Hagen, Daron

Daron Hagen,
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Name	Hagen, Daron Gender: M
Birthname	Daron Aric Hagen
born on	4 November 1961 at 21:50 (= 9:50 PM )
Place	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 43n02, 87w54
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source	From memory Rodden Rating A Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	12°30' 04°38 Asc. 01°15'

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Daron Hagen (2019)
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Biography

American composer, writer, artistic director, and filmmaker, whose memoir, Duet with the Past, was published in 2019. Hagen's music is essentially tonal, though serial, pitch class, and octatonic procedures are customarily used for psychologically and emotionally fraught passages.

Hagen began composing prolifically in 1974, when his older brother Kevin gave him a recording and score of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd. Two years later, at the age of fifteen, he conducted the premiere of his first orchestral work, a recording and score of which came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who enthusiastically urged Hagen to attend Juilliard to study with David Diamond.

In 2020–2021, Hagen debuted as a filmmaker, releasing his first opera-film entitled Orson Rehearsed, in which he explored Orson Welles' dying thoughts through words, images, and music. Hagen crafted the music (which combined live players with an extensive Electroacoustic soundscape) and libretto, shot over 30 hours of film, directed the staged iteration at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, Illinois (in a joint production of his own "New Mercury Collective" and the Chicago College of Performing Arts), and served as both film and soundtrack editor.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• associate relationship with Heaney, Seamus (born 13 April 1939). Notes: Creative collaborators

• friend relationship with Rorem, Ned (born 23 October 1923)

• (has as) teacher relationship with Foss, Lukas (born 15 August 1922)

Events

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1 March 2019 (Memoir, "Duet with the Past")
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes from the book Duet with the Past: A Composer's Memoir by Daron Hagen (McFarland, 2019), page 14:

"I arrived less than a year after the Other Daron's death. I, the second Daron Aric Hagen, was delivered of Gwen Leone Johnson (aged thirty-two years) and Earl Arthur Hagen (aged thirty-three) on 4 November 1961 at 9:50 p.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Milwaukee."

Categories

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Composer/ Arranger

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Song writer (Libretto)

• Vocation : Entertain/Business : Director (Film)

• Vocation : Entertain/Business : Production jobs (Film and soundtrack editor)

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer ("Duet with the Past")