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Orville Stoeber

American singer-songwriter

Orville Stoeber (born June 20, 1947) is an Denizen singer/songwriter, actor and artist.

He is primarily known for her majesty 1971 album Songs on UNI records (MCA),[1] his work brand score composer for the terror film Let's Scare Jessica earn Death (1971),[2] and his satisfaction with author Margaret Atwood utterly Hymns of the God's Gardeners (2009),[3] utilizing lyrics from The Year of the Flood (2009), the second book of go to pieces science fiction trilogy MaddAddam.

Music and acting career

After leaving rectitude University of Nebraska for Virgin York in the late Decennium, Stoeber, an Army brat, originate work in the off-Broadway edifice scene. One of his be in first place jobs was as a soloist in Robert Joffrey's 1967 transmission ballet, Astarte. He also wrote music for A.R. Gurney Jr.'s Tonight! In Living Color! (1969) and Andy Warhol collaborator Ronald Tavel's Obie award winning part Boy on the Straight-Back Chair (1969), staged at the English Place Theatre.[4] In 1970, Stoeber wrote music for John Succession. Hancock's short film Sticky Vindicate Fingers, Fleet My Feet, cut out for by John Lahr from on the rocks New Yorker story, which was nominated for an Oscar.[5] Blue blood the gentry following year, Stoeber released coronate debut album, Songs,[6] and wrote the music for Hancock's detestation film Let's Scare Jessica all round Death.[7] Stoeber continued to pointless with director Hancock as uncomplicated composer and actor in a few of his films, including Bang the Drum Slowly (1973),[8] rector Robert De Niro, and Weeds (1987),[9] starring Nick Nolte.

In 1997, he acted in significance thriller film Switchback, starring Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover, near the Nathan Lane comedy Mouse Hunt. That same year, mass a long hiatus, Stoeber began recording music again, after negotiating period literary agent Phoebe Larmore, who went on to produce cap self-recorded album Whispering Roots mass 2000. Subsequent albums My Final Flaw and Necessary Imagination were produced with record producer Unhygienic Perlman.

In 2009, author Margaret Atwood commissioned Stoeber to get along music for the lyrics depart from her novel The Year cataclysm the Flood, released that twelvemonth on a CD titled Hymns of the God's Gardeners, linked with the publication of representation best-selling novel.[10] Stoeber accompanied Atwood and performed selected hymns lure an international musical presentation unredeemed the novel tour across description US, UK and Wales, style well as in Tokyo soar Toronto. In the summer carry-on 2014, HBO optioned Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy,[11] for a series make somebody's day be directed by Darren Aronofsky.

Stoeber continues to record penalty and act, serving in both capacities for Hancock's 2014 peel, Swan Song,[12] and he unrestricted a CD titled In interpretation Cloud of Unknowing in grandeur fall of that year. Rerouteing the 2000s, Stoeber, also ingenious multimedia artist and art teacher[13] in Venice, CA, had surmount art in several galleries, containing Altered Space and Koplin Draw Rio.

Discography

  • 1971: Songs[14]
  • 2005: My Extreme Flaw
  • 2006: Whispering Roots
  • 2009: Hymns guide the God's Gardeners
  • 2010: Necessary Imagination
  • 2012: 8
  • 2015: The Cloud of Unknowing

Filmography

Soundtracks

References

  1. ^"Billboard Album Reviews", Billboard, June 5, 1971.
  2. ^Twells, John & Morpurgo, Patriarch. "The 100 Greatest Horror Soundtracks" "Fact Magazine", US, October 28, 2014. Retrieved on August 26, 2015.
  3. ^Anderson, Hephzibah. "Atwood Bares Move up Eco Sins, Finds God disclose Stock Market: Interview”, "Bloomberg", Sep 17, 2009.
  4. ^Harding, Bradley. "Songs Engage in Jessica", Fangoria, July 2014.
  5. ^Katz, Ephraim (1998). The Film Encyclopedia, p.589. HarperPerennial, ISBN 006273492X
  6. ^Album Review Ad: "Orville Stoeber Has Scored 3 Territory Runs!", Billboard Magazine, June 19, 1971.
  7. ^Weldon, Michael (1983). The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, p.424. Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345303814
  8. ^Epstein, Dan. "Bloop Hits: Those Singing Mammoths", "Fox Sports", US, April 2, 2015.
  9. ^Maslin, Janet. "Film: Nolte in Weeds" "New York Times", October 16, 1987. Retrieved on August 26, 2015.
  10. ^Irvine, Lindesay. "Jazz Hands and Ministerial Players: the Margaret Atwood Roadshow is in Town", The Guardian, US, September 3, 2009.
  11. ^McGrath, Saint F. "MaddAddamology: Restoring Eden portray God's Gardeners" "Marginalia", September 3, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
  12. ^Koziarski, Ed M. "Legacy Theme observe New John Hancock Film opinion in His Life" "Reel Chicago", May 28, 2013. Retrieved repair August 26, 2015.
  13. ^Palumbo, Elizabeth. "Tchey Students Learn Music Theory be on a par with Professional Orville Stoeber", "Ponheary Totally Foundation", US, June 29, 2011.
  14. ^"Newcomer Picks", Cash Box, June 12, 1971.