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The Role of Women in the Growth of the Alexander Community (eBook)by Alexander MurrayAll books | Summary | Reviews | Data Biographical Note Alexander D. Murray’s experience of the Alexander Technique began in 1955 with Charles Neil and continued after Neil’s death, in 1958, with Walter Carrington. With his wife Joan, Alex spent nine years working with Walter Carrington, who was F.M. Alexander’s principal assistant at the time of his death in 1955. The Murrays worked with and were friends of many other first-generation teachers, including Marjorie Barstow, Dilys Carrington, Frank and Helen Jones, Patrick Macdonald, John Skinner, Peter Scott, Tony Spawforth, Richard and Elizabeth Walker, Lulie Westfeldt, Kitty Wielopolska, and Peggy Williams. Alex and Joan met Professor Raymond Dart in 1967. He cooperated and inspired their ongoing investigation into human developmental movement as it relates to the Alexander Technique. They developed the Dart Procedures, an innovative process that influences Alexander Technique teaching throughout the world. Since 1977, the Murrays have been the co-directors and principal teachers at the Alexander Technique Center Urbana. Alex was principal flute with the Covent Garden Opera and the London Symphony Orchestra and is the inventor of the Murray Flute. He has taught at the Royal College, Royal Academy, and Royal Northern College in England; the Royal Dutch Conservatory; Michigan State University; and the National Music Camp at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. From 1977 until his retirement in 2002, he was professor of flute at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He is the recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Flute Association. |
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