and namesake, was prominent banker <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alexander_Lafayette_Chew" title="Alexander Lafayette Chew">Alexander Lafayette Chew</a>. As a young boy, he traveled to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> with his mother and stayed at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Algonquin_Hotel" title="Algonquin Hotel">Algonquin Hotel</a>. It would later be his home for the last 40 or so years of his life.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended several <a href="/enwiki/wiki/University-preparatory_school" class="mw-redirect" title="University-preparatory school">prep schools</a>, unhappily, as a teenager. Around this time, he hired a lawyer and essentially "divorced" himself from his family, gaining for himself some portion of the family fortune.
</p><p>He was largely self-taught as a composer; he studied privately with the composers Herman Inch and Edward Royce, who taught at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Eastman_School_of_Music" title="Eastman School of Music">Eastman School of Music</a> in the 1920s, but never registered for classes and never received his degree.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While there, he edited a humor magazine and scored music for short films directed by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/James_Sibley_Watson" title="James Sibley Watson">James Sibley Watson</a>. Wilder was eventually awarded an honorary degree in 1973.
</p><p>He was good friends with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Peggy_Lee" title="Peggy Lee">Peggy Lee</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tony_Bennett" title="Tony Bennett">Tony Bennett</a> and others who helped develop the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/American_popular_music" title="American popular music">American popular music</a> canon. Among the popular songs he wrote or co-wrote were "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/I%27ll_Be_Around_(1942_song)" title="I'll Be Around (1942 song)">I'll Be Around</a>" (a hit for the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mills_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Mills Brothers">Mills Brothers</a>), "While We're Young" (recorded by Peggy Lee and many others), "Blackberry Winter", "Where Do You Go?" (recorded by Sinatra) and "It's So Peaceful in the Country".<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote many songs for the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cabaret" title="Cabaret">cabaret</a> artist <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mabel_Mercer" title="Mabel Mercer">Mabel Mercer</a>, including one of her signature pieces, "Did You Ever Cross Over to Sneden's?".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilder occasionally wrote his own lyrics, including for his most famous song "I'll Be Around".<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other lyricists he worked with included <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Loonis_McGlohon" title="Loonis McGlohon">Loonis McGlohon</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/William_Engvick" title="William Engvick">William Engvick</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Johnny_Mercer" title="Johnny Mercer">Johnny Mercer</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fran_Landesman" title="Fran Landesman">Fran Landesman</a>.
</p><p>In addition to writing popular songs, Wilder also composed <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical</a> pieces for unique combinations of orchestral instruments.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Alec Wilder Octet, including Eastman classmate <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mitch_Miller" title="Mitch Miller">Mitch Miller</a> on oboe, recorded several of his originals for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Brunswick_Records" title="Brunswick Records">Brunswick Records</a> in 1938-40. His classical numbers, which often had off-beat, humorous titles ("The Hotel Detective Registers"), were strongly influenced by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a>. He wrote eleven <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Operas" class="mw-redirect" title="Operas">operas</a>; one of which, <i>Miss Chicken Little</i> (1953), was commissioned for television by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a>. Wilder also arranged a series of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Christmas_carol" title="Christmas carol">Christmas carols</a> for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tubachristmas" title="Tubachristmas">Tubachristmas</a>.
</p><p>Sinatra <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Conductor_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conductor (music)">conducted</a> the Columbia String Orchestra on <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frank_Sinatra_Conducts_the_Music_of_Alec_Wilder" title="Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder">Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder</a></i>, an album of Wilder's classical music (1946). Wilder also contributed two tone poems, "Grey" and "Blue", to the 1956 album, <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frank_Sinatra_Conducts_Tone_Poems_of_Color" title="Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color">Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color</a></i>.
