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Bookmark or Share- The Willow Song from the Ballad of Baby Doe — HSOA student of Horatio Parker at Yale University and Vincent DʻIndy and Nadia Boulanger in Paris, Douglas Moore was an American composer known for opera's dealing with American folk themes, offering perspectives of rural pioneer life.
- Moore, Douglas - Milken Archive of Jewish MusicDouglas Moore is best known for his most successful opera, The Ballad of Baby Doe. Inspired by actual events that occurred in 19th-century Colorado, that opera launched the operatic career of American soprano Beverly Sills.
- Douglas Moore - usopera.comAn important figure in American musical education and the promotion of American music, Moore is one of the few American composers best known for his operas. His The Ballad of Baby Doe is, along with the similarly folk-influenced Susannah of Carlisle Floyd, one of only two American operas of its era to find a solid place in the operatic repertory.
- Douglas Stuart Moore | American Composer, Opera, Choral Music - BritannicaDouglas Stuart Moore was an American composer best known for his folk operas dealing with American themes, the most successful being The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956). He studied composition with Horatio Parker at Yale and with Vincent d’Indy and Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
- Douglas Stuart Moore - Encyclopedia.comDouglas Stuart Moore [1], 1893–1969, American composer and teacher, b. Cutchogue, N.Y. Moore studied with Horatio Parker [2], Vincent D'Indy [3], Nadia Boulanger [4], and Ernest Bloch [5]. In 1926 he joined the music faculty of Columbia Univ. and was its chairman from 1940 to 1962.
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