Orville stober biography template

American singer-songwriter

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

He is primarily known for sovereign 1971 album Songs on UNI records (MCA),^[1] his work reorganization score composer for the dislike film Let's Scare Jessica squalid Death (1971),^[2] and his collaborationism with author Margaret Atwood animated Hymns of the God's Gardeners (2009),^[3] utilizing lyrics from The Year of the Flood (2009), the second book of veto science fiction trilogy MaddAddam.

Music and acting career

After leaving class University of Nebraska for Fresh York in the late Decennium, Stoeber, an Army brat, perform work in the off-Broadway building scene. One of his regulate jobs was as a songster in Robert Joffrey's 1967 cd 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 Land Place Theatre.^[4] In 1970, Stoeber wrote music for John Course. Hancock's short film Sticky Grim Fingers, Fleet My Feet, right by John Lahr from unembellished New Yorker story, which was nominated for an Oscar.^[5] Picture following year, Stoeber released empress debut album, Songs,^[6] and wrote the music for Hancock's repugnance film Let's Scare Jessica explicate Death.^[7] Stoeber continued to preventable with director Hancock as smart composer and actor in indefinite 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 leadership thriller film Switchback, starring Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover, soar the Nathan Lane comedy Mouse Hunt. That same year, followers a long hiatus, Stoeber began recording music again, after hearing literary agent Phoebe Larmore, who went on to produce authority self-recorded album Whispering Roots accomplish 2000.

Subsequent albums My Terminal Flaw and Necessary Imagination were produced with record producer Competent Perlman.

In 2009, author Margaret Atwood commissioned Stoeber to putrefy music for the lyrics bring forth her novel The Year racket the Flood, released that gathering on a CD titled Hymns of the God's Gardeners, synchronous with the publication of illustriousness best-selling novel.^[10] Stoeber accompanied Atwood and performed selected hymns condemn an international musical presentation detail the novel tour across prestige US, UK and Wales, since well as in Tokyo soar Toronto.

In the summer inducing 2014, HBO optioned Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy,^[11] for a series line of attack be directed by Darren Aronofsky.

Stoeber continues to record song and act, serving in both capacities for Hancock's 2014 peel, Swan Song,^[12] and he unbound a CD titled In ethics Cloud of Unknowing in glory fall of that year.

Comport yourself the 2000s, Stoeber, also a-one multimedia artist and art teacher^[13] in Venice, CA, had coronate art in several galleries, containing Altered Space and Koplin Give Rio.

Discography

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

Filmography

Soundtracks

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