</p><p>Wilder wrote the definitive book <i>American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950</i> (1972).<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also featured in a radio series based on the book, broadcast in the middle to late 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With lyricist <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Loonis_McGlohon" title="Loonis McGlohon">Loonis McGlohon</a> (his co-host on the radio series) he composed songs for the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Land_of_Oz_(theme_park)" title="Land of Oz (theme park)">Land of Oz</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Theme_park" class="mw-redirect" title="Theme park">theme park</a> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Banner_Elk,_North_Carolina" title="Banner Elk, North Carolina">Banner Elk, North Carolina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Wilder loved puzzles: he created his own cryptic crosswords, and could spend hours with a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jigsaw_puzzle" title="Jigsaw puzzle">jigsaw puzzle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also loved to talk (he had an encyclopedic knowledge of the world) and most of all, laugh. Displeased with how Peggy Lee improvised the ending of "While We're Young", he wrote her a note: "The next time you come to the bridge [of the song], jump!" Pianist <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Marian_McPartland" title="Marian McPartland">Marian McPartland</a> told the story of this "alleged" comment to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tony_Bennett" title="Tony Bennett">Tony Bennett</a>, on her "Piano Jazz" radio show in 2004.
</p><p>Wilder died in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gainesville,_Florida" title="Gainesville, Florida">Gainesville</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, from lung cancer in December 1980,<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is buried in a Catholic cemetery in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Avon,_New_York" title="Avon, New York">Avon, New York</a>, outside Rochester.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Alec_Wilder&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<dl><dt>Opera</dt></dl>
<ul><li>3 children's operas: <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Churkendoose" title="The Churkendoose">The Churkendoose</a></i>; <i>Rachetty Pachetty House</i>, <i>Herman Ermine in Rabbit Town</i> (1942)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>The Lowland Sea</i> (1952)</li>
<li><i>Miss Chicken Little</i> (1953)</li>
<li><i>Sunday Excursion</i> (1953)</li>
<li><i>Kittiwake Island</i> (1954)</li>
<li><i>The Long Way</i> (1955)</li>
<li><i>The Impossible Forest</i> (1958)</li>
<li><i>The Truth about Windmills</i> (1973)</li>
<li><i>The Tattooed Countess</i> (1974)</li>
<li><i>The Opening</i> (1975)</li></ul>
<dl><dt>Musical</dt></dl>
<ul><li><i>Pinocchio</i> (1957)</li>
<li><i>Hansel and Gretel</i> (1958)</li>
<li><i>Miss Chicken Little</i> (1953).</li>
<li><i>Nobody’s Earnest</i> (1978).</li></ul>
<dl><dt>Film music</dt></dl>
<ul><li><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher_(1928_American_film)" title="The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film)">The Fall of the House of Usher</a></i> (1928)</li>
<li><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lot_in_Sodom" title="Lot in Sodom">Lot in Sodom</a></i> (1933)</li>
<li><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Make_Mine_Music" title="Make Mine Music">Make Mine Music</a></i> (1946)</li>
<li><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer_(film)" title="Albert Schweitzer (film)">Albert Schweitzer</a></i> (1957), documentary by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jerome_Hill" title="Jerome Hill">Jerome Hill</a></li>
<li><i>The Sand Castle</i> (1961), directed by Jerome Hill</li>
<li><i>Open the Door and See All the People</i> (1964), directed by Jerome Hill</li></ul>
<dl><dt>Large ensemble</dt></dl>
<ul><li><i>A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra</i> (1954). Text by Marshall Barer. A musical primer. Eighteen movements featuring individual instruments of the orchestra. [Ludlow]</li>
<li><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Names_from_the_War" title="Names from the War">Names from the War</a></i> (1961), for narrator, chorus, brass quintet, and woodwind quintet</li>
<li><i>Children’s Plea for Peace</i> (1968). Children's SSAA chorus, narrator and wind ensemble. Text by Wilder, adapted from writings of Avon, New York schoolchildren. Dedicated to Rev. Henry Atwell. [Margun]</li></ul>
<dl><dt>Songs (selected list)</dt></dl>
<ul><li>"<a href="/enwiki/wiki/A_Child_Is_Born_(jazz_standard)" title="A Child Is Born (jazz standard)">A Child Is Born</a>" (lyrics only)</li>
