Researching Joel Thome
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 29 people with the Thome surname? In that year Thome was ranked number 3550 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Joel means "the Lord is willing" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Joel Thome on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Joel Thome and the Thome Genealogy
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Joel Thome
Joel Thome (born in Detroit, Michigan) is the conductor and artistic director of Orchestra of Our Time. A Grammy Award recipient, Thome has been acclaimed internationally as an accomplished conductor and composer of classical and contemporary orchestral music, as well as a strikingly effective conductor of opera and other music/theater works. His conducting credits include many prominent and international orchestras. He has worked with such noted artists as pianists Vladimir Feltsman and Lorin Hollander, violinist Jaime Laredo, Metropolitan Opera singers Florence Quivar and Roberta Alexander. His modern opera performances include the Weill/Brecht Threepenny Opera with the Opera Company of Boston and the Thomson/Stein Four Saints in Three Acts at Carnegie Hall.For thirteen years, Thome led the National Symphonic Orchestra of Mexico in concerts of classical and contemporary works. He has also conducted the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Group L'Itineraire in Paris, Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Orquestra Municipal of Caracas and the Milwaukee Symphony, and has been a regular guest conductor of the Monday Evening Concert Series in Los Angeles.
A composer and conductor of many disciplines, Thome conceived and conducted Zappa's Universe at the Ritz Theatre in New York City, and provided critically acclaimed arrangements of Frank Zappa's wide ranging repertoire for symphony orchestra, rock musicians, classical soloists and a capella singers. Thome's Polygram/Verve recording of Zappa's Universe received a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental in 1994. Thome conducted a sold-out program of the Music of Frank Zappa and Edgard Varèse at the Great Performers Series in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, and conducted the Seattle and Oregon Symphony Orchestras in An Evening of the Music of Frank Zappa.
Thome as served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Mexican Institute for Culture in New York, Erick Hawkins Foundation for Modern Dance, and on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function. His collaborations with visual artists include Alexander Calder, Françoise Gilot, David Hockney and Red Grooms. He has also collaborated with film-maker Robert Fulton, and choreographer, Anna Sokolow. Thome has held a number of prestigious positions in academe and for some years was Head of Music at Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently Professor of Composition at SUNY Purchase where he has taught, among others, electronic composer and musician Dan Deacon.
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