Chloé Zhao
Chloé Zhao( born Zhao Ting; March 31, 1982) is a Chinese- American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Her debut feature film," Songs My Brothers Taught Me"( 2015), premiered at Sundance Film Festival.
Her second feature film," The Rider"( 2017), was critically acclaimed and received several accolades including nominations for Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Best Director.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák
( 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition.
Following the Romantic- era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana, Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia.
Dvořák's own style has been described as" the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them".
Dvořák displayed his musical gifts at an early age, being an apt violin student from age six.
The first public performances of his works were in Prague in 1872 and, with special success, in 1873, when he was aged 31.
Seeking recognition beyond the Prague area, he submitted a score of his First Symphony to a prize competition in Germany, but did not win, and the unreturned manuscript was lost until rediscovered many decades later.
In 1874 he made a submission to the Austrian State Prize for Composition, including scores of two further symphonies and other works.
Although Dvořák was not aware of it, Johannes Brahms was the leading member of the jury and was highly impressed.
The prize was awarded to Dvořák in 1874 and again in 1876 and in 1877, when Brahms and the prominent critic Eduard Hanslick, also a member of the jury, made themselves known to him.
Brahms recommended Dvořák to his publisher, Simrock, who soon afterward commissioned what became the" Slavonic Dances", Op. 46.
These were highly praised by the Berlin music critic Louis Ehlert in 1878, the sheet music( of the original piano 4- hands version) had excellent sales, and Dvořák's international reputation was launched at last.
Dvořák's first piece of a religious nature, his setting of Stabat Mater, was premiered in Prague in 1880.
It was very successfully performed in London in 1883, leading to many other performances in the United Kingdom and United States.
In his career, Dvořák made nine invited visits to England, often conducting performances of his own works.
His Seventh Symphony was written for London.
Visiting Russia in March 1890, he conducted concerts of his own music in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
In 1891 Dvořák was appointed as a professor at the Prague Conservatory.
In 1890 – 91, he wrote his" Dumky Trio", one of his most successful chamber music pieces.
In 1892, Dvořák moved to the United States and became the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City.
While in the United States, Dvořák wrote his two most successful orchestral works: the Symphony" From the New World", which spread his reputation worldwide, and his Cello Concerto, one of the most highly regarded of all cello concerti.
He also wrote his most appreciated piece of chamber music, the" American String Quartet", during this time.
But shortfalls in payment of his salary, along with increasing recognition in Europe and an onset of homesickness, led him to leave the United States and return to Bohemia in 1895.
All of Dvořák's nine operas but his first have librettos in Czech and were intended to convey Czech national spirit, as were some of his choral works.
By far the most successful of the operas is" Rusalka".
Among his smaller works, the seventh" Humoresque" and the song" Songs My Mother Taught Me" are also widely performed and recorded.
He has been described as" arguably the most versatile ... composer of his time".
James McMurtry
James McMurtry( born March 18, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American rock and folk rock/ americana singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, and occasional actor(" Daisy MillerLonesome Dove", and narrator of" Ghost Town: 24 Hours in Terlingua").
He performs with veteran bandmates Daren Hess, Cornbread, and Tim Holt.
His father, novelist Larry McMurtry, gave him his first guitar at age seven.
His mother, an English professor, taught him how to play it:" My mother taught me three chords and the rest I just stole as I went along.
I learned everything by ear or by watching people."
Adolf Heyduk
Adolf Heyduk (6 June 1835 – 6 February 1923) was a distinguished Czech poet and writer.
Many of his poems were later set to music by Antonín Dvořák.
The best known and most widely performed is the poignant and tender Songs
My Mother Taught Me with its hauntingly exquisite setting, included in the repertoire of many renowned instrumentalists and vocalists.
Songs My Mother Taught Me (Dvořák)
" Songs My Mother Taught Me" is a song for voice and piano written in 1880 by Antonín Dvořák.
It is the fourth of seven songs from his cycle" Gypsy Songs", B. 104, Op. 55.
The" Gypsy Songs" are set to poems by Adolf Heyduk in both Czech and German.
This song in particular has achieved widespread fame.
The song has been recorded by a number of well- known singers, including Gabriela Beňačková, Evan Williams, Gervase Elwes, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Jeanette MacDonald, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Victoria de los Angeles, Joan Sutherland, Paul Robeson, Frederica von Stade, Edita Gruberová, Angela Gheorghiu, Magdalena Kožená, and Renée Fleming.
The song is also featured on the album" Charlotte Church".
Fritz Kreisler transcribed the song for violin and piano and performed it frequently.
His transcription was first published in 1914.
Artists who have recorded instrumental versions of the song include Kreisler himself, Glenn Miller, Julian Lloyd Webber, Yo- Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, and Tine Thing Helseth.
The title" Songs My Mother Taught Me" has frequently been used by singers in recitals or on recital discs even when the song itself is not included in the recording.
Hermione (Hennessy) Ross
Hermione Ross( born 7 February 1966) is a British singer- songwriter and joint owner of H&I Music.
She is the daughter of Irish singer- songwriter Christie Hennessy.
Her debut album" Songs My Father Taught Me"( Warner Brothers Ireland) stayed at number one in the Irish indie charts for five weeks.
Songs My Mother Taught Me (Charles Ives song)
"Songs
My Mother Taught Me" is the title of a song for voice and piano, written by Charles Ives (S. 361, K. 6B21c) in 1895 and set to a poem by Adolf Heyduk.
Ives' song was written some fifteen years after Dvořák's setting of the same poem.
New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins used it for one of the dances he made in "Ives, Songs."
Evelyn Tooley Hunt
Evelyn Tooley Hunt( 1904 – 1997), also known as Tao- Li, was a poet who was famous for writing the poem" Taught Me Purple" which inspired the novel" The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
She also was one of the first Americans to use the Haiku poem style.
This is an example of the poem:
My mother taught me purple
Although she never wore it.
Wash- gray was her circle,
The tenement her orbit.
My mother taught me golden
And held me up to see it, Above the broken molding, Beyond the filthy street.
My mother reached for beauty And for it s lack she died, Who knew so much of duty
She could not teach me pride.
She was born in Hamburg, New York and graduated from William Smith College.
In 1961, she came out with her first poetry collection," Look Again, Adam" that received the Sidney Lanier Memorial Award of 1963.
Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown.
His music was largely ignored during his early life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years.
Later in life, the quality of his music was publicly recognized, and he came to be regarded as an "American original".
He was also among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatory elements, and quarter tones.
His experimentation foreshadowed many musical innovations that were later more widely adopted during the 20th century.
Hence, he is often regarded as the leading American composer of art music of the 20th century.
Sources of Ives' tonal imagery included hymn tunes and traditional songs; he also incorporated melodies of the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.

Question: What nationality is the composer of song Songs My Mother Taught Me (Charles Ives Song)?
Answer: American