<li>"A Long Night"</li>
<li>"Be a Child"</li>
<li>"Blackberry Winter"</li>
<li>"Ellen"</li>
<li>"Give Me Time"</li>
<li>"<a href="/enwiki/wiki/I%27ll_Be_Around_(1942_song)" title="I'll Be Around (1942 song)">I'll Be Around</a>"</li>
<li>"It's So Peaceful in the Country"</li>
<li>"Lovers and Losers"</li>
<li>"Mimosa and Me"</li>
<li>"Moon and Sand"</li>
<li>"Rain Rain"</li>
<li>"That's My Girl"</li>
<li>"The April Age"</li>
<li>"The Rose on the Wind"</li>
<li>"The Starlighter"</li>
<li>"The Winter of My Discontent"</li>
<li>"Trouble Is a Man"</li>
<li>"Walk Pretty"</li>
<li>"Where Do You Go"</li>
<li>"While We're Young"</li>
<li>"Who Can I Turn To"</li></ul>
<dl><dt>Chamber music and solo instruments</dt></dl>
<ul><li>Air for Bassoon and Strings (1945). For Harold Goltzer</li>
<li>Air for Flute and Strings (1945). For Julius Baker</li>
<li>Air for Oboe and Strings (1945). For Mitch Miller</li>
<li>Brass Quintets:
<ul><li>No 1 (1959) For the New York Brass Quintet</li>
<li>No 2 (1961)</li>
<li>No. 3 (1970)</li>
<li>No. 4 (1973) For Harvey Phillips</li>
<li>No. 5 (1975) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet</li>
<li>No. 6 (1977) For the Tidewater Brass Quintet</li>
<li>No. 7 (1978) For Frances Miller</li>
<li>No. 8 (1980) For Frances Miller</li></ul></li>
<li>Concerto No. 1 for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (1967). For Doc Severinson</li>
<li>Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Orchestra (1981; written in 1971). For Barry Kilpatrick</li>
<li>Effie Suite (1960) for Tuba, Vibraphone, Piano and Drums. For Harvey Phillips</li>
<li>Fantasy for Piano and Wind Ensemble (1974). For Marian McPartland</li>
<li>Hardy Suite for Piano</li>
<li>Jazz Suite for Four Horns (1951). Four horns with harpsichord, guitar, bass, drums.</li>
<li>Octets (1939–41) Flute/Clarinet 2, oboe/English horn/, clarinet 1, bass clarinet, bassoon, harpsichord, bass, drums:
<ul><li>Bull Fiddle in a China Shop</li>
<li>The Children Met the Train</li>
<li>Concerning Etchings</li>
<li>Dance Man Buys a Farm</li>
<li>A Debutante's Diary</li>
<li>Her Old Man Was Suspicious</li>
<li>His First Long Pants</li>
<li>House Detective Registers</li>
<li>It's Silk, Feel It!</li>
<li>Jack, This Is My Husband</li>
<li>Kindergarten Flower Pageant</li>
<li>Little Girl Grows Up</li>
<li>Little White Samba</li>
<li>Neurotic Goldfish</li>
<li>She'll Be Seven in May</li>
<li>Such a Tender Night</li>
<li>Walking Home in Spring</li></ul></li>
<li>Seven Duets for Horn and Bassoon</li>
<li>Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1960). For Donald Sinta</li>
<li>Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano (1969). For George Roberts</li>
<li>Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1963). For Glenn Bower</li>
<li>Sonata for Euphonium and Piano (1968)</li>
<li>Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1963). For Joe Wilder</li>
<li>Sonata for Viola and Piano (1965)</li>
<li>Sonata-Fantasy for Piano</li>
<li>Suite for Flute and Marimba (1977)</li>
<li>Suite for String Bass and Guitar (1980)</li>
<li>Suite for Unaccompanied Flute (1975). For Virginia Nanzetta</li>
<li>Suites for Piano, Nos. 1 to 4</li>
<li>Suite No. 2 for Tenor Saxophone and Strings (1966). For <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Zoot_Sims" title="Zoot Sims">Zoot Sims</a>. [Margun]</li>
<li>Suites for Tuba and Piano:
<ul><li>Suite No. 1 (1960) for Harvey Phillips</li>
<li>Suite No. 2 (Jesse Suite)</li>
<li>Suite No. 3 (Suite for Little Harvey)</li>
<li>Suite No. 4 (Thomas Suite)</li></ul></li>
<li>Three Ballads for Stan [also exists in Wilder's piano reduction as Suite No. 1 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano] (1963). For Stan Getz. [Margun]</li>
<li>Twelve Duets for Horn and Bassoon</li>
<li>Twelve Mosaics for Piano</li>
<li>Un deuxième essai for Piano</li>
<li>Woodwind Quintets:
<ul><li>No. 1 (1954) For the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_York_Woodwind_Quintet" title="New York Woodwind Quintet">New York Woodwind Quintet</a></li>
<li>No. 2 (1956)</li>
<li>No. 3 (1958)</li>
<li>No. 4 (1959) For Bernard Garfield;</li>
<li>No. 5 (1959)</li>
<li>No. 6 (1960)</li>
<li>No. 7 (1964)</li>
<li>No. 8 (1966) [also known as 'Suite For Non-Voting Quintet']</li>
<li>No. 9 (1969)</li>
<li>No. 10 (ca. 1968)</li>
<li>No. 11 (1971) For John Barrows</li>
<li>No. 12 (1975) For the Wingra Quintet</li>
<li>No. 13</li></ul></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Alec_Wilder&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<p><i>Alec Wilder Octet</i> (Columbia, 1951)
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Albums_as_composer">Albums as composer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Alec_Wilder&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Albums as composer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bob_Brookmeyer" title="Bob Brookmeyer">Bob Brookmeyer</a></b>
