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Bruce Brubaker’s Guide to Alliterative Artists

February 23, 2009 by Bruce Brubaker

Last week, I had a meeting about a new project I’m planning with Meredith Monk. I guess that got me started…
Alvar Aalto
Béla Bartók
Caleb Carr, Colin Carr, Carl Craig, Claude Chabrol
Don DeLillo
Edward Elgar
Federico Fellini
Gérard Grisey, George Gershwin, George Grosz, Glenn Gould
Harry Houdini
Ippolitov-Ivanov (cheating I know, but his other names were Mikhail Mikhailovich)
Judith Jameson
Karl Kraus MMBB.jpg
Lowell Liebermann
Meredith Monk, Moritz Moszkowski, Marin Marais
Nicolas Nabokov
Otto Ortmann
Peter Pears
Roger Reynolds, Richard Rogers
Samuel Sanders
Tommy Tune, (and greetings to Terry Teachout)
Vladimir Viardo
Walt Whitman, William Walton

 

 

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Comments

  1. evan samuel says

    February 23, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    Fred Flintstone?

  2. Jerome Weeks says

    February 24, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    We’ve extended your list and even added twists to it:
    http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/02/23/alliterative-artists/

  3. Marc Ryser says

    March 2, 2009 at 9:31 am

    a few more, for fun…
    Benjamin Britten
    James Joyce
    Karla Kihlstedt
    Louis Lortie
    Steven Sondheim
    Sister Souljah
    Tom Toles

  4. Katie DeBonville says

    March 3, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    Sanford Sylvan, David Deveau, and Mark Morris also make the list!

  5. Roberto Poli says

    March 8, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    Always prone to exaggerations, I have a triple: Pier Paolo Pasolini.

  6. Eugene Kaminsky says

    March 9, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Few more:
    Boris Berman
    Modest Musorgsky
    Marcel Marceau
    Peter Pears
    Anton Arensky
    Karl Klindworth
    Joseph Joachim
    Adolphe Adam
    Paul Pabst

  7. Marc Ryser says

    March 11, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    And, um,
    Bruce Brubaker…
    SAmuel SAnders is a “degree 2” alliteration
    BRUce BRUbaker, “degree 3”
    Marcel Marceau takes the cake, so far, at degree 5
    A rarer type would be:
    El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky)
    whose more commonly known name starts with the “name” of the first letter of his last name…

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