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<ul><li><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/7_x_Wilder" title="7 x Wilder">7 x Wilder</a></i> (Verve, 1961)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jackie_Cain" title="Jackie Cain">Jackie Cain</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Roy_Kral" title="Roy Kral">Roy Kral</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>An Alec Wilder Collection</i> (Audiophile, 1990)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Meredith_D%E2%80%99Ambrosio" class="mw-redirect" title="Meredith D’Ambrosio">Meredith D’Ambrosio</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>Another Time</i> (Palo Alto, 1981)</li></ul>
<p><b>By Valerie Errante and Robert Wason</b>
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<ul><li><i>Songs of Alec Wilder</i> (Troy)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Eileen_Farrell" title="Eileen Farrell">Eileen Farrell</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>Eileen Farrell Sings Alec Wilder</i> (Reference)<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<p><b> By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ghost_Train_Orchestra" title="Ghost Train Orchestra">Ghost Train Orchestra</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>Book of Rhapsodies</i> (Accurate, 2013)</li>
<li><i>Book of Rhapsodies Vol. II</i> (Accurate, 2017)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Roland_Hanna" title="Roland Hanna">Roland Hanna</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>Roland Hanna Plays the Music of Alec Wilder</i> (Tokuma [Japan], 1978)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Vic_Juris" title="Vic Juris">Vic Juris</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>Music of Alec Wilder</i> (Double Time, 1996)</li></ul>
<p><b>By Bob Levy</b>
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<ul><li><i>Blackberry Winter: Songs by Alec Wilder</i> (Mark)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dave_Liebman" title="Dave Liebman">Dave Liebman</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>Lieb Plays Wilder</i> (Daybreak, 2003)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mundell_Lowe" title="Mundell Lowe">Mundell Lowe</a></b>
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<ul><li><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Music_of_Alec_Wilder" title="New Music of Alec Wilder">New Music of Alec Wilder</a></i> (Riverside, 1956)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Marian_McPartland" title="Marian McPartland">Marian McPartland</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>Marian McPartland Plays the Music of Alec Wilder</i> (Jazz Alliance)</li></ul>
<p><b>By John Noel Roberts</b>
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<ul><li><i>Alec Wilder: Music for Piano</i> (Albany TROY1294, 2024)</li></ul>
<p><b>By Diana Robinson</b>
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<ul><li><i>Music of Alec Wilder</i> (Multi Media Library)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bob_Rockwell" title="Bob Rockwell">Bob Rockwell</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>Bob’s Wilder</i> (Stunt, 2003)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ben_Sidran" title="Ben Sidran">Ben Sidran</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>Walk Pretty: The Songs of Alec Wilder</i> (Go Jazz, 2002)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a></b>
</p>
<ul><li><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frank_Sinatra_Conducts_the_Music_of_Alec_Wilder" title="Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder">Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder</a></i> (Columbia, 1946)</li></ul>
<p><b>By <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Marlene_VerPlanck" title="Marlene VerPlanck">Marlene VerPlanck</a></b>
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<ul><li><i>Marlene VerPlanck Sings Alec Wilder</i> (Audiophile)</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bowen, Glenn Hamel. "The Clarinet in the Chamber Music of Alec Wilder". (D.M.A. diss., Eastman School of Music, 1968), 2-3.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stone. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/alecwilderinspit00ston/page/146/mode/2up?q=%22Land+of+Oz%22">146</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stone. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/alecwilderinspit00ston/page/48/mode/2up?q=crossword+puzzles">166, 185, 207, 208, 251</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Slominsky, Nicolas (1988). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/concisebakersbio0000slon/page/1360/mode/2up?q=%223+children%27s+operas%22+1942">The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians</a></i>. New York: Schirmer Books. p. 1360. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-872411-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-872411-9">0-02-872411-9</a>.</span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Alec_Wilder&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<ul><li>Wilder, Alec, <i>American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950,</i> ed. James T. Maher. (New York: Oxford Press, 1972; paperback ed., Oxford Press, 1975), xxxix, 536 pp.</li>
<li>Wilder, Alec, David Demsey editor, <i>Letters I Never Mailed</i> Annotated Edition (University of Rochester Press, 2006).</li>
<li>Stone, Desmond, <i>Alec Wilder In Spite of Himself: A Life of the Composer</i> (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 244 pp.</li>
<li>Demsey, David and Ronald Prather, <i>Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography</i> (Greenwood Press, 1993) Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 45.</li>
<li>Zeltsman, Nancy, ed., <i>Alec Wilder: An Introduction to the Man and His Music</i> (Newton, MA: Margun Music, 1991).</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/acc/wilder.html">Alec Wilder page from Classical Net</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/wilder.html">Alec Wilder Collection 1939-2000, from The New York Public Library site</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928546/">Alec Wilder</a> at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/files/Alec-Wilder-Archive.pdf">Alec Wilder Archive at Eastman School of Music</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecwildercentennial.com">Alec Wilder Centennial site</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wilderworld.podomatic.com">100 records to celebrate 100 years of Alec Wilder...and more!</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/W.html">Opera Glass</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecwildermusicandlife.com/">Alec Wilder Music and Life</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wilderworld.podomatic.com/">Links to music and articles</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120926115532/http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C77?exhibitId=77">Alec Wilder exhibit at Songwriters Hall Of Fame</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artofsong.net/songs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=157:alec-wilder&catid=36:art-of-song-database-&Itemid=59#mce_temp_url%23">Alec Wilder at Art of Song</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archives.nypl.org/mus/23065">Alec Wilder papers, 1909-2000</a> Music Division, The New York Public Library.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/Alec+Wilder">Alec Wilder</a> discography at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Discogs" title="Discogs">Discogs</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928546/">Alec Wilder</a> at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/6192/">FAST</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://isni.org/isni/0000000083696541">ISNI</a></span></li>
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<ul><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://authority.bibsys.no/authority/rest/authorities/html/3007051">Norway</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://catalogo.bne.es/uhtbin/authoritybrowse.cgi?action=display&authority_id=XX943954">Spain</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14022017b">France</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14022017b">BnF data</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://d-nb.info/gnd/119150166">Germany</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Wilder, Alec <1907-1980>"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://opac.sbn.it/nome/IEIV033876">Italy</a></span></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://olduli.nli.org.il/F/?func=find-b&local_base=NLX10&find_code=UID&request=987007463187705171">Israel</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:au:finaf:000188510">Finland</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://opac.kbr.be/LIBRARY/doc/AUTHORITY/14248597">Belgium</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n50019273">United States</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kopkatalogs.lv/F?func=direct&local_base=lnc10&doc_number=000068733&P_CON_LNG=ENG">Latvia</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://aleph.nkp.cz/F/?func=find-c&local_base=aut&ccl_term=ica=xx0001289&CON_LNG=ENG">Czech Republic</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35840782">Australia</a></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://katalog.nsk.hr/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000226714&local_base=nsk10">Croatia</a></span></li>
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